hot days and a lemon tree

        we have been working pretty hard this week trying to rap up our crap. and by that i mean my crap. jamie has her stuff but i have a little problem with saving things. part of my hope from this trip is to change whatever it is in my head that just cant let stuff go. obviously when you live in a trailer you cant have to much stuff. alot of the work weve been doing has been out side and right now at 9 in the morning its 90 outside. it will be well over 100 by noon and for the last couple weeks its been around 105 everyday. i dont like a/c myself but that is really hot. thats why when we do leave here were going north until were not sweating anymore. the hope is that well be leaving in about 2 weeks but you never know.

         so earlier this year i was going to atwoods to by some gloves for my job. as i was walking in a small bag caught my eye. it was full of cute little onions. they were a dollar and i had to have them. then i found some garlic too. yay me. i planted them and quickly everyone i knew started questioning me. the main question was what will you do with them when you leave. well my solution was to put them in a big box and just put the box inside while were moving and outside while were not. well all the garlic died and the onions stopped groing a few weeks ago so that made it alot easier. now i dont have to worry about plants on the trip.
         well then one day i decidedto sell my old little kayak i made when in school. It was to narrow so it fliupped very easily,leaked and was really uncomfortable. i put it up for $30. the next day i get a call saying "would you like a 3 year old ponderosa lemon tree?" so of course i say sure. so we do meet up and these people are kinda odd very nice but odd. after talking a few minutes the lady comes over to show me something. she reaches into her pink fanny pack and pulls out a stack off pictures. they are worn, the corners are anll bent. clearly she takes them everywhere. i look at the pictures and they are all of sunks. they had 7 skunks living in there house. i told them i had allways wanteds a pet racoon. she told me that racoons are bad pets. i cant see how anything could be much worse than a skunk but ive never had either. someday mabye i will.
         so now that i have the lemon tree all the questions start back up. and all the anwers are the same but of course everyone thinks im crazy just because i wanted a lemon tree. seems like they would be used to this stuff by now its not unusual for me. lucky for me the one who doesnt mind is the one im married to. she even likes my tree.