46 tomatoes

I picked 46 tomatoes yesterday. There is at least 10 more that I could pick today. Probably will, if not today will get them picked tomorrow before I had back to my house for the week.  Just on the big beef tomato plant there are about 10 tomatoes the size of baseballs, at least 10 the size of golf balls, and at least 10 the size of marbles.  I haven’t even started counting the Roma’s.  The peppers have decided to take a page from the tomatoes and each plant has multiple peppers and multiple flowers yet to be peppers. Oh I forgot to mention that the tomatoes have another 100 or so blossoms on them.  The pepper plants are 2.5 feet tall or so and the tomatoes have just sprawled everywhere.  If I could or had actually stood the big beef tomato plant completely upright it would be over 5 feet tall.  It has been an incredible experience. I have learned a lot and will do some things differently next year.

According to the weather channel it is done hurricaning and raining where Navy Girl and Air Force Girl live. Now the clean up begins. I have not heard from them since they got to my brothers house, but we always go with the no news is good news theory in our family.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this weekend. It has been a while since I didn’t have any school work to do. I am done with international business and Strategic Management doesn’t start until Monday.  And that will be my very last class. Eight more weeks and I will be completely done with school.  I am so looking forward to that.  I went and got a library card in my new city and got 4 books. I am so enjoying reading something just for fun! It has been a while since I have been able to do that.  I love going to the library, all those books, all that knowledge, pure bliss.

On that note, I am going to go lose myself in a book for a while. Happy thoughts for a happy day!

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random thoughts while i procrastinate

It has been a ridiculously busy few weeks.  I am sorry about not posting sooner.  I just started a class in international business that requires massive amounts of time.  And this has been a time period where I really don’t have massive amounts of time.  After all I am apartment hunting next week.  Now before anyone panics, Hubby and I are just fine.  It’s just that after 17 months of looking for a job, one found me!  I am very excited and thrilled beyond belief.  Hubby and I will live apart for now, not that that is anything new, and we will see how things are going after a year or so.

My garden has gone crazy and I am pretty sure we will be overrun with tomatoes, which is not a bad thing.  I like tomatoes a lot.  I am going to be looking for recipe for salsa, so if anyone has a good one please let me know. I also will have quite a few peppers as well.  I am so looking forward to eating our good veggies.

Last weekend we went to my family reunion.  It was so good to see people, some of whom I have not seen in 20 years.  Reunions are so much fun, especially when you actually like each other and get along.  My family is so lucky we have never really had any feuds that I am aware of, although sometimes I am not the most aware person. I try to look on the sunny side of things.  I know that it can be annoying to some people, but it is my nature.

I am totally procrastinating doing more homework.  I guess I will have to quit procrastinating and get back to work.

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my garden update

My garden is growing like crazy.  I am posting pictures.  My radishes are growing and starting to fatten up, my beans are starting to get blossoms, and my peas are climbing up the trellis and starting to get blossoms too.  My tomatoes have gone crazy, they have leafed out beautifully and I have some of them in cages and the others are staked.  The big beef tomato plant is huge! It has thick stems and has a bunch of blossoms.  I broke a part of it when I put it in its cage.  I waited too long and had to squish it to get it into the cage.  But it seems to have weathered that pretty well.  It actually seems to have grown.  I am so excited, I love tomatoes so am looking forward to eating ones that I have grown.  My peppers are getting blossoms too.  I have had to stake up the biggest one, I am worried that it will be blown over and broken.  My parsley has sprouted and most of the garden is a lush green.

My carrots don’t seem to be doing well.  I am not sure what their problem is, but they just don’t seem to want to grow.  I have replanted one of the rows; it looks like I may have some new growth.  One of the first 4 rows came in, in a clump and the second row has 1 carrot.  I am bummed because I really like carrots.  That is one of the things I missed when we moved north, my mom used to have a garden and you could go out and pull a carrot and just brush the good dark dirt off of it and eat it.  It wasn’t sandy like it is up north.  Hopefully the carrots will get their act together and grow.  My chives didn’t come up as expected either.  I may replant those too after the fourth.  The good news is there is still plenty of growing time.

