Cooking and Cleaning
Saturday June 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pmWell I haven’t gotten to the cleaning part, but in less than an hour and half I’ve marinated 3 steaks (Sesame-Soy Sirloin from Fix, Freeze, Feast), put ingredients for cinnamon rolls in my breadmaker, and that’s working away and made a pizza which is now baking in the oven (dough from Publix bakery & fresh mozzarella). Still to come, Tortilla Chicken Soup and Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies to flash freeze. I can’t wait!
I read an article in the paper today (and by reading the paper, I mean checking out the RSS feed from Florida Today, technology rocks!) that its time to start planning your fall gardens. I’ve had my garden planned since last fall! So hopefully I can start marking out my plan in the grass and start planning what I want to grow in the fall!
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Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pmI finally re-planted my small flower bed in front of the house. Last fall, or even late summer, I ripped everything out of our front beds because I hated looking at it. Then I realized the beds were full of sand, rocks and garbage from the house being built. Well I want things to grow properly .. so I didnt replant right away because I wanted to dig it all out and add in good dirt. So .. thats what I did this weekend. I dont have pictures because it’ll look prettier once stuff takes root. Plus, its not much to look at .. there are only 8 plants .. but I’ll take a picture soon.
But until then .. I’ll leave you with these great gardening tips from Christopher Walken:
If you haven’t seen last weeks SNL .. go check out the clips on NBC.com .. especially the Walken family reunion 
Weekend Roundup
Monday April 7th, 2008 at 11:23 amI took a break from working on the computer this weekend to find this:
Big Boy quickly ran over to let me know that he was innocent
And then pointed out the guilty party (like I didn’t catch her in action, ha!)
Daisy was so busted!
Next I’d like to introduce you to … THE TALLEST WEED EVER!!! This thing has been growing in our backyard for a few months, and then all of a sudden I realized that its freakin’ huge. See, our land slopes down just before the wetlands starts, its a good 4 foot drop .. so it was easy to underestimate the size of this thing. So I finally went down to check it out yesterday, and realized its probably TWICE my height .. yeah .. I’m saying this thing is def. over 10 feet tall, maybe closer to 12!
Its hard to get a photograph of a green weed infront of green trees and green grasses, so I tried my best to darken everything around it. Anyways, there’s a big palm next to it, I tried to draw lines on how much taller that palm is to me.
This was just a cool perspective .. the one on the left is the top of the weed, with pretty sky behind it. The one on the right is more of the weed, taken from about my eye line.
Then I tried to get in close .. because guess what .. this sucker is covered in thorns! And .. to my surprise, its also apparently covered in lady bugs.
And for those of you who dont live around here .. yesterday it rained .. alot .. and by alot I mean probably 2 feet of rain. I’m not kidding! It rained from 5pm until 12:30am .. pouring the entire time! I might be dramatic, but I really think we easily got over 6 inches, probably 8 inches of rain yesterday. So its spring, and it rained .. which means the frogs are going nuts! Our little wetland is filled with frogs, and their chorus is ridic. loud, especially at night. Last year I even had trouble sleeping through it. So when I woke up this morning and it was still going on, I decided it was about time to buy me some rain boots and check out what all the commotion was about.
When we bought this land, way back in ‘06 (heh) this area was actually a dirt path, you could walk it all the way back to the forest. Then sometime last year it rained, and I haven’t been out there since .. until today.
This guy was looking for the frogs too
This is what I’ve determined to be the frog oasis .. you see this little patch of nice greenery is beautiful all year long, even when everything else is all dried up. So I believe this is where all the little suckers live.
Unfortunately, the water was just too darn deep after last night rain .. I was too close to going over my boots, so I decided to turn back.
And I never saw one darn frog. Seriously, there has to be THOUSANDS of frogs out there with the amount of noise they’re making .. and not freakin’ one of them jumped out at me. I really expected to walk out there and see them jumping from reed to reed, squatting on patches of grass, just posing for my camera .. and I got nothing. Oh well .. maybe when things dry up a bit I can make it out to the oasis and see if my theory is correct
