Happy 4th of July

I'm going to N.C. for the 4th of July weekend and wanted to pop in and say, Have a great weekend everyone!  They will be having fireworks on fri, sat, and sun.  and the new Town Point Park is done being renovated so they will be having Harbour Fest and the 4th of July celebration at the same time.  Too bad I won't be here to see the fireworks.  S and P will be manning a booth representing S's business called, Young Chefs Academy and will be selling cupcakes.  The sale of the cupcakes will go to charity.  Ya get a cup cake choice of some frosting in a baggie of which the tip is cut off so you can decorate the cupcake then you get a choice of sprinkles.  Ha, sounds like fun.  They invited me to help out but I'm outta here in the next couple of hours.  It would be a nice way to see the fest from the inside out so to speak.  Well, Have a great weekend everyone!!!!  TAYL

WOWZERS   Now that it hasn't been raining as much we have been having these awsome cloud moments.  In the mornings its just awsome how the big fluffy clouds are up against the soft blue sky.  Just haven't had the time to take any pics in the morning but here is a pic of a sunset from outside the shop.  P and I have been putting on our tennies and going for walks after work now that it isn't pouring and flooding around here, LOL.  Wish I would have taken some before and after pics of the garden area I was working on.  Okay gotta get a hitch in my git-a-long since I should be out the door by now, ARGH.......... TTFN

Summer Time

Happy first day of summer and Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers out there.  Today will be the longest day of the year and from then on the days will slowly get shorter, Wha .  I hate it when the days get shorter and it gets darker sooner, so will have to enjoy it while it lasts.  Was driving home the other day from work and thought to myself, wow its still lite out and then it dawned on me that its almost June 21 and the longest day of the year, Woo Hoo!  Today was wash laundry and hang it out on the line day, and it was a great day for it.  Nice and warm and breezy all day .  Then got busy and did some more sapling pulling up and weeding and then washed the siding on one side of the house, argh, me aching neck, LOL and also cleaned out the gutters.  Tommorrow I'll be pulling up all the poison ivy that is out here.  Ha, I went and pulled up everything else and saved all the poison ivy for last so I can just throw the gloves away after messing with it.  Then maybe I'll get around to edging.  I've been thinking about putting in bricks for a new edging but have seen how people just dig like a channel and bring the mulch up to that.  That would be good but all the straight edges are going to be soft curves from now on since its just plain easier to keep up when mowing etc.  Happy First Day of Summer you Xangans  TTFN

cruciferous

Yes, cruciferous.  Have you had your cruciferous vegetables today   Well, those are things like brussles sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, turnips, chinese cabbage.  Apparantly these are like really good for you and have been shown to help reduce the risk of cancer.  Duh, so like eating healthy natural foods is good for you.  LOL, it always cracks me up when a study comes out showing that nutrients from natural foods are found to be good for you.   That just seems like a given to me.  So eating all that processed stuff is like bad for ya, Who Knew, tee hee.  What's all this cruciferous talk about.  Well, I've been craving cabbage (a cruciferous veggie) and have been making coleslaw.  Have made two batches lately and it is sooooooo yummy.  So far its been with carrots julienned in it.  Usually I make my own dressing but have found this Marzetti all natural slaw dressing and it is LIP SMACKIN AWSOME .  If you haven't tried it and you like slaw then check it out.

Tada, here is a pic of the first add-a-bootie sewn up and waiting to have some ends darned in and it fits just right. These would be great schlep around the house/bed socks. 

Thanks spinnermom for your help and info on this project.  Now I just gotta make another one.  These would make great gifts.  Now that I've tried this on I can see its time to trim me toe nails, argh.  TTFN

Snail movement has been detected......

WOO HOO, at exactly 5 minutes till 9am I saw this little like antenna type thing emerging from the snail shell and it was like emerging and waking up I suppose.  This here is the Betta fish that I decided to put by my bed on my desk.  At work there was this ivy bowl with pebbles in it in the back room and I saw it and thought well lets put some philodendron clippings in it so we can start rooting from the plant I brought over from my shop and get more plants from the mother ship.   So went and washed it out and got the clippings in it and thought, hmmmm, it would be cool to have one of those betta's in here.  So P (friend at work) got to talkin and after a grewling day at work on sat. we went to PetSmart cause she needed cat litter and food anyway and I ended up getting a betta.  Ha, so we got back to the shop and the bowl had already been sitting with the water and plant clippings in it for 2 days already so I just put him in there.  He swished all around spreading out his fins and seemed to like his new digs .  Oh, also got a snail to go in there too.  A gold one.  Never bought a snail before but they had them in green, gold and black, who knew.  So got a gold one.  Then we plopped  in the snail and it just kinda sunk to the bottom and didn't do anything.  Then we put in a betta food fish flake to see what would happen.  Well it took a few seconds for the fish to notice and then almost as if it could smell it or something it like perked up and got all excited and headed towards the floating flake.  Then it circled around and looked at it planning its attack and gulp we witnessed its first feeding, LOL.  You would have thought we were freeking 5 years old, LOL.  It was too fun.  It was all quiet in the shop and the lights were out except for the light from the window and we just sat there watching this fish.  It was so relaxing.  Ha, then the snail decided to go into action and made its way up the bowl and just sat there for awhile.  This will prove to be interesting when kids come in and they can see it and check it out while they are getting their haircuts.  Getting this one fish set up at the shop got me to wanting one at home so yesterday I went by the thrift shop and got another ivy bowl and then went off to the Petsmart and got another fish and this time some freeze dried blood worms.  I read about these fish online the other nite and apparently this is like a big treat to them.  It really is a lot of fun to watch them.  I mean the snail is a hoot.  Last nite he was at the bottom all tucked in his shell and I was like well if he's dead then that is 2 dollars down the drain.  Ha, I can't believe I spent 2 dollars .  But this morning at exactly 5 mins til 9am as I'm sipping my coffee looking into the bowl there it was a tentacle then another one and movement and it was like makin its way along the rocks and side of the bowl at a pretty good pace.  Oh, I named the fish at work Oscar and then P said we should name the snail Felix so then they could be like the odd couple.  LOL  So here's a pic of the fish/snail set up at home.

It's not the greatest pic.  The snail is the yellow thing that looks like a stone way over to the left in the pic and of course the fish is the blue thing floating at the top to the right and not being very co-operative for this photo shoot.

Okay, so I just had to go out and take in the laundry since it started raining again.  Had it out on the line all day yesterday and it just wasn't quite all the way dry.  So early this morning went out and put it back out on the line.  Well in the middle of posting this it starts raining again so had to go and take it all in, LOL.  I am bound and determined to not use the dryer today.  So will just lay it all around since its just barely damp.  TTFN have a good week

P.S.  If you pay your taxes quarterly like I do then today is the day so don't for get