I still don’t know what I am doing most of the time when it comes to my garden, so I am probably having a lot of beginners luck.  I will take it! I am thoroughly enjoying watching everything grow.  Oh today we added three tiny little flowers, some pink pansy’s to the garden, now as Gpa says there is a splash of color to go with all of that green.  I hope all of your gardens are growing as well as mine.

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testicle toss and other fun things

Hi everyone!  Sorry I haven’t written in a while (a whole week! Mea culpa) but life has been crazy.  I am taking this class Consumer Behavior and it has had papers up to my eyeballs.  Seems like an awful lot of work just for 10 points.  *sigh* This professor has just frustrated the heck out of me.  If you follow his written instructions you get points taken off for not following the APA format when his written instructions specifically say do not follow it.  WTF?  And the tests! He puts things on the test that were not in the lectures or the textbook.  I think that is grossly unfair and unprofessional.  It took me 3 hours to do a test with 8 essay questions and 30 definitions.  It wouldn’t be so bad if I wrote the definitions but nooooo, he writes some vague semblance of the definition and you are supposed to figure out what it means.  As I told hubby, if I ever meet this guy I am going to punch him in the face and then kick him when he is down.  I expect graduate school to be hard and time consuming, but I also expect it to be fair and give me at least a fighting chance to get the answers.

Pretty Toes

I had a great time with my sisters this weekend.  We don’t all get together very often so when we do get to it is fun.  M and I went and got pedicures this weekend, I know I said I wouldn’t take pictures of my broken toe and post them anymore but they turned out so awesome, I have to share.  Btw I still have the toenail.  It is still firmly stuck in place; the new nail is growing out very nicely.  I figure another 6-8 months and the old one will come off and the new will be there.  Anyway back to my sisters and me, we played ladder golf (testicle toss) most of the afternoon.  It was a lot of fun; it took us oh six hours to complete three games.  We went to the store between games 1 and 2, and then ate dinner between games 2-3.  But we are also terrible players!  We did a round robin so everyone got to play with everyone.

My garden is doing nicely; well it was until I looked at it this morning.  We had some storms go through and they didn’t seem to be bad but my plants seem to have been run over by something.  I hope that it is just a protective measure on their parts and when I look at them later they will be upright and proud again.  I have some peppers that are teeny but getting bigger every day, and some blossoms on one of the tomato plants.  So hopefully they weathered the storm.  I will let you know.

Busy week coming up, the big project due at the end worth 25% of my grade, I always wonder if the professor actually reads any of it.  When you have 30 people in a class and each of them has to write a 5-7 page paper that’s a lot of words and pages to read.  There have also been some distant rumblings on the job front a few not instant rejections and a couple of follow ups.  Everyone think happy thoughts, it is good for you.

Have a great week and if I get inspired about something I will try to make time to write.  Happy thoughts for a happy day!

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my garden

Well for better or for worse we got the garden planted today.  Hubby was such a wonderful help, mixing in the compost and plant food and digging the holes for the tomatoes and peppers.  I planted everything else.  It took a couple days because Saturday as we were mixing the dirt it started to rain, then it poured all day Sunday, but today was beautiful.  We started working around 10 and were done by 11:30.

My garden is in four sections.   When you look at the picture, in the foreground (section 1) is one big beef tomato, a couple Roma tomatoes and what will hopefully be some parsley.  In section 2 there are a couple more Roma tomatoes, one big bertha red pepper, and smaller bell peppers.  In section 3 there are two rows of peas where the white rocks are and four rows of carrots.  Section 4 (nearest the door) has two rows of beans and four rows of radishes.  Along the edge is flowering garlic chives and onions are sprinkled in the line too.  I put the flowering garlic chives along the edge like that because I have read that rabbits do not like them and hopefully they will stay out of my garden.

I need to go get a watering can that sprinkles so I can keep it watered.  It is very wet right now so I shouldn’t have to water it till tomorrow.  We put up a little fence around it and ta da!! We have a garden.

The radishes should be the first thing to sprout, 4-6 days and the carrots will be next at about 7 days.  Everything else seems to be around 14 days for the first sprouts.  But it is supposed to be in the mid to upper 80’s for the next week so it might hasten things along.  I will keep you posted on this gardening adventure.  I have never had a garden before, so we will see how it goes.

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