Good Afternoon All! Or Night. Or whatever the Hell the time is!!
Well, this is going to be a whole bunch of ramblings today. I have lots of things on my mind today so I am just gonna ramble. Feel free to ignore this page. Those of you that know me know how I am!!

Today was an awful day. I had to go to a Memorial Service for a very dear friend. Jim was only 70 but was one of the funniest and caring men I have ever known. His passing was very fast. He was diagnosed in October with lung cancer and we knew that he was declining fast but never expected it too happen this fast. Gregg had been going over to see him and was even going to go last Sunday. We got the call Friday night that he had passed. Gregg and he have been friends for 30 years or so. As a matter of fact, Jim got Gregg his job back in 1985. Gregg is still there but Jim retired. This man will be deeply missed by a lot of people. RIP my dear sweet friend!!!

And of course this had my head spinning as Tom’s (my deceased husband) and my Mom’s birthday are coming up this month! We are a family of June birthdays and I used to call it Christmas in June but I just ain’t feeling it anymore. The birthdays around here are:
June 1 – Sister’s Daughter
June 2 – Sister
June 14 – Tom (Gone)
June 16 – ME
June 17 – Mom (Gone)
June 29 - Gregg

So you see, I don’t much care for June any more! And then next month will (would have been) our Wedding Anniversary and will be 6 years since Tom died! The only good thing about July is that it is Andy’s Birthday. He will be 12 if he lives that long. With school being out, my patience has been tried to the nth degree already! Caught the little shit on the roof a few minutes ago!! GRRRRRRRRRR I hate kids.

We will be going to Indiana Beach in a few weeks which will get him outta my hair for awhile. We are letting him take a friend so they can run their asses off for two days and maybe burn some of that damn energy before I commit murder! And he has two weeks of camp coming up in July and August! God I live for those weeks when my house can actually be quiet and I can think and not have to clean up any messes. Both camps are just the right ones for him. One camp is especially for kids with Bi-Polar and ADHD and they work on controlling the emotions and the other is for kids that either have a parent with Cancer or lost one to it! He started going to the second about 4 years ago and it really helped him deal with his grief over his Dad!

Oh, BTW, no I am not a raging alcoholic!!!! I got a message about my last blog that it sounded like I drink A LOT! Well, yes, I do!! When I am on vacation!!! That is what the week is for!! No thinking and all drinking!! I THINK when I am home and attending to one of the gazillion responsibilities that I have to deal with every day and when I go on vacation…NO DAMN THINKING!!!!! Then I come home and resume my regular scheduled program. And as most of you know, being a single parent is THE TOUGHEST job in the world! I do have Gregg but I have the kids. He has none and it adapting to his role quite well! So to that person…BITE ME!!!

Ok, rant over…whew…that felt good!!

On another note…We put in a garden earlier this spring and we had it all planted and it looked good. It is 12’ X 24’...yepp...it’s a big one for me! We had 25 tomato plants, 32 green bean plant, radishes, cukes, zucchini, peas, onions, watermelon, and cantaloupe! Yep, we squeezed all of that in there! Well, that afore mentioned sweet lil Devil that claims to be my son decided he would help. We had a bottle of Liquid Fence that you spray around the edges to keep the varmints out. Yep, you guessed it!! He thought he would help and went out and sprayed it DIRECTLY on my bean plants! Umm...nope...no more beans. So off I go to the nursery and get 32 more plants! I get them all planted and it looks good again! And then, come Saturday, Mother Nature decided we didn’t do it right and sent us some nasty storms with marble sized hail! OMG!! My poor plants took another beating! So, in my brilliant brain, I have an idea!! I went to our local bar and grabbed a handful of stir sticks. Yep, hillbillies ain’t got shit on me! I take a stirrer and prop up the plant and tie a piece of yarn around it! Voila…staked up they are! And it is working….so there!! I will take a pic when I get more batteries for the camera. See, Devil child also thought taking pictures of nothingness is a good idea too! Lord help me get through this summer…and its only June 4th!!

Okay, ramblings are over…for now! Gonna go see if someone has more exciting life than mine!

Hugs & Kizzes

Karen