Okay, don't laugh. For me, that's an Excellent garden! For a southern girl, I can't grow diddly squat outdoors. But this year.... I've got tomatoes, more tomatoes than I've ever grown in my entire life combined! I've got green pepper plants and I've got squash plants. They are all doing fantastic! I'm super excited about the whole thing and feeling a bit like Martha Stewart.
Want to know my trick to my new found ability to garden? Lay a bag of dirt down where you want to plant something. Cut what's now the top of the bag off, leaving a few inches on all four sides. Take a pitchfork (an ice pick will do in a pinch) and take your frustrations out on the bag. Go psycho on it and just stab, stab, stab the bag. This creates holes on the underside so that water can drain out and the plant roots can grow through the bag into the ground. Then plant your plant in the dirt. Presto-magic - you're farming!
But, the drama started when I discovered that the squash plants are covered in these bugs:
Honestly, I'm not sure how terrible those bugs are because I kind of forgot about them when I discovered
My morning coffee drinking chair has failed me. It's been dying a slow death since late March. Every morning, I notice that a few more .... what ever you call those plastic fake wicker tubes things have broken. I've known the end was coming, but I didn't think it would be so soon. What you can't see in the picture is that the seat is no longer attached to the front of the chair at all. It's come completely separated. The seat still holds me, but it's sort of like sitting on the couch without a cushion. You feel like your butt is going to hit ground at any moment.
Well, I guess if my chair had to die, it picked a good time to do it. For the next four days, we are supposed to be hitting temperatures between 101 & 105F. Doubt I'll be doing much porch sitting this weekend! Hey - maybe I could knit a new seat. I've got four days to try!
The next bit of drama was over dog food & laundry detergent. We've got two dogs, Minnie and Max. Max NEVER misses a meal and will in fact start barking at me if I'm as much as five minutes late feeding him. Minnie on the other hand likes to savor her meals occasionally. Sometimes she waits several hours before she eats her breakfast. The problem is, on those days, she gets mad when Max goes into the kitchen. She'll hear him on the move and will come Running from upstairs or even outside and cut him off at the pass then she starts growling and barking at him. So, today, she happened to be laying in the kitchen guarding her bowl, but not eating from it. I was pouring laundry detergent with my back to Minnie. Max entered, Minnie went wild & it startled me and I dropped the open bottle of laundry detergent. The brand new, first time it's been used, economy size bottle of liquid laundry detergent. From now on, if Minnie doesn't eat before the coffee pot finishes filling, I'm taking away her bowl.
Next, it was shower time. I reached in & turned on the shower, stripped naked, took off my glasses and stepped under the stream of water. I looked down and Holy Moses! A bug! A big, gigantic bug! A bug big enough to look gigantic when I don't even have my eyeglasses on! I immediately grabbed the shampoo bottle (Mike's of course. I certainly wasn't going to get bug guts on mine!) & started smashing it.
After that, it was time to check the email. My email won't open. I have two addresses and neither will open. They start to open. The bar goes almost all the way across, then it just stops. Uh-oh. And it dawns on me. Last night, after shutting the computer down, I accidently knocked it off the desk. Did I break it? It's had worse falls before and been fine. Was last night's fall the proverbial straw? I went over to Hubby's desktop and was able to get into my email just fine. Back to my laptop. Shut it back down, turn it back on, go to my email, and the bar starts going across, then stops just shy of being done. For both email addresses. I won't repeat here what I said then.
Finally, our IT guy wakes up (our teenaged son) and I holler for him to come help me. He messes with the computer and decides there's something wrong with Safari. For some reason, even after resetting it, Safari won't access my email. I'm going to have to use Google Chrome.
I can not count the number of times I have accidently pushed the Safari button today. And the worst thing is, the Safari screen & the Chrome screen look exactly alike, until that blue bar gets stuck & refuses to finish going across.
Oh, and we are out of chocolate and Cheetos.
It's been a very dramatic day.
Oh, I almost forgot. One good thing - I finished the first baby sock.
Sorry - the picture was taken with my phone. The phone I dropped and no longer has working sound 100% of the time. Okay, so technically, it isn't finished. I still need to Kitchener the toe but I always wait until I have knit the second sock before I Kitchener. It's just easier to compare measurements, I think. Actually, I generally wait until I have 50 or 60 socks to Kitchener. Kitchenering (boy, that's hard to say!) ranks up their with weaving in ends.
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