Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[frustratedearthmother]

figured after the weld test yesterday, I'd have to go straight from the shop to the job and start today. Instead I start Mon and just have to do some site specific "on-line" training.

I guess Monday is better than nothing - but that's a few extra days without pay - ugh.

 

[CLSranch]

The time off after weeks of 7 days a week (a month without seeing the family or house) then 6 days a week and lots of work to do at the house is a blessing. I hate to say it but a few things I've needed for years, also needed 6 consecutive big paychecks to get the parts. I've just started ordering some parts a couple of weeks ago and now I can put them in. Also I left the trailer plug in the other day while warming the truck, so it could charge the camper battery while waiting, then I drove off and while setting up to practice some welding I noticed wires and no plug on the truck. I need to fix that to. I'd rather not have snow, ice and mud to work in, but some of these things have been needed for years.

A week or 2 is quite normal in my line of work in between jobs. 50-84 hrs a week for a month make up for 40 hr week not working and being home. I just don't need the 6 months of barely working like last summer, well spring-fall.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Feast or famine!

 

[Mini Horses]

@CLSranch THANKS....car had plenty of antifreeze. Actually, about 3 hrs later the sun had melted the re-iced glass and the heater was back in operation. Temps had risen 15* by then. Winds had dropped off. Heater had worked fine day before. It was an unexpected happening

NOW we had been advised this weekend should be a snow blizzard. That's right, they're saying a real humdinger. I don't think I can handle this another week with any amusement! Deflating, depressing, another week of all day chores. Not fair.

AND...another week with no pay? Can't get to jobs?

 

[Alaskan]

I would actually like to take at least a little of the cold back.

We AGAIN rained most of the night. All of the pretty snow is now off the trees, and the parking lots are back to sheets of ice.

 

[Hinotori]

I would actually like to take at least a little of the cold back.

We AGAIN rained most of the night. All of the pretty snow is now off the trees, and the parking lots are back to sheets of ice.

I saw where they said the la nina is collapsing and they expect us to be in a bad el nino come summer.