The good & the bad

The good is that I’ve made lots of progress in my yard and garden (still not done though). The garden is growing like crazy…of course so is everything else :p I have most of it finally weeded and yeah, I realize that’s supposed to be an ongoing thing This picture was taken a while ago, it’s all much bigger now!

Another sweet thing, I gave away the wooden swingset that was in my garden area to someone on Craigslist who was looking for one. I got a letter from them today with pictures. They had just moved to a new house and they have pictures of a deer right by the swingset that has twin babies. They also sent me a check for $25. I never expected ever hearing from them let alone money. I’m going to send them pictures of my garden. Thanks to them I could have one! The money is going into my very sorry furnace fund.

The bad, and I must keep this in perspective because it’s really so unimportant. Someone stole my two trashcans that sat beside my garage with my address painted right on them. It really makes me mad. So what if I wasn’t using them. It’s a violation and I hate living in the kind of area where people will take everything that’s not locked down. If they’d all quit spending money they can’t afford on fireworks to annoy the rest of us for days on end they could buy their own damn trash cans. I wish I could afford to move back into a civilized area like I always lived in. These are just not my kind of people. I’m annoyed at the rude kids around here but how can they learn to respect other peoples property when they have role models that steal anything they see that’s not tied down?

The other bad thing is my inertia. I skipped out on my group the last three times. I just sit here feeling sleepy all day long. I’ve dragged myself out to do some weeding and tonight I got the trash out, which meant picking the dead moldy weeds off my grass where I piled them. But I am so not being productive like I was before the worst headache in the world. I’m trying to applaud my efforts when I do something worthwhile but that seems few and far between lately.

Ah well, I guess good and bad equals out to normal. That’s life.