My New Job

Each November the local newspaper publishes a Turkey Search with a free 20 pound turkey as the prize.  Each November I set up shop on the dining room table with pens, ruler and sharp eyes.  I have found that the "search" moves along best when I just "casually" glance at the letters and "see" a business name.  Trying too hard doesn't work for me.  But I have been known to sit for hours searching in the jumble of letters for the last few company names.  Even though the greenhouse does lots of advertising, we aren't in the Turkey Search.  As you can see, I had a very productive first few days.

We had a wild night, weather wise, here in Maine last night.  The wind sounded like a freight train blowing past the bedroom windows after midnight.  At four this morning, G was called to hear the news that his store had no power.  A fast food place wants to have power when 20,000 people in the state are without the means for coffee and breakfast.  The power came on at 6am and they served a lot of hungry, cranky people a hot breakfast.  And the schools were all closed.

For once, our power was still on this morning.  I think all the tree cutting that the power company did this summer helped but most of the power lines and poles were taken out by huge trees measuring more than 3 feet across the trunk.  No one was crushed or killed.  A miracle and a young mother and her baby had a tree come through the roof of their trailer, falling between their bedrooms.  The mom had to crawl under the tree trunk to get to her baby.  Wow.

It rained all day and I didn't have all that much to do but what I did have, I did pretty good.  Made several customers happy which is what this job is all about.

DWTS tonight and another chance for the Palin's to get all the Tea Partiers to vote for Bristol and send a real dancer home instead of Bristol.  This specific "star" has backfired for the show's producers.  I don't think they realized this could happen.  Bristol has ranked last for two weeks now and dancers in the top three or four have been sent home instead of her.  Bristol's mom even joked on Fox during election coverage, that Bristol was "saved" and now she (Sarah) could focus on the government votes.

I got a baby shower invitation today and asked what the new mom needed.  She said diapers.  Do you think she meant cloth?  She has a midwife so we could be going all retro and using cloth diapers again.  They can be expensive.  I used cloth diapers for both my babies in the late 60's, early 70's.  Pampers was just getting going and we used Pampers for "away" diapers.  Ah, the olfactory joys of the diaper pail on laundry days.