Gardening

Whew!  Got it all planted...only took 3 1/2 hours!!!  Would have been longer without Grace's help!  We already have Irises, Daffodils, Tulips, and Hyacinths.  Planted Morning Glories (4 kinds), Marigolds (3 kinds), Sunflowers (2 kinds), Gladiolus, Dianthus, Cannas, Impatiens, 4 O'clocks, Larkspur, Lavender, Delphinium, Alyssum (2 colors), Verbena (2 colors), Zinnias, Snapdragons, one Peony, and one Daylily!!!  We have to wait until next month to plant the Hibiscus if we want a decent bloom for this year.  So glad it's all in....but I'm exhausted and every bone & muscle in my body hurts!!!  Tommorow I will hurt worse!  Looking forward to that....not so much!! 

Living in Oregon, OH

We love living here.  It's a small community, relatively safe from major crime (as much as it can be in today's world), and close enough to a large city so we have pretty much everything we want nearby.

And then there's the weather.  We have normal Ohio weather, like any other city/town near us, except I'm beginning to think Oregon is a tornado magnet.  Wednesday night we had a second tornado touch down in the course of a year!  The one last summer took out a local high school and a couple people were killed.  That one was 6 miles from my house.  The one on Wednesday was not as bad, luckily no one was injured, but there were several trees down and some houses were damaged pretty badly.  It was maybe 8-10 miles from my house.  Both times, little Oregon, OH made national news (at least on the Weather Channel)!  I'm growing a little concerned!  It's not like we are a community of trailer parks that tornados seem to love - in fact, I can't think of a single one in Oregon!!  One last summer, one this April....and we aren't even into storm season yet for this year!!  I know Oregon starts with an O, but hey, Mother Nature....in case you're confused, Oklahoma (which IS in "Tornado alley") is WAY south of here!!!  Not that I'm wishing tornados on anybody.....I just really don't want anymore this close to my home!!

Multi-tasking

A friend's recent Facebook post made me start thinking about this.

As a mother, I am not just Mom but also a chef, a chauffeur, a housekeeper, a teacher, a nurse, a confidante, a friend, a handyman, Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, and a personal shopper.

As a vet tech, I am not only a nurse, but a phlebotomist, a dental hygienist, a lab tech, an x-ray tech, a grief counselor, a pharmacy tech, and an educator.

No wonder God made women to be mothers, and why there are so few male veterinary technicians!!

Flowers

I am completely baffled as my flowers are starting to bloom this spring.  The fall that we first lived here, I planted daffodils along one wall of my fenced-in patio.  I planted classic yellow ones and white ones with pink centers.  The following spring, when they bloomed, those were exactly the colors I got.  The next year, come spring when they bloomed, I had maybe only 2 or 3 yellow flowers and the rest were white with pinkish-orange centers.  I thought "cool - I made hybrids"!  ( I had piggy-backed the bulbs, so this wasn't too surprising.)  Now it's spring again and they're starting to bloom.  Every one of them...classic yellow!!  Not a white one among them!  Granted, I'm somewhat new to the gardening thing....but this has me stymied!!  I will say, after last years odd colored ones, I'm glad I didn't change my irises!!  I had considered interspersing my purple ones with the rust color ones that I think are gorgeous.  But if they were to mix colors like my daffodils did last year....I'd end up with mud-colored irises - yuck!!!  Wonder how my tulips will look this year.....I planted a bunch of different colors of those that first fall!!

Basketball

March Madness, The Final Four......could NOT care less!!  There are so many sports-only channels.....why must my local networks broadcast all these games???  Are they NOT aware that some of us don't give a frog's fat ass about these games??  With my cable, I get easily 8 or 9 strictly sports channels (which- oh guess what....I don't watch), and then there are probably 6 or 7 pay-per-view sports channels!  With all of these options available, why must basketball pre-empt the shows I want to watch on network TV????  College football doesn't get this coverage....neither does pro football (like I care)....even the Superbowl is only covered on ONE network channel!!  But, March Madness.....unless you're watching lame Lifetime movies or Animal Planet.....you are stuck with who-the-hell-cares basketball!!!  God forbid there ever is anything like March Madness for golf......suicide rates will skyrocket!!