Thanks for the fish

of cukes. Yes, it’s that time of year (finally!) when the vegetable garden finally starts cranking out some produce. The cukes are coming out my ears. I used 2 to make a middle eastern cucumber yogurt sauce today. I made falafel sandwiches (using the packages you buy at the store..not from scratch) and put them on pita bread with the last of my pot lettuce and some tomatoes. yummy! Now there are 6 cucumbers left…what to do with them? The tomatoes are coming too! Need to go up and gather some…now it’s not just the Mamma Mias, but the other ones too (I forget what they are… better boys or something).

Holy crap…the corn! Ok, by my estimates we will have 80 ears of corn!! I think I will freeze some and can some. I’d freeze it all, but we don’t have a chest freezer. Canning is a big pain in the ass.

Went to home depot to buy some rocks to finish J’s rock garden and they had Stargazer lillies..you know those ones that smell sooooo good you could just die. So of course I had to buy one. I planted it in my boulder bed so I can look at it from here… pretty. And I finally planted a lily of the valley that my mom brougth me, in the shade garden. And I planted another tansy my mom brought me in the weed garden. The roses are looking pretty and I feel guilty because it’s been raining and I haven’t had time to enjoy my garden.

I cut some major parts out of my recital song and it doesn’t exactly flow, and now I have to memorize it all over from scratch and try to forget abou tthe parts I cut. It was just too long though… my brain doesn’t have that much storage space.

My in-laws are going to switzerland, germany, maybe austria? tomorrow and I’m jealous. We used to be the welll-traveled part of the family.. no more. On the other hand, the sun is shining and I don’t feel like packing, so I guess I’m not that jealous. We bought some egg custard pie to bring up for my father in laws birthday tonight. Can’t wait!

I don’t really have anything to talk about, so I guess I will ramble and see what comes up.

Went to a wedding reception/pig roast for a coworker. It was miraculously a sunny day adn actually felt sorta like (gasp!) summer. The ground was squishy from rain, but it was a beautiful home (mother of the bride) with beatufiul gardens and a pond. Drank many sangrias and margaritas and played bocci ball. It was fun and low key. Sometimes I tell J that we need to invite people over, and then he says that nobody wants to do anything…which is perhaps true, because whenever we have an event to go to, we roll our eyes and suck it up. But this is what life is about. You go, you have fun, you have something to talk about later… it’s what people do. So I think I’ll invite a few people over for a little bbq/margartias next weekend.

PUt another coat of primer on the bathroom walls today. Tomorrow hopefully I’ll get coat #3 and maybe a coat of real paint. We have a lot of half finished projects around here…J never finsihed his rock garden, I have empty window boxes sitting in the walkway (for 2 weeks), and then the bathroom. So maybe tomorrow I’ll get some of those things wrapped up. Also need to practice for my recital. I’m not ready…again. I think I’m just goign to have to shorten the song becuase it’s just not working. I’d rather play it confidently and nicely and shortly, rather than choking in the middle of it.

Went jogging today. Went by myself for the first time since J had a time management brain fart. So I just went wihtout him…still hard! But I’ve done it consistently 3 times a week for 3 weeks or so. Well J is watching some video about the Dark Ages so i think I”ll watch it too. I find it impossible nto to get sucked into somethign that is on.