Popping Up

Hey there!  I'm just popping my head up for a minute to let you know I'm still above the dirt.  I'm just exhausted.  

Lots of drama going on at work, but I don't feel like talking about it -- other than to say my stalker has suddenly decided that going to the bathroom up in the front office, you know, where he works, isn't good enough for him, so now he's got to walk all the way out onto the shop floor and go to the one right beside...you guessed it, sub-brazing. 

Oh, boy...

On to better news, look what else is popping up in my back yard!

Those, my friends, are daffodils!  And then there is this:

The purple deadnettle is starting to bloom.  Spring is on the way.  I have mixed feelings about this, because to me, spring means summer, and summer means 95 in my work area.  

Funny thing is, I got home from work one day earlier this week, and the realtor was showing the house next door.  My first thought was, "Oh, no!  I have to go fill my bird feeders.  I hope they don't see me and try to come over and talk!"  Then I remembered, I have a privacy fence!  So, I stepped boldly out into my own back yard and filled the feeder completely un-harassed.  

I really need to get the surveyor out here to mark my property lines and get the other side done.  I found what I believe to be the property marker in what would be the Northeast corner of my lot, and if it is, the side fence is fine, but it looks like the back fence would be just a few inches over onto the other lot.  I'm definitely going to want to make sure when I replace it that the entire fence is on my side. 

Here's the weird thing.  In a way, I feel guilty for wanting a privacy fence.  Why?  I don't know, but it's like I'm mentally accusing myself of being un-neighborly.  Oh, well, it is what it is, and the fence is going up. 

Alas, that's going to require a phone call, and that's something I just don't have the energy for right now.  I need to make a few phone calls, but that's really beyond me at the moment.  Some days when I get home, I'm so exhausted all I can do is sit limply in the chair until it's time for bed.  Which it almost is right now. 

Just so this post isn't a total loss, here is a progress photo of my latest hat. 

 I was so tired when I took it that I didn't even pose the hat on my chair. I just left it sitting on top of my laptop, beside the glasses I wasn't wearing because I was too weary to put them on. 

Now I'm going to go put this weary body into bed. 

Goodnight.