Sounds like they are getting it under control! Very happy to hear that!
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I have been through several of these. Just listen to the authorities and stay safe.
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Fire is 100% contained and we actually got .14 of an inche of rain! A little small hail but nothing bad. Not much but it beats nothing. Still watching some thunder and lightning to the South. Thank you Jesus! More rain forecast for the end of the week.
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I’m glad to hear it! Yes, thank you, Jesus!!
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Wow, you’ve been through so much since I last caught up on things here. You’re very strong!
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Ha! Dumpster fire is a more accurate description.
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You are, no question, made of flame retardant. #StrongStuff
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She was forged in the fires of Helios, Or as Texans call it, summer.
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I have figured out if you want a pretty good workout just let your son volunteer at your local food pantry run by a bunch of… “older people”. I mean, I’m not a young person so we’re talking late 60’s -80s.
You may not only be the strongest woman in the building, you may be the strongest person in the building. I seem to be the only who can whip a 50lb bag of cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and onions up and shoulder carry them around along with cases or oranges, squash, melons etc… for 3 hrs.
Meanwhile said son is just helping people take the groceries to their cars in a wagon. 
Wait! What???
Wednesday’s workout was making a small garden space in a patch of Bermuda grass… with a grubbing hoe my daddy would have thrown in the garbage.
Thursday was yadrio with the push mower.
It’s springtime in Texas.
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The older I get, the older “old” gets. When I was 30, old was like 70, so 40 years.
Now at 52, old is like 75. So thats 25 years.
At this rate, I won’t be old until I’m about 180.
I’m also looking forward to starting some seeds & stuff soon. My oregano wintered over unscathed, and is already showing some new growth. 
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Just venting…
The hard week is almost done. I was positively foul yesterday. Just so many emotions. Jed’s bday was last Tues… happy. Dad passed away o the 11th sad, my bff passed away on 12th even sadder, and today would have been mom’s bday and the day Jed got to come home from the hospital. I always feel like this is the day we should celebrate. Mom’s best bday present ever!
I already love/dread this week every year, maybe even more so this year.
I should be over it by now but it still bittersweet.
On a happy note… my mom loved the feed the hummingbirds and birds. The last few years we have some hummers but not bunches like she used to. Well, she must have told them all to come because there are a bunch this year!
P. S.Please send sugar!
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I can relate. I lost my dad in the beginning of December, and my mother right before Christmas, and it hits me pretty hard sometimes.
Having a son and seeing him happy and celebrating is great and really helps, but that stuff hurts! It just does.
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Sending you some extra prayers and great BIG hug!
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Thanks! We made it past the hard part. Beautiful Easter Sunday here. God is good.
We have Easter chicks! Only two but I am proud of them!
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Oh look! I got off my lazy ass and did something.
BPAs
No money
Band lat pulls
Band tri ext
Ring rows
DB BP
1x10/8,10,15s,20s
I can already tell there is going to be trouble at the food pantry. The “older” ladies were fussing at me Friday for packing the veggies🙄
It’s not my fault those guys are over there having a bullshit session with their phones. I told her that it doesn’t bother me carrying 50lbs of produce but that guy that sits right in front of the cooler does.
As my departed daddy would say… he’s useless as teats on a boar hog!
Two trips later, his chair and fat ass were out of the way!
I told that one I can clean more this, and squat it multiple times. Ugh! They gonna keep on till I lose my 10 pounds of fluff and give them the ole double biceps pose
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If you keep working circles around the lazy guys on their cellphones maybe the older ladies can shame them into actually getting off their butts and doing something.
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I think that was her thought.
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me, well.. sitting in front of the door did. I would rather be busy than standing around. She was much more upset about it. I just get.. aggravated hearing you’re going to hurt your back, you’re going to hurt yourself, blah.. blah.. blah.
As a 5’4" woman, that shit gets old in a hurry.
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I’ve never been one of those, but when its go time and people are acting like the guy you described, I tend to get a little miffed.
Like maybe you could walk up to him with a couple of little radishes and say “I found these on the floor and thought you lost them” or something.
Hummingbirds are absolutely mesmerizing.
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I was referring to the “ladies” saying you’re going to hurt yourself, you shouldn’t carry that heavy stuff, being annoying. No, I’m not an amazon women but I can get the job done. This is a volunteer thing. If I didn’t want to do it, I wouldn’t go. A couple of them realize it’s not really hard for me, and they are happy for the help.
But, remarks like the “getting hurt thing” always seem to start some kind of drama. I do NOT like drama. Quickest way to get me to leave is drama. I am not a team player, I am the … asshole.
Because of people like the guy sitting in the door🤣
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