It is a mystery

 I'm at my parents this weekend to help with strawberry planting. They decided to switch part of their strawberries over to plastic production from matted row and we are getting 8k plants in the ground this weekend. yesterday was a long day, 7:30 to 8pm with a longer than standard lunch break. Today was similar. Yesterday we got the field prepped, disked and rototilled and we spent the afternoon figuring out how the new plastic layer worked. We got three or four of the rows laid yesterday. Then we went out this morning, got the last of the 17 rows laid and set up the irrigation. Irrigating is so key right now, it is so dry and no rain predicted for another week. We got three rows planted of 12 (other 5 will be planted when the rest of the strawberries arrive). It was so hot, I was sweaty and disgusting and covered in dirt. 

We finished up around 8, I finished up moving strawberry flats around. Hopped in the shower. Got out of the shower, dressed and got dinner (a giant bowl of ice cream) then checked my email. I have the alerts for online purchases for my credit card sent to my email. And there were two charges for amazon. 

I haven't ordered from amazon since september last year. So uhhh, that wasn't me. Thankfully I called and my credit card company was extremely helpful and all they asked me to do was to login to my amazon account and see if the charges were on there. They weren't and so they got the whole thing handled and I've got a new card coming. My big concern is that I placed an order with a garlic farm this morning from my phone on their website. I didn't pay through paypal. I don't know how else my number may have gotten out there but I'm a little alarmed. 

I'm doubling my garlic production this year because I am almost sold out of garlic already. I sold out of the premium garlic in three weeks, since both my aunt and my parents were selling it for me. So doubling production. It's harder to do when you want to sell some and increase production. I'm doing some size experiments with planting. They say to keep the biggest heads for planting. So I am. And I'm also going to do a small trial of small garlic and sorting by clove size. We'll see. 

Anyway. I'm going to pass the fuck out because I'm exhausted.

It doesn't necessarily end up being a place that I use a lot. The communities here aren't very active and I tend to get all of my social media stuff spread across twitter tumblr and instagram. between those three, linking to each other and having some separate circles in each, I think I've figured out how much social media I want to use.

I finished the episode and stayed up a full hour past my normal sleep time

I'm so proud of myself

so now I'm watching something about natural parks which is pretty cool

to be fair, tv is more of a background noise that I can occasionally pay attention to so this is pretty great because now I get to look and see bears and flowers and trees and cool views

and its on my ankle which is one of the most unhelpful places to be stung. It would have been worse if it was my foot but I've got fields of crops to walk tomorrow and its probably going to be pissy

Its a bit swollen and itchy but overall not bad, just annoying that its swollen and hot. Hopefully it goes down by tomorrow morning before I put on my boots

if I shower tonight, I get to sleep an extra fifteen minutes in the morning

if I shower in the morning, I can be lazy and go right to sleep as soon as I get to my room

the answer is fuck my future self I want to sleep now

we finally have thank god

internet guy was delayed because his truck broke down and got here like a half hour ago, which I felt bad about

but he got here and got it put together in a half hour and now I have internet again

I got up, went to the barn for chores. Because it was 20 (with windchill of gross) we put the horses in the indoor arena to run while we cleaned stalls and did water. I also had to haul water out to the drafts which is always super duper fun, especially when the caps freeze to the jugs and I can't get them off.

Then I came home and packed and packed and packed and here's a great photo of the stack of things that are going over to the house at some point, probably monday.



This is the kitchen, some of Jade's stuff and some of mine. We still need to clean the closet out, I need to pack my room and some things in the living room and we'll be good. We were gonna move it all over to the house this weekend but its gonna be monday that we do it because tomorrow is supposed to be 21 with wind chill values down to -5.

So. We're waiting until monday probably.

And then we went out for burgers!

why are my feets so cold seriously I've got two blankets on them and they're tucked up against my legs but they just dont' stay warm

:(

I'll just blame the hotel right?

Finally a date set for moving.

The carpet people who are going to replace all the carpets will be in on the 23rd. I'm expecting to have 95% of my stuff moved over to the house by then.

I'm just so fucking excited about this move. An actual house where we can have pets. And we have our own drive way. with no neighbors that walk down the hallway and stairs loudly at all hours of the day.

The bedrooms are fucking huge, like larger than the apartment living room. There's plenty of windows and light in all the rooms.

There's some work to do in the yard and we've got some old furniture that needs some paint or refurnishing but projects are great.

I'll have a garden. And a yard. I'm so fucking excited like. This is super great.