Bewildering Balderdash

Apparently I was very congested and never knew it because I am now coughing like there is no tomorrow. Plus there is the Tsunami of Snot [TM] that has appeared from nowhere as well.

Brian made a trip to the abandoned tomato garden yesterday and brought back some more tomatoes, a few butternut squash, some peppers and one very sad looking cantaloupe. He also said he picked some corn, but I have yet to see it, which means it probably got left in his his truck. He said folks are starting to run over the garden with ATVs and such so this is most likely the last of it.

Seems 2009 has been some sort of bumper crop year for daddy long leg spiders. They are everywhere I turn! Yeah, yeah, I know they eat bugs and all, I am just getting tired of having them be at every spot I look.

Time to schlep off to town for some supplies. Town in this case most likely means Culpeper, Mom. LOL

Another Sunday morning trip to the garden plot with grocery shopping & furniture buying thrown in for good measure.

Aldi's has a special buy this week on some Mission (type) living room furniture that looked decent for the price. 2 of the 3 pieces are ones we need (TV & end tables) with some pretty good pricing.

Somehow I managed to get the ex to come along with me & after scoping out the furniture, we decided to go ahead & buy one end table & the TV stand.

As a side note, I've given up on getting fruit from Aldi ... seems we end up with fruit flies every time.

Next stop was Wal-Mart (bleh) for some grocery shopping. While I am not a fan of Wal-Mart by any means, there are some things that are just cheaper there or can't get elsewhere. Big jars of Skippy Natural Peanut Butter is one such item & at the alarming rate of which the ex goes through the stuff, it's the only way to keep the pantry stocked.

Grocery shopping with the ex is very much like what I imagine it must be like to shop with a small child. Why are you buying that? Can I get this? How did this get in the cart? No, honey, we buy this brand of ; etc. LOL

Even though a shopping trip always costs more when he comes with me, I am really glad that the ex accompanied me today.

Last stop was at the garden plot. Since we had groceries in the Endeavor, I stayed in the AC while the ex went harvesting. He came back with two watermelons & a very heavy bucket of tomatoes & carrots. The ex's carrots have done really well & it was fun to see how proud he was of them.

Not surprisingly, we had tomato sammiches for lunch & cooked carrots with our dinner. (The ex made the yummiest sauteed carrots!)

Sadly the watermelon we cut into was not yet ripe (it had to be picked through as the vine was dying & one end was mushy). Maybe the other one will be better.

I have been kinda grouchy for the past couple of days & I am not sure why. Hope I have not grumbled at YOU!

Missed out on the free Slurpee yesterday (7-11) because I completely forgot about it when we went out.

Brian & I went to the garden today. It seems that Brian missed a few squash & cucumbers when he was there last. We have some ENORMOUS cucumbers. I have no idea of what to do them. Seriously - there are at least 3 that are about 18 inches! OK ... get that thought our of your head!

I plan on making stuffed squash with at least one of the big yellow squashes for dinner tomorrow night. We have some let over Italian sausages that Brian grilled the other night & I will use them for the meat in the squash stuffing.

We also picked one pepper from the first plant we put in. We have more rutabaga that are probably ready but I still have one from the last time we went. They turned out to be very bitter. Brian also has a baby watermelon on the vine! It is so cute!

Much to my surprise, it is raining AGAIN. Rain has become our new default weather here in VA. I poked my head out to watch it rain for a bit but found things to be rather steamy so I did not stay long.

Working on my resume has been my chore for much of yesterday & this morning. Any of you masochists out there that want to take a peek & give me some feedback, just let me know & I'll email a copy to you.

Since I never got around to doing to any of the fill-in posts, here's a few up-datey things...

While Brian's doctor can't seem to tell him that he's a diabetic, the pharmacist at Wahlgreens had no qualms about spelling things out clearly for us. Brian has been put on medicine to treat diabetes therefore he IS a diabetic. Hopefully this is the wake-up call Brian needs to start taking care of himself. Tony the Wahlgreens pharmacist is my new hero. He's not bad looking either. LOL

Our plot & a half at the Culpeper Community Garden will remains ours. I went out last Sunday to do some weeding & what-not. I also planted 4 more tomato plants that one of the guys at the fertilizer plant had given me. Sundays will most likely become my garden day because I would prefer not to be around CFC when its open for business. Go figure.

It dawned on me that I stay out of work until my benefits run out, I will get to bow hunt every day!

The response from some of the people I used to work with has been wonderful & humbling. It feels awfully nice nice to know that I made such an impact on folks.

Seems that I have posted some blather about a garden but not the real story.  CFC is hosting a community garden for the first time & I have been part of the project since the beginning.  It has been great to see things come together.  We have 26.5 garden plots for our first year. 

There was supposed to be 27, but since the ground that was plowed was not a perfect rectangle; there was this sort of triangle part leftover.  To keep it from being an eye-sore, I agreed to take over.  It's been dubbed "The Devil's Trangle" & I will try my hand at growing some stuff this season.

I'm a mommy! 


My first onions plants are poking through!


HAHA  - what the heck were you thinking?


Today - in the rain - I planted baby yellow squash & rutabaga plants.  Now to work on some tomatoes & mulch.

The ex leaves on his annual New Hampshire trek tomorrow morning.