Catching Up

Today is Saturday, one day before our one year wedding anniversary.  Jeff and I are at Joe's...a little coffee dive in East Atlanta Village.  It's fairly quiet in here today.  Jeff is working on some writing and i'm finally catching up on this blog of mine.  the DINKS again post was starting to get on my nerves because it's been up for three months now.  It's raining outside, which i'm so glad about.  for the garden, and because it gives me an excuse to stay in and get some updates done.

If the sun comes out again today, i'll go outside and take some pictures of the back yard as it looks now.  it was fun to look at some of the pictures I took early this spring/late winter because we hadn't done anything to the yard then and now it looks so much better!  we did a little makeshift landscaping with dug up rocks and loads of mulch.  we planted 9 thuja green giants along the back fence, we started a new bean bed along the side of the shed (there's also okra in this bed) and the compost is finally somewhat organized....can you organize compost? 

I've got so much planted this year and can't wait for it to all start taking off.  Mainly at this point because i've got some little munchers that keep threatening to take down my tomatos and kale before it has a chance to get strong.  but, i don't want to use any pesticides.  and, i haven't gotten around to making this soap/cayenne pepper conconction that I've heard is effective.  

Clare, i also heard about the whole plant tomatos on their side thing...i'm trying it now.  we'll see how that goes.  and, my peas are like candy too!  I didn't plant a ton so i'm sure none of them will ever make it into the house for a meal, they'll just make for a great little snack while i weed.  

Mom, i planted the blue sage by the garden.  am still trying to decide where to put the blackeyedsusans...or were they cone flowers? can't remember.  

I'll take pictures of all this stuff and post when the sun comes out.

Now i'm going to read this book:

and make faces at this man:

this outfit

belonged to my mom when she was probably my age.  it ended up being the perfect attired for jeff when he DJ'd for youth group dance a couple months ago.  hot stuff huh?  oh, also, he's wearing my hemp necklace from highschool-heh.

Remember that time it snowed so much?

it was a sunday and it just snowed and snowed.  abe and lita loved and went a little bit bonkers in the yard.  i learned a few years ago that abe gets frisky in the snow (we were in north carolina and it snowed over christmas and abe played and played)

Dogs, Food, Massage and Food

These two like to keep me company when I'm cooking.  

I was making spring rolls.  The first time i made spring rolls, the recipe said to soak the spring roll wrappers for 30 seconds and then pat dry.  well.  that did not work.  i ended up with a big ball of wet, drippy, doughy mush by the end.  and out of a package of 40 spring roll wrappers, i salvaged about 6.  this time, i just let them thaw out, spritzed them with a little water from the sink sprayer and rolled away.  much much more successful.  these are old pictures, from during Lent.  when jeff is fasting, i sort of halfway do it and try to cook vegan meals so it gives me a reason to try new recipes that i wouldn't normally try...like spring rolls.  

Donna gave Jeff a massage one night.  she's so good at her profession.  

This was another lenten meal.  I think it was thai red curry with tofu.  can't remember exactly...it was a while ago.  this and the recipe for spring rolls (I think) both came out of the google cookbook that jeff brought home for me.  the chef at the google home office cooks healthy, organic, blah blah meals for the staff everyday b/c they have a theory that if the staff eats right, etc. they will be more productive, happy employees.  hrmph.  imagine that?  can i please work for a company that knows things like this and actually does something about it?  

Lita Beeta.