The week's news

I have the weekend off!   Woohoo!  Work has been very busy lately.  Not customer busy, although we had over 100 people on the sledding hill last weekend, but paperwork busy.  Which is a lot of my job.  I won't bore you with the details, but suffice to say that working for the government involves a lot of stupid bureaucratic crap.  Not exactly an epiphany, I'm sure.

I don't have any big plans.  The whole pandemic thing, you know.  I will be making a large vat of wild rice soup this evening.  O wasn't feeling well last week so Hubby brought our last frozen bag to him.  Time to make more!  I'll use leftover ham from Wednesday's ham supper.

Last night's supper was biscuits and gravy.  Which meant this morning's breakfast was biscuits and gravy with fried eggs on top, a favorite with all our kids.  And me.

O and E went up to St. Cloud to visit her family last weekend, so we're skipping our weekly visit with them for a bit.  Hubby did drop off a batch of cheeseburger buns (homemade buns with meat, tomato sauce and cheese baked inside) to him on Thursday, so they still got a free supper, sans socializing. 

G had a Knowledge Bowl tournament yesterday.  No other students were at the school, everyone was socially distant and he agreed to wear two masks, so we let him go.  His team got 4th place out of 23.  Way to go G!  He's also been spending a lot of time on the Seterra geography website, trying to break speedrun records.  If you ever need a geography nut for a trivia match, he's your guy.

B is currently downstairs firing off Nerf guns.  Over the years we've amassed a large amount of guns and ammo, so every once in awhile he goes downstairs and fires off numerous rounds.  It's a bit of a stress release.  Sometimes the cats go with him and chase after the bullets as they ricochet off the walls.

Melting snow and ice puddles in the yard.

Temps have been in the 30s and 40s this week, which means a lot of our snow has melted.  The farm fields behind our house are bare, although we still have snow and ice in our yard.  Open black fields warm faster than grass-covered lawns.  The snow-melt has turned our driveway into a mushy soup of gravel and dirt.  But the chickens are happy that we've opened their door and let them outside again.  They just have to step around the glacial lake in the middle of their run.

On Monday Hubby gets his annual physical, and I get my second COVID vaccination.  Several of my coworkers who got theirs this week were hit the next day with fevers, aches and migraines, so I'm anticipating a day of partial sick leave to recover.  Hopefully my immune system learns how to deal with the virus, and remembers the next time I'm exposed.  And hopefully the vaccine is good against the various mutations cropping up around the country.  And hopefully the rest of my family can get their vaccines before the end of summer, so we have some time to travel before the start of the school year.