I am so thankful school is out this week. Like so many others, my son is ultimately over it, and I am over having to motivate him. He has a couple of summer jobs lined up, and I hope a paycheck is enough to keep him moving. I’d like to have at least one month off from nagging him about responsibility. I still can’t believe he will be a senior next year.

Things are moving along at the money pit. Not as quickly as we had planned, but they are moving. We pulled most of the old water lines this weekend and started installing the new ones. I am quite excited to have a working toilet in the house. Only cold water for now, but that’s all you need to flush a toilet!

Last week one of our lawnmowers started smoking. We were pretty sure it was a goner. The man who had been servicing my mower every year had told me two years ago it likely wouldn’t make it another season. At the beginning of this year, he told me to tell the kids not to break it because they no longer make parts for it. We had a mower in storage, so George decided he would see if he could get parts and get it mowing again. He did and got the smoking mower running once again. So now we have three mowers. Hopefully, that will be enough to keep the yards up this summer.

I haven’t planted my garden yet. I’ve had six tomato plants in my car for a week now; it makes a pretty good greenhouse! I may have fresh tomatoes in my car before I have them from the garden.

I don’t even have water in the Nelson Pool, and being the manager is already stressing me out. I’ve been trying for several weeks to schedule a lifeguarding class and having one heck of a time with it. We thought we had an instructor and had dates lined up, but then the instructor was called away for work, so that fell through. Now we have an instructor, but the Red Cross website is causing a hold-up for us. The weather is not doing me any favors either. Pray for my mental health, as it wasn’t that great to begin with! LOL! X’s & O’s