There has seemed to be a streak of bad luck for a lot of people lately.  There also has been a lot of support that I am certainly appreciative of. 

Several weeks ago, I suggested a "no whine Wednesday". Maybe we can add a "tickler Thursday" or a "funny Friday", tell a joke, post a funny, something to make smile. 

On a happy note, American Goldfinches have returned to my yard. They were absent for quite some time but I'm hoping they are back to stay.  

BYFM-

Did you tell him you have a sickness? Called Chickenmath? Tell him it is contagious, and he is lucky he seems to be immune? 

Really hard to be sneaky when they have to be in a brooder with a heat source...hey! You mean he would notice? 

You cant have them on the kitchen table for weeks before he says, "where did these come from?" and you can say, "those have BEEN here"...and roll your eyes?  

Or do the whole, "Um, I CAN'T have more?" "should I call you 'Dad'? Because we are Partners, not parent/child, so telling me I CANT, well, that really makes me feel like a child and you are an adult...so by saying I can't- well, Im just going to HAVE to go get more now,......teenage rebellion, you know....."

not that I have done any of that of course.. 

Forget paint, I was thinking round-up, see how the city likes that  no more grass or weeds to mow

Looking at the radar.....looks like the rain is breaking up in the last 3 miles over the lake before it hits land where I'm at.    I hope it' just the leading edge that does that and we get some good stuff that pushes through.  On Tuesday is split and went around us.  We got to hear the thunder to the north and south, and then the cells merged back together east of us.  Ooooooh we need rain!!!

Several years ago I had planted 6 flowers around my mailbox. Around this same time I had been complaining about a very large tree that supposedly belonged to the city because it was on the opposite side of the sidewalk. It was rubbing on our house and had killed some of the roofing material. No one came out to do anything yet they gave me a $225 ticket for the flowers. I went to court over it because it didn't make sense to me that they would complain about a few flowers, on my side of the sidewalk on the edge of MY yard but they wouldn't take care of their ****** tree that was ruining our house. I won but two years later when we sold the house that tree still hadn't been taken care of. Two years ago a tornado came through and the winds knocked that tree over, straight into what was our bedroom and they had to rebuild that whole upstairs corner.

This is the only thing I hate about small towns and the reason why I'm glad we live outside of town.

Who "they" had tto rebuild (pay) ?

It is going too far.  The ordinance states that anything, anywhere over 6" is ticketable so that includes gardens and edging around fences/posts.  I wouldn't even have weeds if the railroad trimmed their property like they are supposed to but they don't get ticketed.  This town goes too far with everything.  I wasn't even moved in when they stopped by about my dogs (pitbulls) which were there while we were painting and cleaning.  Can't even park in the street without a permit and cars must be parked in the driveway not on the lawn ever!

And my taxes, $2000 a year and I paid $14,500 for my house last March!!!!!!!  Fire everyone and let us be!

Rant over

How does one grow a garden in such a town?

I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. It has like a 70 % chance!

Doesn't ??????

There has seemed to be a streak of bad luck for a lot of people lately.  There also has been a lot of support that I am certainly appreciative of. 

Several weeks ago, I suggested a "no whine Wednesday". Maybe we can add a "tickler Thursday" or a "funny Friday", tell a joke, post a funny, something to make smile. 

On a happy note, American Goldfinches have returned to my yard. They were absent for quite some time but I'm hoping they are back to stay.  

Would they not spread seeds? Oh no !!!!

What  is 50/50 hay?