so far it has been

108 days
1445 hours

4:30 am really really hurt this morning.

1 freeking day left.

 

one of the Aunties

 

One of the distant cousins from Washington emailed this picture to me ... she was attempting to identify if it was Aunt Minnie or Aunt Esther ...

 

I don't remember Aunt Esther very well (if at all) ... but oh  --- we had many adventures at/with Aunt Minnie! 

 

 

 

here's another picture ... there were 10 Fischer sisters ...

 

Martha, Minna, Bernice, Sophie, Esther, Irene, Marie, Louise, Emma and Bertha  -- I may have these mixed up with the Dranttel sisters ..  ? 

 and 2 brothers - Martin & Albert ...

 

 

and the other side --- Marion, Carol, Bernice, Margaret Anne, Florence, Donald, George, Marvin -- John  and ??? 

 

 

(( sigh ))

   days peeps days

   but before then -- I woke up to did I ????

   1) finish payroll -- not yet
   2) finish payroll taxes -- not yet
   3) food, what is food

   so since 4:50 am, I've finished the last payroll for tomorrow, paid 8 more sets of payroll taxes, had coffee and delivered the curbie to the curb. 

   because -- dang it -- I pay to have that trash picked up and I am not going to miss a pickup.  I know I need to get a freeking life.

   sunrise is breaking and it appears to be fabulous so -- my coffee and I are headed out to watch it.



 

one more Saturday

well, I'm not a runner -- probably never going to be a runner ...

but I know 4:45am.  damn, I  know 4:45 am.  in my world it's more like 4:05 am.  and I don't need an alarm clock to get my tired bones out of bed and southbound for the office.

one more Saturday after today ... one more Saturday after today.

I think we're going to make it ...
just maybe
perhaps we'll sneak it in ..




 

oh crap

  ... or "holy crap" it's Thursday already.  time flies.  quickly, oh, so quickly.  

     The piles are not dwindling fast enough around here.  I find that terribly frightening.  Piles, I really don't like the piles.


   this too shall pass ...




 

on the first day of 70'

 

I found Ruby in her temporary parking spot.

A little dusty -- but safe from the weather.

 

 

elder #1 was out in his tractor -- disking around the perimeter of the farm(s) .. pushing pack dead trees and such ...

 

notice the dust.

 

 

I wasn't feeling well, so I left the office at 3:00pm with a box of work ... stopped at the scrap shack to check in with the super scrappers and took the field road home.  my kind of heaven -- a dirt road headed to no where.  When I got home I hopped on the Viking and took a little ride with my camera. 

 

It was a day of executive decisions -- I am after all a Diva and am allowed to wave my magic wand and declare the state of being.  arrogant.  I know.

 

We will get done what we get done.

We won't kill ourselves over idiots who procrastinate.

 

Happy Sunday!

 

Saturday nights on 3rd Street

 Since I don't have a camera .... or a camera with batteries ... here's a virtual snapshot of my desk ...

 -- empty take out food containers .. chix strips from the deli
 -- a pile of completed tax returns
 -- two monitors ..
 -- a pile of Kleenex ready for use
 -- an adding machine in need of paper tape
 -- an empty coffee cup
 -- a dirty keyboard (might need more batteries soon)

 -- piles on the floor to the left of me
 -- piles on the table in the bay window
 -- piles on the chair next to the tv

 -- space heater running in the corner
       (got really cold in here with the overly gusty north winds)

 -- phone plugged into charger

 -- overflowing shred trash box
 -- overflowing recycling trash box
 -- overflowing trash bin

it could be declared a federal disaster area ...
16 days and 15 nights peeps ...

if the body holds out we might just make it.
if  if  if