So many changes ...

that we feel like bouncing balls.

We got the garden in which was mostly tomatoes  except for some chives, garlic chives and the berry bushes.. Hubby will do that this weekend as I once again have a stress fracture in my foot...same place as 2 other times, my bones in my feet are closer together than they should be and very small ( I wear a 3 in children's shoes) and am going in for back injections.

At 209 I picked strawberries and cut rhubarb. Amish neighbor is going to pick the rest of the strawberries (her patch died and mine is going to rot before I get back due to back injections ). She is going to can (process) some of the berries in pints for us in exchange of giving her the berries.

Hubby called about windmill with pond aerator. He will go up later to pay for it so it can be started.... He also called about a dry hydrant for the pond ...a dry hydrant is where the fire truck can hook their pumper truck and suck water out of the pond to fight the fire. We live out in the country so there are not water hydrants. Our neighbor 2 houses down has one and gave us who to get call to get that rolling. He called about getting the main line from the septic to the county tile cleared of tree roots... this is the 2nd time he has called this company. If they don't respond by Friday he will be calling another company that is one town over from us. Trying to keep things local but if they don't answer and don't call back from messages you really can't do anything else.

Hubby is looking strongly at a portable welder, several of the Amish have asked him if he could provide this service for them as right now they are having to haul everything about 15 miles (usually hiring the transport of what ever) and the guy that was doing it retired. The welder he is looking at is at auction and has a diesel generator we could also use for the house. Especially since we have a 500 gal tank for diesel fuel , we could actually save money by having the diesel generator as we use street diesel (they have off road diesel fuel for a lot of farm equipment) and getting a diesel truck for Hubby after we move. He has several offers of hauling for people but needs  bigger truck... okay he needs a newer truck as this 1998 truck(2 engines and a transmission later) is a worn out baby and needs replaced... even as we have scheduled brakes to be put on it on Friday.

We have been getting a lunch from the local store for our lunches when at 209. Hubby decided that he wanted to only buy one meal and split it but get a side salad or coleslaw to split also. I've great with that. It will save us money.

We are "snacking" for our dinner/supper so I told him I wanted to prep things we could snack on that was healthy since we are just too tired to cook (sometimes too tired to eat) and ice cream from DQ or eating tortilla chips has been  the answer. Not a great way to keep up the energy we are burning.

I've been to the store three times this month... and Hubby picked up milk and bread once... Still with paying for the eating out from the grocery budget we are still UNDER budget.

I also cut rhubarb here and some garlic scapes.

Blessed Be