On this Rainy Day...

....I am posting this picture I recently took of my blooming in all their "glory" Morning Glories! I tried to get the sunrise in the background. Perhaps another A.M. I will get up before 6:30A.M. to get a really good one.

....I am deciding what to do with all this basil, dry it, make salsa, spaghetti sauce or.....

....I am loving this picture of the bucket loads of tomatoes I picked the last couple of days which are sitting by the window waiting to be made into spaghetti sauce and salsa.

....I am smelling the onions Jason and I harvested last night....I had to keep going back to get more buckets to put them in. I set up a card table, laid down newspaper and I am letting them dry good before storing some of them, and putting some into the sauce and salsa, eaten on pizza, in taco salads, and pretty much everything else, because onion goes with everything right?
....thinking about how I only have a jar of salsa left, therefore, I better get the food processor out and start chopping away at all the veggies over flowing in my kitchen/house/fridge.

.....So much to do: Salsa, spaghetti sauce, label pantry, (which I have been organizing) go through clothes in my closet and organize/get rid of, individually wrap the granola/energy bars Jason made with my last night, fold the last load of laundry, balance the checkbook, run to the bank, get the sweet corn from the neighbor and freeze, print notes off for school, (starts Monday) prepare for our camping trip, ohy....I just had to get that all out in the open...

breathe...ok.....much better.

Don't you just love being busy? I do.

This is how you do it...

when you and your sister In-law have the same birthday!

Your sweet little Mom/Mother n-Law takes you to buy a new pair of jeans...and then pedicures! Can you tell we are enjoying the pampering, good company, and a relaxing night with each other?
And then you all wear the matching flip flops mom bought and attached an invite for the night to. Look close and you will see our matching toe rings too....awww so cute! But the cutest thing the whole night was the pictures my brother sent my sister in-law of their little girl...he took Lilah out for supper, a bike ride, and a bath, don't you think he is a pretty sweet dad? And I am pretty sure Lilah has everyone wrapped around her cute little finger! But there wouldn't be any other way.

Do you share a Birthday with anyone?

It pays to GARDEN...

Last evening when Jas was mowing the lawn (which takes 4 hours) and after I cut up the watermelon and took the rind out to the woods to compost I headed over to the garden...even though during my A&P class got a little out of control, it is still producing. I took my two buckets and pretty much filled them....mmmm...don't you just love all those colors!!!! We had taco salads last night with all the fixins from the garden, another night this week we will have a homemade fully loaded veggie pizza and this A.M. I am going to whip up some salsa that I can perhaps share with some special people. And I am thinking about trying some sun dried tomatoes...we will see if it works, BLT anyone?

What has your garden produced?

Millions of peaches....

and scrump-shish- peaches & cream pie...

I spent the day with my mom and we baked 2 peach pies, went grocery shopping (I saved $15.95 with my coupons) went to my Grandpa Ralph's 85th Birthday party, laughed at my little niece dancing a the pizza place, did some shopping, and had a good time!

Doesn't this look delish?

Letting the pies cool...

Going for a walk (except I couldn't walk because I didn't have any walking shoes with) I rode my Aunts "old blue" bike that is a two speed, it shifts gears when you push the peddles backwards, pretty dang amazing!

Paulette, mom and Behle on their nightly walk around town.

Have you baked lately?