Still Waiting

Still Waiting was Originally Posted on November 16, 2012 by lavarock

I still have one of the puppies to sell and placed an ad in the newspaper today for a week. She is really sweet but I do not need an extra mouth to feed.

Black female Labradors just don’t seem to be in great demand out here, but yellow and chocolates are. In this litter there were chocolate and black puppies.

I reduced the price and hope that someone steps forward and wants her. I am hoping it is someone on this island, because she is getting a bit too tall for the shipping crates I currently have and might have to find a bigger (and more expensive one).

Also, I am STILL trying to recover my computer with Carbonite and can’t again tell you how much I dislike that program. They will not get another cent from me. Imagine, 3 weeks or so and I’m still trying to recover the files, and KI will have to reinstall 100 programs, thus clobbering some of the files and configurations.

I have a few more days before the Gov’ment money ends up in my bank account. It will be enough to cover my mortgage, but I may still have to rob a bit out of my retirement funds. Then within a year the cash flow begins to get better. The mortgage is soon done, the tractor will be paid off, and so on. I actually created a cash flow spreadsheet having columns reflect items such as electric costs, water, mortgage, food, payments and s on. Then I created a few (a very few) income columns with coffee sales, puppy payments, Social Security and so on. Then it is just having all the columns add together and post in the left-hand column. Being in spreadsheet format, I can also graph the fiscal cliff (so to speak).

I can’t remember if I mentioned it, but my first star fruit was fairly ripe, until the puppy decided to pull it off the bush and start running around with it in her mouth. I am waiting for a couple of rollinia to ripen and then it is party time.