Staughty Chapman!

I love this picture. It came from Katie (Staughty's mom) while she was at the hospital w/ him (he had pneumonia & is better now)... The pic came with the caption "the albuterol has kicked in".

egg tortilla, fried green tomatos, roasted garlic toast with fontina cheese...and black coffee.

i made dinner for donna. here's a picture of. and one of me too. hi.

cousin teresa's wedding

donna and krista. the stullken lips.

the place we stayed.

pesto for freezing.

augusta 70.3

race day morning. 5 am.

smart dogs. kept sleeping.

important preparation includes: wet suit, swim cap, pee in wet suit, let pee trickle down legs inside wet suit, followed by washing it down with water.

the swim!

the bike!

the run!

the mom!

what a day. she finished in 5 hours and 51 seconds. she was tenth in her age group. what a stud.

plant swap, vegetables, sandwiches

a couple weeks ago i went to a plant swap with mom. her garden club put it on. i came home with some great plants. i'll take some pictures of them to post. here's mom and abe relaxing by the merchandise.

a family that has a big garden and chickens was there selling eggs and trying to give away this silkie...i'm sure if i'd already had chickens, i would have taken it!

snuggly dogs.

jeff and i are officially riding the green smoothie train in the mornings now. dad even likes them! (an apple, some pineapple, a few carrots, a minnela, frozen banana and lots of spinach or kale or lettuce). before:

after:

i thought this picture made almond milk look scrumptous.

this mantis kept me company in the kitchen for a few hours one night while i cooked before it flew behind the stove. it thought he was a goner, but 3 days later, he showed up again. i strongly encouraged him to go find a nice perch on the basil outside, so he agreed and stayed there for a while. what a creature.

you would have used blueberries for eyes too, right?

sweet red peppers! like candy!

a little tomato endulgence.

farmers sandwichs (good bread, a little mayonnaise, caramelized red and vidalia onions, basil, sliced tomatos and farmers cheese, melted)

my favorite summer meal: the tomato sandwich.

i miss summer.

Art and Orchid

well, he's pretty wonderful. jeff really spoiled me this year for my birthday. He got me some art i'd been eyeing and this beautiful orchid...which he had delivered to my work. i'm a lucky girl. oh, and he also got my bike fixed up!

Garden now

I took these today. All the lettuce is out of the front bed and there are little round carrots perculating now in that bed, plus a few volunteer zinneas and some late okra.

tomatoes are in the front left, peppers behind that, herbs and chard on the back right. In the very front are strawberries, herbs and the squash.

Here's a closeup of the squash. the vines are almost done now...except for a few late bloomers that are still green. I consoladated a little today so that i could mow underneath them. the grass was getting so long around the squash that they were all completely buried! I think when it's all over, i'll have gotten about 15 butternuts out of this mystery vegetable.

here are the tomatos covered in hose and cayanne pepper, so far, it seems to be working.

peppers that are supposed to be a deep red color....i'm waiting for them to turn very impatiently.

The purple peppers start to turn purple pretty quickly...here's one that hasn't turned all the way but has definitely started.

check out this pretty little zebra tomato!

Today's harvest. I even got some flowers out of it!

harvest cooked!

Katie and Eula B. and Krista came over yesterday for a breakfast visit that lasted until 4 pm. The time passed so quickly...we had lots to catch up on.

Here's Donna and Euley.

Spice Cabinet

Jeff and I went yardsaling the other week and picked up this little beauty.