I'm HOT!

I'm HOT! No, not that kind of HOT, this kind of HOT:

Tonight, Jeff and I are going to see Tim McGraw and Lady Antabellum in Tampa. I would almost rather be here:

As you saw, I said almost. Now granted, tonight when I am sweaty and sticky, my almost may turn into regret. (Sigh)

If It Can Go Wrong, It Will!

It has been one of those weeks where if it can go wrong, it shall go wrong.

We started to notice our toilet in the master bedroom making a funny noise. Sort of a glub, glub and bubbles coming up, where everything should be going down. Ya'll get what I'm talking about, right? First concern, need a new toilet. Naw, that can't be it, this one is only 2 years old. Other concern, it could be our septic. Yep, we live where there is not a sewer, but a septic.

At this point, most people would say, no big deal. You call the septic company, they send someone out and they open the tank and clean it out. (Not a job for the faint of heart, or someone with a strong sense of smell!) Most people could do that unless the location of your tank looks like ours:

Yes, under all of that is our septic tank. So, while I was in Colorado, my wonderful husband, by himself, started to dig.

And Dig....

I will spare you the photo of what it looked like when they removed the lid. Yes, he did send me a photo of it. And yes, it was full! So, after they cleaned, and cleaned and cleaned it some more, we are now toilet noise free.

And as for our brick paver patio? Refer back to photo 1. Photo 1 is actually the "after" photo anyway. He didn't think to take a "before" photo because I already knew what it looked like!

The moral of this story is that all of our, you know what, has to go somewhere!

Look into my eyes....

I forgot to turn my flash off the other day while I was, again, goofing off with my camera. I took this photo of Lucky sitting at the table. Later while I was deleting all of the terrible photos I had taken, I saw this one. If I didn't know any better, I was looking into a canyon with lush green landscapes, a river running through and mountains in the background. I find this to be one of the creepiest photos I have ever seen!

Zucchini!!!

I laid these out so everyone could compare. The "normal" size squash is on the left, "normal" size zucchini is in the middle, and the one on the right is our GIGANTIC zucchini. I have a recipe that calls for 4 zucchini, I think I should be able to get away with just one!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Flowers on the stems of squash

Flowers on Zuchinni, I think? Or were these the squash?

Leaves of the squashchinni. That is what I'm calling it since I don't know which plant it is!

How does our garden grow? In a Box. Don't they all?

Look at how pretty my lettuce is!

Can't wait. A few more weeks and I will be overloaded with veggies! I love this time of year. Although by the end of it I will be saying, How much squash can one person eat?!

Woke up to this...

This morning I awoke early, worked on the computer for a bit and then heard a loud "thump" from outside. Since it was 5:30 a.m, it was still dark and I assumed it was our paper being thrown over the gate. WRONG. It was a couple of possums being hit by someone driving down the road. One landed in our driveway, the other a bit further down. Jeff had to go out and scoop the one out of our driveway. How I wished I had grabbed my camera then. Jeff had to fight with a vulture to get it. However, he left the one down the road. I'm now afraid to let our dogs out to go to the bathroom!

Blog Be Dandy

Day one of blog be dandy...A place for my thoughts, things of the day (or week). More to follow. Until then.