Another Exciting Day At Home ... Woohoo!!

My plans to get out were waylaid yesterday by a number of things.  My weeds are in desperate need of spraying before they take over my house and yard completely.  Yes, that's the job of the gardeners, but alas, I don't know how to say ROUNDUP in Spanish, or HEY you're supposed to pull those weeds.  I did do a lot of pointing, but it didn't help.  I ended up doing it myself by hand.

One thing you cannot do is spray when there is a breeze.  Lucky for us, there has been a nice cool breeze every morning and most of the day, meaning most of my weeds await.

Instead, I'm trying to clean out every room in the house.  I started with the smallest of course.  You literally could not walk through this room for the piles of junk.  I really tried not to play musical chairs with the "stuff" and disposed of everything I could.  

I even cleaned out one entire shelf where I stashed my hoarding load of paper towels, all six rolls.  I was so proud until I realized my crock pot was sitting on the kitchen counter.  It lives where the rolls were residing.  I spent another thirty minutes trying to fit everything in.

Really, this staying home stuff is NOT fun.  So in other news, have you realized that we used to watch the completely impartial news (like Walter Cronkite for example) and then make our own decisions?  Now it seems they give us THEIR opinion of the news and we are supposed to believe every word without question.  Here's an example of their handiwork.

The image on the right is from the New York Post talking about Jacksonville Beach in Florida, a trustworthy newspaper, right?  The image on the left is from Newsbreak.com discussing Los Angeles.  Which one do you think is correct?  I guess it doesn't matter if you don't tell the truth with pictures, which are exactly the same one.  I just get a kick out of stuff like this.

There was some very good news however, when I balanced my checkbook.  Being an accountant, I really have to do that once in awhile.  Every April I get a cost of living raise in my retirement check.  It's one of the benefits of having worked for the County for 25 years.  

Of course they did away with that for anyone who was hired after me.  If you came onboard after something like 1980, you get nothing, making it hard to live on your unchanging income as prices skyrocket.  I'm a very lucky girl and I know it.  That extra $150 a month will come in handy.

I did get out long enough to see the farmers in this area planting crops like sweet potatoes and tomatoes, so at least there will be food on our tables.  I see some Governors are trying to keep their states locked down for another month so they can get more federal money.  It's sad there is always an agenda.  

Anyone seen a politician with unkempt hair lately??  They opened up Veterinarian offices and pet store dog grooming here.  Woohoo!!  Maybe we can talk them into haircuts.

So for dinner I finished off the first rack of ribs.  The Sheriff has about a dozen 30 gallon steel cans with holes cut in the top and sides.  He skewers the ribs and places them inside the barrel with mesquite chunks of charcoal burning at the very bottom.  It's a sight to see the smoke rolling up out of all those barrels at once.  The end result is divine.

And so another day has passed.  I hope y'all are not going crazy being locked up.  Congrats to everyone brave enough to fight and to those who are opening up their restaurants.  By the way, Tombstone has said they will be open for business starting this week.  If you're in the neighborhood, give them a shout out.