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We Did It!

2008-07-14T21:56:12Z

We finally have veggies ready to eat. Okay, we could eat the tomatoes if we liked fried green tomatoes, but we don't fry anything, so we'll pretend they're ripe too! Our plants are dripping with green tomatoes, if they'd only ripen. Our cucumber vines are absolutely full. I think we'll be able to pick every day or every other day until the end of the season now. It's so nice being able to offer your neighbors (the nice ones, anyway) fresh off the vine fruits and veggies.

Look What We've Got!

2008-07-08T23:57:12Z

I know everyone is sick of cucumbers, but it's so exciting for us. It's our first attempt at anything other than a container pepper plant or two. We could actually eat these now - but Mike wants them to be ginormous before we pick them. I'm going to try and make pickles from some of the later ones.

Catalpa Beans

2008-07-08T01:34:29Z

It's the time of year when the Catalpa trees start producing their "beans". This means that my neighborhood is going to have them strung from one end to the other. To the neighborhood kids it's the weapon of choice. A smacked bean against an arm or a leg hurts.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

2008-07-07T01:12:25Z

The cucumbers are growing like crazy - they're about to take over everything. I've put 3 tomato cages in the middle of them, hoping they'll grow up instead of out and they're doing both! The tomatoes are blossoming and coming in - nothing ripe as of yet, but they're there. Peppers? Well, a few banana so far, but no bell. I'm enjoying the vegetable garden much more than I thought I would and both Allie and Mike are coming out and helping with it, so it's a hit.

Mobile Blog Entry

2008-07-03T19:40:01Z

My best friend and I are at the Cardinals game. They stink tonight. It was 11 - 0 Mets in the 5th. Yowzers. Crappy picture from the 4th terrace of Busch Stadium via cell phone. It's been storming and I didn't want to bring my camera.

Kidlet ala Sepia

2008-07-03T02:18:22Z

She's growing up so quickly. This is after mowing the grass -we're slave drivers, you know - and she's all sweaty with her hair in clips, ponies and all over the place. I love her eyes. She's got naturally long, long black lashes and her blue eyes are starting to get the tiniest bit of hazel around them. She'll have the perfect blend of my blue and Mike's hazel pretty soon, I believe.

Cucumbers, Get your Cucumbers

2008-07-02T02:42:41Z

My peppers have some kind of crud - I think they came that way because the plants I gave my dad seem to have the same thing. They were flourishing like crazy for the first week and then all of the leaves except the very top fell off. We first suspected squirrels or rabbits, but then they started getting spots on the remaining leaves. I'm sad because I had 90% of my garden as red, green and yellow peppers. *wah* Next year I want to grow them from seed. My cucumbers, however, are taking over everything. I'm tempted to pull all the peppers and let them go crazy. I've got two tomato cages in the middle of the cukes hoping they'll climb up instead of spread out. So far it's not working. I've been carefully weaving the branches of the plant, but so far no luck.

My Hero

2008-06-29T04:06:02Z

I'm cheating today because I spent the morning walking in the annual Walk to Defeat ALS. My mother was one of the "lucky" people who somehow got this disease. No one knows how, why or where, just that it's very, very rare and it's even rarer for a 60 year old female with no family history to get it. Woo hoo. If she were going to beat the odds, we'd have rather it been as a lottery win or something like that. We'd always been close, but if one positive thing happened because of her diagnosis, it is that it made my mama and I a team. We held each other up for the entire time she was ill. We made a pact that we would not cry after that first week and we didn't - at least not in front of each other. On Friday, August 31st, I cried again. She told me that she was tired and that it hurt to get up every day. She said she needed me (someone! anyone!) to tell her that she could finally quit fighting. I lied to her (one of the very few times I ever did) and told her that I understood and that it was okay to let go, that I would take care of my dad and that everything would be okay. Two days later she went into a coma. It was her 47th wedding anniversary. She died the next night. That's ALS. Having to tell someone you love it's okay to let go and to quit fighting. ALS Sucks. We HAVE to find a cure. This picture was taken June 30, 2007. 2 months and 3 days before she passed away. I walked today so that some other daughter doesn't have to tell her loved one that it's okay to let go. Letting go stinks.

It's a tough job...

2008-06-27T16:32:59Z

It's finally a gorgeous day today, so I'm working on the covered patio. I was going to work on the big patio, which is uncovered, but it's too sunny. Yay! Too sunny. After all the rain we've had in Missouri it's wonderful to say that. It's supposed to start raining again later this afternoon, but I'm not going to think about that now.

Cats and Gardens

2008-06-18T18:10:35Z