Five Seasons

my zucchini has been slow but it's coming. cukes ready to explode. most of my tomatoes are still green. Looks like your spot gets great sun!

2 shots... but just like a compound. Archery for sure.

this guy knows his tomatoes i guess haha. I have nothing to report today. No dead plants and no dead rodents.

I think by far my biggest issue is the lack of transition. While commuting sucks, it was time for me to clear my head before, but most importantly after work. Now I just walk upstairs and don't have that time to transition. If it's a bad day, there my kids are with something broken or they're being kids and it's harder to take haha.

There's a lot more to it than that. Most have their limits. For example, I travel for work, some wouldn't want to do that at all. If my travel stepped up a lot more than it is now, that's a limit for me regardless of income and I'd be looking for something else. I've worked for 4 major corporations. I've had good and bad bosses and been in good and bad situations. My work ethic has allowed me to be who I am and afford me the position that I have now, which I do so happily every day. Is my job for everyone? Of course not, and that's what's great about this world. There's lots of jobs out there in all sorts of fields. Seems that Bill really enjoyed working the stockroom of walmart. I worked grocery stockroom at Tops in High School and couldn't fathom doing that my whole life. You mention sitting all day. It's not like we're just sedentary for 8+ hours, but yes it can be frustrating. But so can back pain and arthritis at the age of 40 from doing manual labor all day. At the end of the day, my job affords me to have the lifestyle I enjoy for me, my wife and 3 boys. I'm neither excited or depressed to go to work. It's a job and a means to an end. To speak about an office job as chasing a dollar is kinda funny to me. I know guys doing manual labor working OT putting in far longer hours than me. Maybe I misunderstood your comment though.

What i've seen at my company and my former companies is that they are brining back the entry to mid-level workers for exactly this reason. They can't seem to manage the trust and work. But many executives and senior leaders are staying home. Like I said earlier, we have jobs that just need to be done regardless of when and where we are and typically have earned the trust to manger our time, which often includes some nights and weekends. We're also either on the road or in meetings most of the day, which is very different than a customer support specialist or inventory manager, hr generalist etc.

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scored a point this am with a much smaller mouse, but still pretty plump. That's 2 bodies for belo and something like 15 plants for them lol.

my situation exactly. Pre-covid with a different company I was driving 35min both ways (on a good day), only to sit in an office. As someone who doesn't have direct site responsibility it really didn't matter except an occasional meeting, which always had virtual attendees as we were spread across the globe.

It's a little more complicated than that. I have global responsibility, ~20k employees in my business unit 5 directors reporting to me each with their own staff. It's just a big job, but yes the pressure is generally that which I put on myself. But my work ethic is what got me here. I don't work nearly as much in the summer and fall as I do in the shitty winter months. I will add that my point is that it's harder to disconnect at home than it was at an office. I do flex my time more though. Mow the lawn at lunch, do laundry, water the garden, run an errand if I'm free. But I'm not paid by the hour so that just means I might work later, or if I have a call with China or parts or Europe, earlier.

I don't think that's the norm at all, and I'd be curious what these kids were making. Are they getting away with it? Probably for now, but those kind of jobs are entry to mid-level jobs and those that slack rarely get recognized and promoted, trust me. I work from home and probably work more hours now than I did in the past because there is no disconnect. I'm just here and there's never enough time in the day to get it all done.

I don't think so, it had eyes. Obviously I don't know shit about rodents. Anyhow, I assumed there was more than one perp, but got all cocky and bought 7 more pepper plants and replanted. Setup the trap again and this morning found my bait gone and trap closed, but empty which is a huge f'n mystery to me. Lost 2 new plants in the process. They are winning this battle, but I will prevail! Trap setup and baited once more...

Maybe? I pictured rats as being skinnier/longer. I don't know if I've ever seen a rat in the country.

I cut at about 8", I guess I'll see how well I did with the chicory, but it's a very valid concern. I don't think spraying is by any means necessary. All I've read and learned is that mowing is the key, but to spray if you have more grass than you want. I see some grass in your pics, but you have lots of good stuff too. It might be tough to spray that much with a backpack.

mowing mine made all the difference in the world. In less than a week, stuff that was hidden under weeds exploded. Last week I also did some arrest max with crop oil to get some of the grasses. We didn't get those storms a few weeks ago, so mine is pretty dry without much rain in the forecast either.

We were away all weekend. I had put out some older mole poison I had from like 8 years ago and a larger squirrel size cage with seeds in it, plus sprinkled some of that "humane" keep away stuff. No luck, the remaining peppers were sliced off at the stem. The perps MO, plus a bean plant on return. I figured I might just let it go... but that's not the kind of guy Belo is, so I went to country max and bought a small cage, rat poison and a plastic rat trap. Got this guy this morning and he is one of the bigger mice I've seen. Trap baited with a slice of pepper lol. Rebaited and rebought more pepper plants. peanut butter in rat trap untouched. Oh and belo doesn't "have a heart" lol.

I feel like some of this will be overturned again by the supreme court, but how long does it take to get to them? This is just a way for dems to "gain more votes and hand wringing" with a law that will be overturned eventually, just like the 7 rounds in a mag was.

From yesterday morning till last night I lost 2 more. So down to 3 of 9 peppers I just bought lol. I'm now in full blown warfare. I have sprinkled some of that "deterrent" that is supposed to bother their noses. I also sprinkled straight up poison. If I lose this battle I'm giving up for the year unless they start messing with growing cucumbers or squash. Then I'll go to phase 3.

Remember her base is happy that she's fighting against the court though. I don't see how you think gas prices and the economy wont be an issue in November.

not sure we needed a new post on this. we already have 2.

You and I are on the same page. It's the tone and way the topic was approached. But that's how he is.

Mine is similar. They dug under it.

It's an interesting topic. As our country becomes continually more and more divided. Guns ok here and abortions not. Guns not ok here and abortions yes. Do these hot button issues help her that she's standing firm with her base? I don't know, but nobody is safe in November if gas and the economy don't improve.

geez man were you drunk when you wrote this? I didn't say it was all just rumors. I said we should wait and see what really happens. And what I see is still just a press conference, and not an actual signed law. And you're not talking to some guy who doesn't have a permit, pistols, ammo or guns. I'm not your enemy here.

i'd be sitting all day. I'm still not even sure what it is. chipmunk i think.