Days go by

Another week in the books here in Illinois – the farmer’s fields are slowly transitioning from brown to green as the corn and soybean plants have started pushing their out of the ground. It has been nice and warm during the day, but still cool enough in the evening where we haven’t had to turn on the a/c or the heat. That makes our natural gas and electrical bills very low for the past month.

Speaking of bills, our last natural gas bill was so low that without all the stupid accounting fees, delivery fees, postage fees, flux capacitor fees, employee pension fees, printer toner cartridge fee, and all the other crap they tack on, we would have only owed $1.87 for the natural gas that we used. Instead, the bill was 10x that with all the other crap tacked on to it. Crazy, right?

We run into this every month for our house in Georgia that we still haven’t been able to sell. A house without power can’t be shown to possible buyers, so we have to have that active. The water has to be on in case someone needs to use the restroom while they are there… so we end up paying a bunch of stupid fees just to keep the utilities active for very, very little usage. It is so annoying. I wish someone would buy that house!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I finished planting our veggie garden last weekend, now we just need some rain to help the plants get established. I might have to build another rain barrel like I had in GA, so that I don’t have to use keep using water from the faucet for the garden. Why should I pay for water for the garden if I don’t have to? Yes, I am being a bit of a cheap-a$$, but does that really surprise any of you?

The Spring semester is over, so the CFO is on “vacation” until her summer class starts in late June. Even though she isn’t teaching, she still has a ton of writing/research to do, but that won’t keep her from heading out of town a few times… leaving me home alone. It must be nice to have so much time off!  She’s going to Virginia, the beach in North Carolina and Vegas, all without me. Not fair!
The good news for me is that the Indy 500 is next weekend and I will be there to see it in person… Finally, something to look forward to!

I played the 9 hole course that is near out house last night... I'm still hitting wildly inconsistently, but having a lot of fun doing it.  After one particularly crappy tee shot on a par 4, my second shot from the fairway was very nice for a beginner and it ended up on the green. Since it was my best shot of the evening, it (and the setting sun) got to recorded it with the iPhone... Tiger Woods I am not (yet).