I can't believe how fast this summer is going by. It almost feels like fall already. I don't like it. Wasn't it still snowing just last month?

Lawns are still keeping me busy, though many of them have become every other week instead of weekly. All of the odd jobs are keeping be busy, ie: flower garden clean up, hedge trimming, pruning, etc... I need to get back to a painting job I started in May also... It MUST be done by mid-August! So hopefully I can finish that up next week.

My own 'yard' has been very neglected. Just today I finally got around to weeding the flower beds in front of my place. It was so irritating to see that weed bed every time I drove home after a long day of work, too tired to work in my own yard. Now that it's somewhat cleaned up, I need to plant some more flowers in it. With all the weeds gone you can see that the flowers are quite sparse.

I'm sure everyone will be thrilled to know that I am finally bathing at home again. My dad got the bathtub fully plumbed in last week! Sorry it's taken me so long to tell you about it. I'm sure the suspense has been killing you. Now it's my turn to get some work done... I don't like the accent tile that I bought to tile the shower with, so I'm doing some investigating into making my own tile for the shower. There's a pottery studio down in Lewiston that I'm hoping will help me with my quest for the perfect tile. I want a deep blue green, that feels like deep water in the middle of a lush forest. I haven't found any tile at the flooring stores around town that fit that specific bill. I found a candle at Pier 1 that is the perfect color, so I've been hauling that around town tile shopping with me. No luck yet.

Besides working and messing around at home, I've been doing a lot of thinking about what I'd like to do for work this winter. What I've come up with so far is: 1)Cook at Wais Divide (in Antarctica) 2) Work on a sailboat somewhere or 3) maybe go back to school for nursing? Who knows what will happen. I've been hoping that something will fall in my lap like it did last summer with the job down in Antarctica. I may not be that lucky again. So if anyone has any suggestions on where I should go or what I could do, leave me a comment with some info on it! I'm up for anything. In fact, I talked to a lady yesterday that said I could go cook a sorority in town for the winter, or she'd ask her son who is the skipper of a fancy yacht if he needed any help... or she know a professor who might need help with a camp he runs up in Alaska for glacier study in the summers. Now that's quite the variety to pick from! Unfortunately, I don't think I'd last very long in a sorority, and the skipper son only has two other job positions on the boat and they are filled, and the summer camp for glacier study job would be an office job in Moscow... So I'll be waiting for something else to pan out.