What’s Growing
My cat was curious… What’s growing in the Garden?
The Green Beans are doing well, but so are the weeds. I’m still determined to keep this garden of mine organic, and pesticide free, but I have to get out and weed everyday. Especially after it rains, like it is today…
The Cucumber have been moved to a new garden, and they love their new location. I think I have about 7 happy cucumber plants this season.
Okra is new to the garden this year, and I have at least 5 plants that are doing well. I hope to get a pretty good crop of Okra this Summer, we love it at our house.
Sweet Corn is also a new addition this year, and it is growing like crazy!
Is it a Watermelon plant or a Cantaloupe plant? How I wish I could find my notes that tell me what I planted there…
The little yellow Squash have also been moved to a new garden this year too. I have at least 4 plants that have sprouted.
This year’s garden is much different from last year’s. I have fewer plants, but I planted many more. I think it is due in part to the excess of rain that we have had, I just don’t know if the little seeds could handle that much water. I also counter-planted the vegetable garden with a butterfly garden, but no little flower sprouts just yet. I’m anxious to see those Sunflowers and Pumpkins sprout too.
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Strawberries, Strawberries, Strawberries
Thursday I had a phone call, and it was my good friend Maggie. She wanted to see what we had planned for the morning, and if we wanted to come over for a bit. All of her kids were playing in the backyard, and she was busy picking strawberries. We headed over to help.
Boy was I glad to help. We picked strawberries for about an hour and a half, and I got to bring home a big bowl of fresh from the garden Strawberries.
Some of them were made into Strawberry Shortcake.
A few made their way into Strawberry Oatmeal muffins.
But James favorite was the Strawberry Cake! Too Good!
Some didn’t make it home to go into delicious recipes cause they went straight off the plant and into my tummy, oh so yummy. Thanks again to Maggie for all of the yummy garden goodies!
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Wishing everyone a safe and happy Memorial Day!
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While Friday night was amazing, it didn’t come without its pitfalls… We had decided to take my car up to Kansas City, and I had a few errands that I needed to run before my Mom got here. I already had a full tank of gas, and I thought I would run out for snacks for the kiddos, and then we would run to Wal-Mart to rent a movie or two. I loaded up the kiddos and we picked up snacks, and then we were off to Wal-Mart. We got our movies, and made our way back to the car, and then something that really made me mad happened. My car wouldn’t START!!!!! Seriously I just got this car back “fully repaired”, and it has to freaking die in the middle of the Wal-Mart parking lot, oh what a mad Nico I was.
Thade was really upset, but James was on the way to pick us up. When James arrived, we cleaned everything out of the car, and locked it up tight. Now I needed to make a quick trip to the car dealership again, and believe me I wasn’t too happy about it!
So determined to make it to Kansas City and have an awesome night, I quickly adjusted my attitude, and put my hope that the dealership would get my car repaired, and quickly. We had so much fun at the show, and we made it home before it was too late. When we got home, my chin started itching, I figured I had a mosquito bite, and I wasn’t too worried. As the night went on, my chin started to really hurt, right where my mole is (my mom calls it a beauty mark, that cracks me up).
The next day my chin was itching like crazy, and my mole had swollen over the night. When my Mom saw it, she said that doesn’t look right, and I’ve seen that mole since you were 10. James also thought that my chin looked a little funny, we decided a trip to Urgent Care was in order, so he watched the boy’s and I headed to the hospital.
It wasn’t busy at all, and I got in to see the Doctor quickly. No sooner had I said that my mole really hurt, she looked right at me and said, that mole looks super infected, and it needs to come off and it needs to have a biopsy as soon as possible. Great, I was a little freaked out, but they are going to get me in to see my Doctor on Wednesday. I don’t know if she will remove the mole then, or if she will schedule the removal for later. I’m thinking about having another mole taken off as well, before this other one starts acting crazy too. Just another day…
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