April 21-27, 2019

Weather | 4/21, 48°, 79° | 4/22, 0.06" rain, 59°, 75° | 4/23, 49°, 56° | 4/24, 0.09" rain, 47°, 57° | 4/25, 0.18" rain, 51°, 69° | 4/26, 46°, 63° | 4/27, 49°, 69° |

• Easter Sunday (4/21): Bought chicken feed at Farm & Home before work. Had 3 dogs canceling from dog training when I started work, but 2 more dogs canceled, due to Easter family events, so I trained 4 dogs today. It was quiet, but we did $2500 in sales...more than expected. Mary mowed.
• Monday (4/22): Woke up to thunder cracking and rain. Bought needed items at Sam's Club, Walmart, and Aldi prior to work. Did exciting dusting of shelves at work. Shane said in a few weeks, we'll move from a C to a B store, which means we'll get an assistant manager position, which will probably be filled by Molly. Trained 2 dogs, Rufus (great dane) & Thor (pitbull), at 6, and Cupcake (yellow lab) at 7. No mowing, due to morning thunderstorm, so Mary did house cleaning. My boot replacement came in via UPS. They're identical to Mary's boots and better than my last boots that only lasted 2 weeks before splitting. These boots are made in the U.S. Lost cruise control and have a brake light coming on in my Cadillac. Will have to check into that!
• Tuesday (4/23): Mary made cinnamon rolls. Checked Cadillac. Master brake cylinder is leaking...telltale sign is pealing paint under it on the firewall. Filled cylinder with brake fluid. I've had a dinger going off after turning engine off...found it to be 2 windows that were slightly down. Looked online for way to use cell service on our wireless landline phone system. AT&T sells a home phone system that will do this. Might consider eliminating AT&T's home phone service, up our cell service to unlimited data, and get this new phone system. Watched Princess Diary movies and ate cinnamon rolls.
• Wednesday (4/24): Looked at blossoming trees. Pears are done. Cherries and apple trees are blossoming. We never can buy King Arthur whole wheat flour at Walmart, because they're always out, so I ordered four 5-pound bags to pick up tomorrow just before I get to work. This way, if it's not on the shelf, but in the back, I get it. We burned boxes and bags that have stacked up in the Machine Shed for over a year. We were at the fire barrel for 3.5 hours and we still have 2 hours of burning to do. Watched the movie Much Ado About Nothing, while eating cinnamon rolls.
• Thursday (4/25): Picked up Walmart order and only got 1 bag of wheat flour...OK that doesn't work too well. Mary put more acid on blueberry plants and cleaned out bad garlic from the bags, with half a bag left, which is good for this time of year. The lilac bush is blooming.
• Friday (4/26): Called JC Auto, the junkyard in Monroe City, MO. My rims arrived today, so I drove there, bought them, and loaded them into the Cadillac's trunk. I then drove to Hannibal, bought a pizza at Aldi, looked for wheat flour at that Walmart (they don't stock it), and bought potting soil at Lowe's. Mary mowed the lane, outside of both gardens, and the inside of the near garden.
• Saturday (4/27): I worked at Petco for hopefully the last time on a non-dog training day. I bought an aquarium decoration that resembles a geode. It was in the clearance bin for $1. Mary planted pepper seeds.