And Another One

bites the dust, if anyone remembers that song.  In this case, it's another car.  I was running an errand in my parents spare car and it threw a piston rod(ironically, it's the car my youngest brother was using to get to work lately) effectively killing the car.  So now there are two dead and one unreliable cars sitting around. Sigh...
Making it tricky for said brother to get to work now, been asking us for rides(sad to say I haven't had a good nights sleep this week).  But hopefully they get a new one closer to home so it doesn't require an hour round trip drive at 1:40 in the morning.
School's back in, so I'm looking for sub jobs to fit into my regular job's work schedule.  Had one for today that got cancelled(sigh).  Found another but not for two weeks.  Need to check again.
Finally getting tomatoes, mainly roma's that have grown a bit bigger than normal so they look like hearts.  Squash have kind of stalled, though there's plenty of blossoms and unripe ones.  Not sure when the melon will be ready...
Things are cooling down temperature wise now, so I'm not quite as concerned about getting out to weed as early(still try for before 10 am though).  But getting harder to find ones I can get out all the way.  Keep finding weeds that break off right at the dirt so I can't get the root. Gr.
Work's picking up too, so I'll get plenty of hours there.  Holidays always do that...

Annoying Things...

There have been a few things bugging me lately, so I'm going to start a list of them here.
1.On days when I can sleep in, I get up early.
2. On days where I shouldn't sleep in, I have a hard time getting up.
3. when pulling weeds in the garden I'm careful and a little slow because I don't want to damage or uproot a plant on accident.
4. When pulling weeds in a non planted area(that I think I can just go all out on)I have to be careful and slow because the stupid weeds are so small and/or pathetic I can't just yank randomly.
5. How the first 20-30 minutes of weeding go by fast, then the next part goes so slow despite constant efforts to not watch the clock.
6. Paperwork, for anything.  I swear it always seems to be a little at first then has doubled or more before I get it all done.
7. when it gets close to fall but it stays hot regardless.
There's probably more, but those were bugging me the most.  Granted, there's more that don't bug me, but this was fun.
Entered a photo in the county fair, hope to see how it did today sometime.

AARRGGHH!!

First we have the deer problem(where they come and munch on the plants and maybe the produce, thereby killing it)that thanks to a suggestion I've managed to solve.  Now the stupid birds are at it?  Sheesh.  Had two or three tomatoes about ready to harvest yesterday.  Came out today and there was a huge hole in all of them! 
I suppose I should be glad they're leaving the squash alone, but the tomatoes were looking so good!  At least the peppers are thriving and the grasshoppers seem to be leaving them alone.  But I still need to thin them out(all have three or more WAY too close together) so they can really grow.
Stupid Blackberry bushes won't give up either, though they're small enough that I don't have thorns out to suck my blood when I pull them.  but I have to keep at them or they do get big enough for that.  Worse than the morning glory in my opinion.  And those stupid sticker weeds....
Sigh, how to deter the birds....

Getting Out

of the world is something I think everyone needs to do once in a while.  Part of the reason my family likes going up to a trailer every years is because it's disconnected from the internet, cell service, and doesn't have a phone. So we don't have to worry about anyone bothering us for as long as we stay there.
I just got back from a YSA trip with the same goal and it was awesome.  Had several speakers like John Bytheway(who was funny and spiritual) Paul Cardal(who I didn't know had heart problems from birth and even had a heart transplant in his 30's) T. C. Christensen (He described a rather unexpected encounter with deer outside a wolf trailer during the filming of 17 Miracles) and more.  Ran out of paper to takes notes, but I tried to remember what they all said.
Service project was fun and yet slippery, as we were widening a newly created trail.  Took over an hour and we still didn't finish(and my group was the last of four that day).  but we got a lot done. And had fun.
Not that being home is bad, it just means I get junk emails and random texts aside from work and family stuff which I have to get rid of everyday.  Can't have one without the other I guess...