First Day of School

It is official, both of my kids are in school. Sunday was a panic filled day. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep the night before. I mean, K has been my little helper for a long time and now momma is gonna be all alone. How selfish of me. : ) Luckily, Peter put up with me. We drove to evil Starbucks afterwards to get a coffee. *note* Two venti coffees are like $8. That is just wrong. I can get a pound of coffee at Winco for $5.99. Can you tell I never go to Starbucks. *note over* So, I sipped my not so hot coffee down in like 2 seconds. Peter drove off to work. WOW, momma is gonna be all alone! How selfish of me.....heheheheh.

So this week has involved ME time. Gardening, walking, cleaning, library trip, reading, gardening and more gardening. I am not so sad anymore about the kids in school, can ya tell? It makes it easy since they both love it so much and I dont have to worry.

My new plan is to start walking M, W and F. Wednesday I walked 2.5 hours. Ouch. This girl is out of shape. Oh my. Today I took about a 45 minute walk. Perfect. Next time I need to stretch before because the top of my feet hurt. I also have a bad ankle so I can't go as fast as I'd like but really my walks right now are about clearing the mud out of my mind. I clocked it, we live 1 mile to the beach. Life is good.

A sew and show

Here are the outfits I made my soon to be nephew. They were so tiny. Made them out of an Ottobre magazine, issue 3/2004. I love those patterns and I have only one of their magazines. I hear their women's patterns are really nice as well.

Okay here they are:













For some reason I had a hard time photographing them. The first outfit is actually brown and blue. The other is a baby blue with darker blue accents. They were fun to make. I am worried they won't fit that boy though. My lil sis is gorgeous prego and all belly....he sure has stretched that girl to the max.



I also made some burp cloth and bib sets. Couldn't SNS these before the baby shower in case someone checks in on me. :)

Yesterday I did some canning all day and plan to do more later. I will post pics after I am all done. It has been a crazy last six weeks or so. Been in and out of the house traveling back and forth 5.5 hours each way. Each time we come back, we have had enough time to keep on the yard and do some laundry. I have been back now 3 days. The house is a disaster with all of this coming and going because we have been racing around at home when we are here. Well, long story short, I invited my friend over tomorrow. I got off the phone and realized my house is in absolutely no shape even for a very dear friend to see. Today I do laundry and make the house presentable. I can't stand a messy house and know I will feel better by the end of the day! Of course, the kiddos will not be happy about this because you can't even walk into their rooms. If they don't pick up, they lose their toys. Mean mommy has resurfaced, been a little relaxed about their rooms because they have been such good sports on these long road trips. Off to grumble.....

Overgrown garden

I was gone for 3 weeks due to a family emergency. Here's what I came home to.
Everything got watered three times and my neighbor shot some water over the fence from his yard. I just don't think it was watered deeply enough, plus that is a lot of bulk to be top watering and that is what was done.

All four boxes














Note: There are four individual boxes there and I could only walk through Box 1 and 2! The lettuce bolted but I expected that because it is August. I lost snow peas, sugar snap peas, bush beans and my tomatoes are sprawled everywhere...i mean all over the ground. I tried picking up the maters but was too afraid to break them!

Box 1: Strawberries



Box 2: Lettuce, carrots, snow peas, cukes


Box 3: Lettuce, cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas


Box 4: Zucchini, cukes, tomatoes, snow
peas, bush beans, K's sunflower

I had to rip most of it out. I will update next week with pics since I am headed back out of town. That sucks about the garden but this year was a learning "Humboldt County gardening plus square foot gardening year" now I know what to do and maily know what NOT to do. LOL