Vacation!

Just for one day, though.  Well, and Saturday, because if you take a vacation day on Friday, you get to be off on Saturday, too.  I'm thinking I might make it up to the farmer's market this weekend.   I was going to go up to Batesville to look at tillers, but while I was browsing Amazon this afternoon, I found one I really liked, and it was marked down 20%.

I'm not sure if it really was, or if they just said it was to entice you to buy stuff, but it was a good price -- at least I think so -- and it got very good reviews.  It's a corded electric, so it'll be quiet and lightweight, which is definitely a plus at my age.   It's supposed to get here the middle of next week, so maybe it'll dry out enough for me to use it by then. 

I think I may try to mow sometime this weekend, too, even if I have to strap pontoons to my lawnmower.  I swan, the grass in my back yard is nearly waist high.  It's rained so much, I haven't been able to mow it but once this year.  The front isn't much better, either.  

Oh, do you want to know how much rain we've gotten lately?  We're 9 1/2 " above normal for the year.  Here, let me put that into perspective for you. This trough was slap empty two weeks ago. 

 I haven't added any water to it.  That's all rain.  And that's ground ivy growing out of control because I haven't been able to mow. 

It's got to stop raining sometime, right?  

Right???

In other news, they started the bag checks at work this morning, which was a basically a big nothing-burger.  I set my clear backpack down on the table, opened my cooler so the security guard could check inside, and he said I was all good.  Didn't even look in my backpack, so he didn't even see the illegal cup of coffee I had stashed in there. 

I went on into my work area, and quipped to a coworker, "Do you feel safer now that I've had a security guard check my cottage cheese?"  

Moving right along... the last thing on my to do list for the weekend is to get the final snake tank cleaned out since my bedding arrived yesterday.  The first thing on my to do list is to sleep past 3:30 -- provided the cat ceases her endless yowling long enough for me to do so.  

For now, I'm going to get off of here and knit a bit more on the baby surprise jacket.  

Laters.