The dogs are fed and everything is ready to go
milk. The temperature outside is lovely (56°) and we are overcast. Damp fingers
do not work well on the touchpad of my laptop. The goats are very vocal this
morning.
I did call the doctor’s office yesterday just a
few minutes after 8:00 which is when they are in, and got the answering
service. The woman I spoke to said they should be answering the phone in five
or ten minutes so I waited fifteen until I called back. We scheduled Seth an
appointment for 10:30 so there was time to go work in the garden for 30 minutes
before getting ready to go.
While in the garden, I noticed lots of cucumbers
and broccoli and quite a few tomatoes almost ready to eat. I brought the
broccoli in and had to go back out to get the cucumbers because I hadn’t taken
out a bucket or anything to bring things in with. I am anxiously waiting for
the tomatoes because they are so much better than the things from the store and
they are one of the things that Paul thinks needs to be in the house at all
times so he brought home a bagful last night. The problem, or one of the
problems, with tomatoes from the store is that they look nice but they don’t taste
nice. I have read that they actually inject the tomatoes with chemicals to
improve the color. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if they also inject chemicals
to improve the flavor. I would personally prefer to not eat tomatoes other than
in the summer when I can have them out of my own garden.
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| The broccoli. Not the best pictures because I used my phone. |
I had to pick off all the blossoms from the basil
yesterday which was a terrible hardship. Because it is doing so well and there
is so much of it, I thought that we could have pesto and pasta with Oriental
broccoli and sliced cucumbers. That turned out good.
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| Cucumbers. |
Seth’s visit to the doctor was pretty low key-ish.
He actually was seen by the new physician’s assistant. I have absolutely no
problem with that. PAs often give more information than do MDs and that is a
good thing. Anyway, she listened to Seth’s lungs a lot and looked in his nose
and ears and throat and felt his lymph nodes in the neck and shoulder region.
She said that he did sound a bit crackly and so antibiotics would be her
suggestion. She went out to get the book that tells them how much of what
children need and came back and we had the discussion of allergic reactions to
ampicillin. He did have one in April of 2011 so he has to have something else.
That was figured out and she left again to electronically submit the
prescription to the pharmacy and Dr. Vorderstrauss came in to take a quick
check of his lungs and to ask if Joanna had gotten an appointment with UMass.
She concurred that antibiotics for Seth is the right route for the moment (I’m
glad we have some plain yogurt) and said she’d look in to the referral for
Joanna because I didn’t know if anything had been arranged or not.
And now I am going to milk the noisy goat.
Milk production this morning was way down. Less
than half of yesterday. I guess I really do need to move them to greener
pastures. It is one of the things on my list and I’ll go do it when I’m done
here or decide that I don’t want to wait and would rather get it over with.
Yesterday Joanna worked at the Tewksbury
Friendlys. It seems that they are very understaffed at the moment and don’t have
a general manager and are borrowing staff from other locations. Three from
Gardner are helping out. Joanna says that they pay for gas to get there which
is a good thing because otherwise it would do her absolutely no good to go.
Bare minimum when the traffic is good the drive is 54 minutes according to
Google Maps. Because 495 is currently under construction, both the distance and
the time are increased because 495 is part of the most direct route. She wasn’t
home yet when I went to bed and she’s still not up so I don’t know how it went
yet. Today she’s working in Gardner for a few hours and then going to Tewksbury
again for another few hours.
Yesterday afternoon, I took the boys to the
library. We checked out a few books and Cedric really wanted to look at the
movies so we got two: Willow and Iron Man. The latter is really scratched
up so they didn’t watch it last night. They ended up watching part of Willow and will most likely finish it
today. Paul has had a basket in the living room since we’ve been here and it’s
always just been a catch-all kind of deal (like so many things here) so yesterday
I had the boys empty it out and store library books in it. It’s just what we’ve
always needed so they don’t get misplaced. I was also going to stop at CVS for
Seth’s antibiotics but the lines were outrageous due to the time (5:20) so we
came home and I asked Laura to pick them up on her way home from church last
night.
Paul has been having fun at work. Blair has some
choices of what to do with the company right now. One includes moving to New
Hampshire. One includes having a guy come in and be . . . something. From what
Paul has said I’m not sure if he’d be the manager or more like a CEO. One is to
just keep doing things the way they’ve been. One would be working with a
distributer. Or some combination such as moving to New Hampshire and working
with a distributer. Or moving to New Hampshire and having the manager/CEO dude
come in and take over. Paul says that he likes the idea of moving to New
Hampshire but. None of the options are really that great. Working with a
distributer means that it would be very difficult to make sales because the
distributers would be selling to their clients. Which isn’t to say it would be
impossible, just difficult. If the manager/CEO guy comes in, everything,
including sales, will be in effect sub-contracted. Carrying on as they have
been isn’t a good option either because there are days when Paul is so
annoyed/frustrated/ready to throw in the towel it isn’t even funny. My solution
is simple: convince the gun company in Montana that Paul is the best person for
the job and move there. Good, yes?
I think that is about it for today. My list isn’t
too long and it’s time to get to work on it.
Have a wonderful day!
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