When I was in West Albany elementary I recall each May Day Miss Zelinski, putting us around the May Pole and doing Russian dances. She was from Russia.

My one dance partner was John Hickey. As Miss Z., stuck me with him. Poor John, but he was gracious, and probably dead by now, and in Heaven for dancing with the fat girl.

No one ever wanted to dance with the fat girl. 60 plus years later I remain the albatross as I am thinner than all the fat people of this day and age, go figure.

Someone at work recently told me they hate me as I don’t have a belly.

Will I ever win???

Enough of that…

Have been entrenched in my garden since my 36 hour holiday. I have purchased hay and grass seed spreading it over the 1/3 acre. All my deer resistant plants are planted as well.

It has been fun but exhausting. Yesterday I leveled a section of the lot with the 1 ton of dirt.

Boy, did I feel that last night!

Even two watermelon juice merlots didn’t squelch the pain. I finally had to use the pain pills the dentist in the Azores gave me and it worked!

I’ve decided the cabin is too much for me and am in talks with 2 realtors. Looks like I’ll loose about 150 thousand but if I install a well for 20 to 40 grand I’ll only loose 100.

Big decisions.

Went to the DA yesterday about my erroneous contractor who did faulty or no work and took my money. I’m up to over 20 grand in those that “fixed” things, but even those “fixes” in some cases were a waste of money.

I thought when you got old it would be easier.

Here’s some pics of the garden.🪴

Happy May Day.

Thanks, Miss Zelinski.