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Comments (29)"Today I was panicking about what I will take to eat at work and how I will have time to knit, garden, etc. when I am at work all day. I may just have to keep flowering plants in my office and my knitting stashed under my desk. I don't know if my office will have a window, but I know it will have a door that closes!" When you prepare dinner, prepare enough to have leftovers. As you clean up after dinner, pack the leftovers into the containers you'll grab in the next day or so for lunch. Doing that makes lunch prep a breeze in our house. you won't have time for gardening, knitting etc. You'll have to figure out a way to prioritize to make room for the extras. Saturdays and Sundays willl become newly structured as well...errand running and the hobbies become relegated to those days. Knitting while at work....uh, I'd suggest you drop that idea. I have yet to run into an employer who would tolerate that - you weren't hired for your knitting skills, were you? It's going to be trial and error. You'll evolve into patterns that work...and it will take time....See MoreBack To Work--Back To Work
Comments (15)OJ, thanks for the reminder. How silly of me to think it would go on forever. I won't be slipped under the grass either. My point to Linda was.. the great feeling of not having to go back to work. I used to listen to Dr. Laura a lot. She has some good points, and some I don't agree with. If your a single mom, you either work and support yourselves and your children, or you go on the system. I prefered/could work, and had a great job from the age of 27-57 1/2. Linda and a few of the others here know the work schedual we had. I didn't get a lot of time off, and when I did, I felt guilty too, if I wasn't home with the girls. But I need ME time too. Everyone does. So a couple hours every other week is a great break. I must have done okay, as I have 4 grown daughters, none did drugs (other than 1 did a little pot) or are alcoholics, and I'm very proud of them. One is able to be a SAHM, and she's busy 24/7 running them here and there, keeping them busy and in sports. Just make it quality time when you are with them. Besides Gramma may want some special time with her DGK's. Leslie...See MoreBack to work........
Comments (8)Jasdip, the sunflowers are mostly grown around Bow Island, about 60 miles south of here. That country down there is almost all irrigated land, so they can grow a variety of crops that we can't. (what irrigation is around here goes into hay, barley and canola. The sunflower fields are spectacular, well worth driving by. Spitz sunflower seed plant is just south of Bow Island, the distribution plant is in Medicine Hat. I understand that Pepsi now owns the plant, but I might be wrong on that. That area is also famous for it's bean and sugar beet production, and just west of there, the worlds best sweet corn is grown in the Taber area. Potatoes are also a big cash crop in that area. I just got in from doing chores, and it is plus 3. Regular coveralls (not insulated ones) a light jacket and no toques this morning!!!...See MoreA few more pictures before back to work
Comments (10)Thanks again everyone! Verdun stays small...spends too much energy producing zillions of blooms, I guess. Just my 3rd year with Rainbow, but already a favorite for those stripey blooms...such a sweet looking rose!!! Desertgarden, I almost didn't post the NN pictures since they really don't do it justice. The bush is well shaped and blooms almost constantly here...it does blackspot, but that doesn't slow it down. Hopefully, it will be as vigorous in your climate. Rainbow again......See More- 5 years ago
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