Written by Ed. – We’re still alive. June was just a busy, tiring month, and the last week or so we’ve either been busy with around-the-house stuff or we’ve been out of town. But we’re still here.
So after two weeks of graveyard, the plant finished apricot season and closed up for two weeks, waiting for peaches to finish ripening and be ready for canning. That means everyone gets laid off for two weeks, which meant Kristi got two weeks off in late June and early July, which meant we got an anniversary! For a long while we didn’t think we would get one. At first we thought the plant would work right through, that she’d be on the 7-days-a-week graveyard until September.
To give you an idea of what that’s like, we sleep in shifts, her waking me at 6am when she comes home from work; I get up, we have breakfast together and then she goes to sleep for the day. I work, tiptoeing around the house all day to keep the house quiet. She wakes at 5pm or so, we have dinner together, she goes to work at 9pm, I go to bed an hour later. Rinse and repeat.
We get, at best, four hours a day together. It’s tough. So when we realized that we would in fact have lots of time together during and around the Independence Day weekend (our wedding anniversary is on the 5th), we knew we would spend some money and get the hell out of town.
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