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Today was interesting! When I got to work at 4 am, there were over 490 residence/places of business out of power. The best guess we could get was 2 hours. We cleaned, stocked and started rolling burritos. Then S got there, sent two home and was going to let me go....side note...I should have RAN when I had the chance. We started decorating the case and started talking about the fact that by Oct I need to be at "X" amount of dollars. She simply said that she didn't think D would ever do that as J and A have been there for over 5 years and neither make close to that. I told her that if I couldn't get the bare min needed to take care of my family, I would have to look for a different job. She said that she had heard something along those lines, and was going to wait to until I brought it up. The sad fact of the matter is simply that I can go across the street, and make more starting out than what I asked for. She said that she would talk to D. The power came on shortly after that and it was a NIGHTMARE. No food for nearly an hour, customers upset and complaining and grumping, computer systems crash, and credit cards didn't work. I was suppose to get off at 11 and didn't leave until after 2.

CW is here helping Duck in the garage. I need to get my WT study done for the morning, do the dishes and pick up the living room. I may just do the dishes and then do my study in the morning. Last night....are you ready for this???? Sunshine slept in his own bed. Duck came in and laid down and started to doze a bit when he came in and touched Duck's feet. "Daddy, it's raining, it's storming." Duck questioned, "What bubby?" Sunshine repeated, "DADDY IT'S RAINING, IT'S STORMING!" Duck then realized that thc car windows were still down. He got up, rolled them up and came to bed. Now the great thing....Sunshine stayed in his bed, in his room!

This is going to be interesting. I'm going to see how tomorrow goes. I'm under a lot of stress, and work isn't helping at all. I really want to find a way to quit and stay home with the boys. I want to go out in service with the boys 3 times week, do school work and wait for daddy to get home while cleaning and getting dinner ready. That is what I want to do. I want to fulfill what Jesus commanded of us. I've also though about downsizing the house as much as possible. I've starting view another's blog and he is something. Not sure how to approach all of it, but it sounds cool although something I could never do without huge guidance or instruction.

Tonight I made spaghetti with Zucchini and it was great. We had butterfly pasta (bowtie). Very cheap and Smiley had seconds. I'm impressed. Yesterday I harvested 2 zuch, 1 squash and 1 ear of corn. Today I was checking the garden and realized that the horrible storm that passed through knocked over several tomato plants and cages and snapped some corn. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the tomato plants staked back up and growing in the right direction. I also put up a fence around 2 pepper plants, the pumpkins are trying to take them over. Right now we can see 3 gourd pumpkins, I can't wait!!!!! Then I made two wonderful discoveries! The first being my first red tomato, alas I've finally got one, it's a cherry, but it's still red...then the awesomeness of a purple pepper. I can't wait for it to get a bit bigger so I can try it. I'm hoping that it is one of many so that I can make stir fry even more interesting! My yellow or red plant out front has died off. I'm at a loss as to why, but we'll see if the other makes it. I'm thinking that I may want to plant two more out in the garden when I pull up the other squash. The garden has been a great success and blessing this year. Next year we will be planting more and more and more corn. Duck isn't glad to hear that as he will have to be the one to till. But he wants more corn, and so do I. We need to see how far this takes us. While we have given a ton away, we need to start conserving more for this winter. I just planted 8 pole beans, spinach, lettuce and broccoli. This should make a wonderful bumper fall crop. I need to find out when when the first frost is, I am thinking about planting another crop of corn. It takes about 90 days which would put us into Oct.
Well I need to run to bed, I'm really exhausted, I had 4 hrs sleep, and I'm really tired.