Sunday was a bit rainy but I spent that time working on the pumpkin order and some sidejob work. I snuck out for a few hours for spinning guild which was lovely and I got to show off my sweater (post coming when I have a chance to type it up) but that was it. I was supposed to take monday off work but we had 21F predicted monday night and the early strawberries had buds that are vulnerable in the 21-23F range. So I spent most of monday hauling frost covers out of the barn and getting them set up in the field. I couldn't spread them out because it was too windy but I could drag them into the field so they were ready. Plus some other things that needed doing. Then monday night after crafting when the wind died down, dad and I went out and spread them over the field. They look fine so far which is good. But we might not see the damage until they bloom. This weather is so bad, I suspect all the stone fruit is gone this year.

I've run out of dinner food, I have the supplies but not the time. I come in from work around 6:30pm and my mom has already taken over the kitchen and there's no room to make my food. This is part of the problem we're having cohabiting. None of us eat the same food, my mom cooks for herself and my dad basically every night. So I can't use the kitchen at my optimal eating time pretty much every night. I think I need to do some kind of offset schedule some days. Wish they'd just freaking move out. But my dad did work on the floor the other day so there's that. Not a lot because the wood wasn't dry or something but he did do some of it. I have a desperate need for another adult presence in my life that is not my parents. this is why people get married or some nonsense I guess. 

I was planning to do some baking this morning so I could have some snacks for the week and pastry cream but my dad was going to show me how to use the sprayer but he's not ready to do that yet. I can't take a full day because I have an employee coming this afternoon and I was going to work alongside him on mulching. I have employees working every afternoon this week. So I'm not baking this morning. New plan is to make rice in the rice cooker and dump beans on it plus something I can scrounge out of the fridge. 

I might be able to take part of saturday off since it looks like it's going to rain. I'm definitely struggling with a lack of consistent routine, I feel like I had one last year but I can't seem to find it this year. Maybe I didn't. Maybe April sucked ass last year too. The neighbor who helps us with some tractor work snapped two cylinders on the plow yesterday and I know he feels bad but also holy crap. There are some contributing factors like the plowing tire being flat but in the end, it was probably that he was backing up with too much pressure on the back hydraulics. Two! That was all of the cylinders we had on hand, so I need to figure out where to get more or if we can repair these. I think the tractor supply store has the correct size and I can get at least one to get the plow up and moving again. We have three pieces of equipment that use those cylinders: the plow, the disks and the grain drill. Two vital things, very important. Our strawberries arrive next week, planting the first weekend in may. 

My bluetooth ear protection also died the other day. It was fritzing slightly, if I poked one of the wires, it would only put sound through one headphone, but then it just died. The battery still charges but it won't turn on. I took it apart and nothing appears wrong or broken but I haven't had a ton of time to figure it out either. I ordered two new pairs which should arrive today so that's good. I tried doing earbuds under hearing protection but earbuds now hurt my ears too badly to use them anymore.  

anyway, my dad is finally ready, so I gotta go