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    Huge tomato plants!

    July 3, 2008 - By 

    Can you believe the size of these tomato plants?!?!

    Actually, there are 2 plants in each pot. I did that because I wasn’t sure they’d even make it.

    My hubby bought this organic garden soil. After potting up the tomatoes and a bunch of herbs I discovered that it said on the back of the bag “NOT FOR USE IN CONTAINERS”. I just crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. It certainly worked well!

    The white pot has regular tomatoes, I believe Celebration was the name. The other is the little yellow pear shaped tomatoes. A childhood favorite of mine. 🙂

    To give you a little perspective, the deck railing it about 5 feet off the ground. The plants are at least 3.5 feet by themselves and the stems are at least 3/4 of an inch in diameter.

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    Yikes…hail!

    June 5, 2008 - By 

    We got hit with the first round of storms earlier this afternoon. We snapped a couple of quick shots of the hail out the doors.

    The weather folks are saying we’ll be getting another round overnight. Joy.

    Upon our preliminary inspection the, up to quarter size hail, didn’t do any real damage to our house but we’ll have the roof inspected by a pro after this week of storms in finished. Yes, I said week. The forecast is chance of thunderstorms every day for the next 7. Joy.

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    Awesome day!

    May 20, 2008 - By 

    Today has been just one of those wonderful days that everything seems to fall into place. Usually it’s just the opposite. I forget or misplace things, someone is a crabby butt, nothing productive gets accomplished, etc…you get the picture.

    Here’s my list of wonderful things for the day:

    • both kids slept in–HOORAY!
    • beautiful gift from a friend arrived (spoon book w/knife)
    • get to see my bracelet in print (pages 101 & 225)
    • baby girl graduated from preschool
    • tried welding for the 1st time — it’s REALLY fun