Update

Okay, so since both my Mom and John's Mom have posted blogs after being away for so long, I'll post too.

I've been enjoying my crosswords lately. I copy the puzzle page out of the newspaper at work and work on it during my breaks and lunch. There's a Sudoku puzzle, Jumble, Crytoquote, and the Crossword. I used to just do the Sudoku, but it started to not last all day. Now it takes me most of the day and some of the evening to finish the page. I used to be so intimated by crosswords. Most of the time I complete about 80% of the puzzle on my own. It feels really good.

Fresh veggies

We've really been enjoying our fresh vegetables out of our garden. I like the Blue Lake Pole beans the best; they have the best flavor!

Yum - green stuff

We're finally getting produce from our garden! We've had lettuce, spinach, green and purple beans, zucchini and two cherry tomatoes. Everything's so tasty!

Look at all these future zucchini!

New kitchen light

This was our project for the weekend. And I have to say it was the speediest project ever! Our old light was cracked. Our new one is not only whole and pretty and clean, it's a lot brighter. And I mean a lot. It's like having the sun in our kitchen!

Aren't they cute?

These are my Mom's two cats. They goofy guy on top is Google. The sleek huntress on the bottom is Yahoo. She named the cats to get Dad to let her have them. She knew he would like the techie names.

It's going to take over the whole garden

At least it looks that way. I can hardly believe the zucchini is this big!

Before and after

These first two pictures are of some flower seeds I planted a little late. Most of them were so tiny they kinda got dumped in one spot.




Here's our growing vegetable garden. The corn, pole beans, tomatoes, and zucchini have just taken off like I can't believe!

New fish

We got some new gold fish and two koi. Sadly, the orange and white koi didn't make it.

Cherries

We got a LOT of cherries of our trees this year. This picking here in these pictures was about 40 lbs. We figured we got about 100 lbs of cherries total. There are still cherries on the tree, but we left them on too long. Next year we'll know to pick them all before the end of June.

I don't know what to post

Does anyone else have these days? I feel bad for not posting and letting everyone (mainly my Mom) know what's happening in my life. I try to think of what I could write about, but nothing seems important enough to put on the web. Then I feel like nothing happens that's important. Then I think about writing something like "nothing's happening, but here I am anyways." That might be alright, but then I've read so many blogs that post empty stuff like that and I wonder why they put such meaningless thoughts on their blogs. Then I wonder why we post anything at all because it's all meaningless. So I end up not writing anything because nothing's happening and it's a bunch of bull anyways.

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Please don't get me wrong. I enjoy my life, and I enjoy reading blogs. I just felt like I needed to go off for a little bit, then I'll get back in the swing of things.
Stay tuned for pictures of our garden! Hee hee.

College student!

I registered for classes today! Yeah! I'm going to take a few basic business classes and a couple classes needed for general education requirements. It's so cool that I get to start as a senior because I got to register early according to the priority schedule. However, I found out when I talked to my advisor that I have more classes to take to graduate than I thought. It could take up to two years.

One of the things I'm struggling with is what to take for this one requirement. I have to take 24 credits from an inter-related set of courses. I thought I could put my economics credits towards it and basically be done plus qualify for a econ minor. But the minor needs me to take several classes at this college.

If I went off what I enjoy and not just getting done the fastest, I could go towards math, geology, computers something, physics or chemistry, or architecture. I'm still trying to figure this out. I could change my mind about what classes to take this fall. I just need to hurry up so I register early and get the classes I want.

Walked 3.07 miles

John walked with me almost an hour this morning. We weren't expecting to be gone that long, but I remembered wrong the location of the park of which we were heading. Oh well. It was a very nice morning to walk, and we got good exercise.

Starting the garden

We started the garden a few weeks ago. I have green onions, pole beans, basil, parsley, cilantro, and sunflowers planted. I still need to plant corn, white onions, spinach, more beans (purple ones), tomatoes and peppers. I also have some flower seeds to plant.

Cute birds!

Here are some birds that have visited us. They can empty the bird feeder in less than one weekend.

Walked 1.89 miles

We walked a little later tonight. Lots of bugs out.

Walked 2.28 miles

We walked through a new neighborhood. It was a very nice evening for a walk. And John was such a good husband for dragging me out there when I didn't want to go. Yeah!

Birthday party

Here's our family celebrating my birthday. We had an easy dinner of shrimp and pasta. My Mom made a wonderful lemon cake for me.

Haircut

It's kind of hard to see in these pictures, but I got a haircut. The stylist said she cut off about five inches in the back. I love it! And the good news is I can still get most of it in a ponytail. Very cool.

Fresh new pansies

We added pansies to our front yard. They're doing quite well.

Walked 1.65 miles

I walked with my husband in the rain. Very romantic! I enjoy looking at other people's yards and gardens. I'm actually starting to recognize some plants and trees. Today I noticed lots of dogwood trees and flowering azaleas.