But I will be gone this weekend, as I'm canning a bushel of apples.

Hah!

Betcha thought I was gone for the next few weeks, dintja? Huh, huh, dintja? Well, fat chance!

The husband is off and that makes it hard to find time to get online. Especially right now, we always have so much to catch up on. They've got him working 12 hour shifts right now. Since his commute is an hour and a half each way, that means he is home long enough to sleep and and leave. He doesn't even eat at home the days he's working. It's not fun at all and the overtime and 4 day weekends just don't make up for it.

The good news is, he applied for another job in the same company and it looks like he's going to get it! Not only does it come with a raise, the hours are much saner and honestly, he'll enjoy it more than what he's doing now. This job turned out not to be as advertised. It's really mostly just answering phones. This new one involves doing actual analysis and looking for trends, which is what he really wants to do, so life is looking much better.

I'm very excited about the raise, as our furniture is starting to fall apart. And I mean literally fall apart. The springs are almost all gone from the couch, the kitchen table chairs are dropping pieces and wobble alarmingly when you sit down. You have to sit rather carefully to keep from falling, in fact. Now I can start looking for someone to repair our couch and buy new chairs! Yay!