I like days like this. Half in and half out of the house. Seth is home from the hospital and doing very, very well so Wayne and I were able to go run a few errands. We actually set out to only run two but that turned into about four or five.

The fan in our kitchen burned out a few weeks ago and I suppose somebody thought that would just go unnoticed by me. Ummm, no, not with as hot as the room gets in the afternoons. Maybe that's why I haven't felt like cooking?! O.K., who are we kidding, that's not the reason. So we definitely needed to replace the fan.

We've also been trying, somewhat successfully to get grass to grow in the back yard. So that required a trip to Home Depot. While we were there we also picked up a couple of tomato plants for this.

Am I officially white trash now? I can't help it! Ever since our last trip to Disneyworld and I had to ride that Living Earth (or whatever it's called) ride at Epcot over and over while waiting for Wayne and the older kids at Mission Space or somewhere I have been fascinated by the upside down fruit and vegetable technology. Is this technology? I'm going to say it is for the purposes of this blog. It seems kind of logical and like why didn't somebody think of this sooner. If you've ever grown tomato plants you know that they always have to be staked because they get too heavy, so of course turn them upside down! Why not? I would love to find a plant to grow little tiny pear shaped yellow tomatoes, those are my absolute favorite. I'm really not making myself out to be too cool am I?

In other news from the domestic side of my life today...I made a batch of strawberry jam. Or more like three batches. One batch is really pretty small, so I tripled it. Of course I can't eat the stuff because it is incredibly loaded with sugar. But for the rest of the family it is really good stuff! Brent was very happy when I said I was making it. Jack, not so happy. Not because he doesn't like jam or doesn't like strawberries, but because he's Jack and if he let it be known that he was happy about something that would be un-Jack-like. He'll eat it, I'm not worried. Oh, and because I want to provide you with photographic evidence of my domesticity, here you go:

I still feel like I have so many things I need to do but the weekend's almost over, so I can see it's not all going to happen. Why is it that one the weekends I have one day where I feel like I've been run over by a truck and one good day of energy. It's not always the same day either, it gets switched up sometimes.

Over the past week new neighbors have moved into the two houses next to us. Wayne suggested that maybe strawberry jam would make a good housewarming gift. I just said, "I don't want to make new friends." He looked at me like I had two heads. I know it's not the right attitude but I just don't feel like it right now. I know I'll come around, but right now I just want to do my thing. I promise I'm not mean, I'm just not in the mood to be the Welcome Wagon. ((sigh)) Fine, maybe I'll send over some jam. I don't know though, if somebody brought me jam as a housewarming gift I wouldn't eat it. I'm just funny that way. I have to know you and/or the state of your kitchen before I eat something you bring me.

And now that I have revealed all the very nicest parts of myself I think I will leave it at that. Good day!
 

 

Comments

[MOM]

I will have to send you a picture of my topsy-turvy tomato plant. I have 2 plants in mine and several tomatoes. The plant looks good, but so far I haven't seen an exceptional quantity of tomatoes on it. We'll see!

Glad Seth is doing well and is home. He is in my thoughts and hope his recovery is speedy.
XOXO