The benefits of my job

One of my favorite sayings is that one best benefits of my current job as compared to my former jobs is the great days off. I am going to enjoy those days off benefits until next Tuesday morning.

I went to the library and got these books, and to the thrift store and got these magazines (10 cents each). I am going to enjoy sitting under the air reading or doing whatever I want.

And, Helen, I did mean the swimmer. This hand cream is really greasy and would be good for helping swimmers slip through the water. I do not care enough to change the post or delete your comments.

Speaking of work, our big boss (the one over everything) has been making life hard for me. He has started blogging on the company's website. When you open up explorer, there is his blog link and it it hard for me not to click and see what he or his writer has to say. After reading, it is sometimes hard for me to refrain from making signature comments. At first, his propaganda was mostly directed to his associates (the ones he comes in contact with every day). Then, they sent a survey out to all in the email contacts asking for opinions on his bloggy thingy. I had to give my 2 cents. Mainly, I said I thought he was preaching to the choir in that surely most of management was already onboard with the things he was preaching to them about. I told him to turn and speak to the congregation. I sense a somewhat lower tone to his messages at times, but not always. Last week he asked for opinions on how our stock was doing. I said standard advise was buy low, sell high and we seem to have the first part down pat. Second part needs some work. This week, he is wanting to know what we do on vacation. I had a really, really, really, hard time resisting commenting with my favorite benefit statement. I will not be back at work till Tuesday and by then he will have up a new subject to temp me.

And, I have had new potatoes for almost 2 weeks now. I think tonight I will have hot dogs for the man, black eyed peas (from a can), fried new potatoes and fried poke stalks.

I have some good sized green tomatoes on my Early Girl tomatoes and several little sweet peppers. In 2 weeks I expect to be eating vine ripened tomatoes.

Fleta's Beauty Secret

I know you think I am just being funny, but this is a bona fide beauty tip. I buy this cream, Equate Dry Skin Cream with added moisturizers at Wal-Mart. It is a heavy cream like the old fashioned cold cream Granny Gaddy used. It is greasy. I use it on my lips in place of lip balm. I use it at least once in the morning and once in the evening on my lips and hands. Most days, I use it much more often than that. Since I started putting it on my lips everyday (over 6 months now), I have not had chapped lips and I do not have dry hands like I did. Sometimes I use it on my dry feet, but it is greasy, so you have to put on socks over it or just use it a bedtime. It really works.

It cost $7.50 and this is my second jar of it. The first tub I bought 2 or 3 years ago and I think it cost about $3.50 then. The label says compare to Eucerin Moisturizing creme. If you want to by that brand, it will set you back twice as much. I compared the ingredients in this cream, the Eucerine creme and other moisturizers around it on the Wal-Mart shelf. I think the ingredient that makes the difference is Petrolatum. I think that may be the ingredient in Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. That is probably why it is greasy and also why it actually works, as opposed to most moisturizers.

I wonder if Mark Spritz knows about this product?

Memory Tree, 2010

Yesterday, we planted this 2010 memory tree. It is a Sunglow Semi Drawf Nectarine. I know Daddy would have been happy to have a Nectarine, Debby and Mama would have loved eating the nectarines and Brother Richard would have said I should have put flowers on the graves.

Next year, I think I will try to find some cherry memory trees.