BarbWired

Looks like I’m headed back into the work force, at least part time.   One of the liquor stores we help support ran an ad in the local paper, so I stopped in yesterday and dropped off my resume’.  The owner called and asked me to come in for a few hours last night to train.  So there ya go – looks like I’m gainfully employed for 3 nights a week.  I don’t mind working evenings – it’s 4:00 to 10:00 – although I probably wouldn’t want to work every night.  I think it might be kinda fun.  I’ll do some more training next week and start on my own the week after. 

In other news, I’m still not 100% healthy, but I’m feeling much better.  The coughing jags are coming less frequently, although they are still violent and still producing ….. uhh, stuff. 

We had a little bit of excitement in our little corner of the world this week.  There was a bad fire (hmm – is there any other kind of fire??) in my hometown.  One of the buildings down town was completely gutted, and the buildings on either side sustained serious smoke damage.  In a small town, something like this brings out everyone.  Greg and I went in to the kids house and we all walked downtown to check it out.  Luckily the only injury was minor smoke inhalation to one of the fire fighters.  The building that burned recently housed a ceramics business, which had closed.  But the woman who owned the business also lived in the back of the store, so she lost her home.  I look at the damage and see the loss of the old drug store I spent so much time in as a kid.  I loved that store.  They had all kinds of neat stuff to tempt kids.  There was a jewelry case in the front, one of those that had an electric motor that made the shelves revolve down and around so you could stand there and watch all the pretty necklaces and rings move around and around.  As a kid – that was just the coolest thing!  They also had a soda fountain of course.  My favorite was chocolate cokes.  Sounds kinda gross now!  The pharmacist was a old man everyone called Doc.  I’m sure he really was a pharmacist, but for some reason, I always thought he was a vet too.  Doubtful – I’m not even sure why I thought that.  I’ll have to ask my mom about it!  He was a teddy bear and he loved kids.  I don’t think he and his wife had children.  She ran the rest of the store, and she was not a big fan of kids.  You could just see her cringe when a pack of kids would walk through the front door.  She kind of hovered as we walked around the store.  She was very prim and proper and never joked around with us.  She probably thought we were a bunch of hoodlums who were going to steal everything not nailed down!  I’m sure there were a few kids in town that were like that, but not MY friends of course!! 

Earlier this week, I mowed the grass for the first time this spring.  We have a fairly large yard, and when you push mow the whole freaking thing, it takes a couple of hours easily.  My mower is 2 years old, and apparently, it wanted to mow even less than I did.  I can’t count the number of times it quit for no reason (although three times were because it was out of gas) and Greg would have to stop his welding and come tinker with the dang thing till it would run again.  The last time it quit, Greg did too.  fixing it that is.  He said the carburetor needs adjusting, and on these cheap mowers you can’t do that.  So basically, it’s trash, and I’m getting a new mower.  Considering how cheap it was, I guess 2 years is about all you can expect out of it anyway.  I think we’re going to try and get a little better one this time around.  The bad thing is I wasn’t quite finished with the section I was mowing, so there’s a 3 foot strip right down the middle of it.  Plus the outer edges of the yard still haven’t been cut.  I love the first mowing of the year – the grass is so pretty, and smells so good.  Course now we have a yard full of dandelions, but that’s ok – they kinda pretty!  not to mention they’re the only flowers we have.