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Okay, I'll try to keep up with a picture-less entry. Pat's been out on the King Salmon Platform for a week now, and hopefully will be home this weekend. In the meantime, I've started working at Trinity Greenhouse. I am absolutely loving it! It is so nice to be surrounded by growing plants and thawed soil. It smells so good! In fact, the other day a gal came in and literally sniffed up the soil. Later she did have to blow it back out! My legs, back, and neck are getting back into the swing of work, but not painlessly. I miss my husband's back rubs. I have been trying to give Bella all the attention she needs, but I fear I'm not quite up to par. For anyone who thought our dogs would become our "kids," fear not. I have to clean up far too much hair to get too attached. All that said, she has been doing well. In fact, she just told me she needs to go outside...okay, I'm back. She needed to do her bedtime ritual, and now is in her house under our house! I tried to upload pictures, and it timed-out, so "maybe on another day!" Fortunately, the weather is unusually mild, so my hair didn't freeze while we were outside. In fact, it's been raining lately, and with all the snow-pack, it's making it very slippery. I'm breaking out my kramp-ons - removable cleats for the shoes. I had to borrow a set from by boss today while transporting newly potted roses to another greenhouse. I'm already picking one out to put on the deck. I'm trying to keep a reign on myself for all the potential gardening I could do. I'm not one to go bonkers on yard work, so my plans are actually to diminish the maintenance on the yard by letting about half of it go back to it's natural state. I don't want to mow that much! My biggest temptations will be trees. I have so many that I'd love to try, but I have a limit to my landscaping budget! I have a sneaky suspicion that my budget will be swallowed by a certain garage that has yet to be built. Oh well. I'll be happy that Pat has a place to do his hobbies that is out of the house that I have to clean. I think he will be, too! I have to put in a plug for my sister-in-law, Lesli, as she gave me a tip for quick clean ups with the swiffer-vac. I finally got one, though I had to wait til a friend of mine could pick it up for me in Anchorage. Well worth the wait. It is working fabulously, and it makes me happy! On that note, it is past my bedtime, and I dearly need my rest. Sorry for the lack of photo's. Someday...!