Archive for the ‘Work’ category

It’s Officially Spring!

March 27th, 2009

Today is the first day of the official Spring! It has been really nice weather all week, kind of like a little prelude to the nice weather we can expect over the next three months.

I love Spring and everything blooming, new babies at the farms, longer days so we can be outside later each day. [...]

Luck ‘O the Irish

March 17th, 2009

I love the idea of St. Patrick’s Day. A day when all of us can claim to be a little Irish and have some fun.
A party with green beer and Irish music and corned beef and cabbage and a pinching people who foolishly forget to wear something green. Shamrocks and limericks and leprechauns and dancing [...]

Promise Me An Early Spring

February 2nd, 2009

No one in my house likes Winter very much but we accept it as a necessary evil to endure on behalf of Mother Nature and the overall good. Winter is cold, wet and dark. I’ve had enough of that already and here it is only February. In these parts, Spring doesn’t normally come until the [...]

Mileage Rates

November 7th, 2008

With the price of gas going up to over $4 a gallon this summer, I thought I heard that the IRS was letting people claim a higher rate for gas mileage. For the last 6 months of the year it is supposed to be 58.5 cents. Their number is supposed to include all the cost [...]

Overtime

November 1st, 2008

We were not supposed to have to work today, but at the last minute we had some problems come up in another office. So now my boss and I have to go in to help them out. Sounds like we will be there for at least 3 or 4 hours. If we can get everything [...]