Holy Harvest!

A picture of just some of the squash and peppers harvested from the garden. We have also been getting green onions, stumpy carrots and the cucmbers are just starting to come up.

I feel like we have done really well with our garden this summer and are still hoping to get some more goodies. If anyone wants some squash let me know!

I love my Dog

I can't remember if I posted about this when it happened months ago, but we were attacked by a dog while walking sweet Willie. Again tonight the same dog charged at us. We yelled at said dog and detered it before it got to Willie. It charged us again, three times in total.

Finally the adult owner leisurely came to get the dog that his kids could not control. He had a few words and then went on to call the cops on US!! Yep! He did.

When we called the cops they came to our house, apparently they had been waiting for us to call to find us. The dog owner was worried that we were going to come and kill their dog. He was scared.

I would never hurt an animal unless it hurt me (or my dog) first. It would be an act of self defense only.

I cannot believe in all the laws in the world, animals that have a history of violence towards other animals are allowed to continue to freely run around the neighborhood. I just don't think it is right.

I am not sure what to do about it but stew. I have to say that it did help me get my heart pumping on my walk, I was VERY mad and scared at the same time.

I love my Willie Butch

Monday Quote

You get over having your appendix out, but when you've lost your leg, you limp the rest of your life"

~CS Lewis

I am reading a book by Abby Rike called Working It Out. If you aren't famililar, Abby was a contestant on the Biggest Loser. She was quite memorable to me because she had been through the loss of her family. Before she was on the show her husband, daughter and newborn son were killed instantly in a car accident. I could not understand how anyone could live through that pain. I know that I have felt pain and reading about hers, we are so similar. I found comfort in reading this book. It was the first book that I felt like the author had lived through something similar to what I have been through and am going through.
I have tried to remain tough, but I still have rough times. Like tonight, I think I have cried about 20 times, about nothing really. I don't know why it gets to me sometimes. It just does.

Anyway, it is a good book and this is just one of the quotes I found in reading it.

Monday Quote

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Feeling a little bit like motivating others today. I really do believe that "happiness" isn't a place, but on how you get where you are going. This goes along with my favorite line from an Aerosmith song "Life's a journey, not a destination". And seriously, I love me some Aerosmith and I ask, who doesn't?

Well, that was a bunch of rambling.....

Feeling goof this morning, just a bit tired. I got up and took a 30 minute walk this morning and while I think that is supposed to help your productivity or help jumpstart your day, it did nothing for feeling a bit tired right now mid-am. I usually warm/wake up as the day goes on.

We got a great storm last night that did not take out our power, which was very exciting. What was very exciting about the storm is that it RAINED!! We have been fighting the 100+ temps everyday for most of the month of July and everything is dying (ie my lawn). We have not had a lot of rain, but plenty of sun. I am sooooooooo ready for fall!

Sick Day- a week ago

I don't know if it was the lack of sleep from the day before or the fury of the HEAT in Kansas, but I could not make it to work today.
After sleeping for what seemed like forever this morning, and I think finally cooling down, I started to do a few things like watching movies and baking a bit.
I started out with the romcom No Strings Attached and honestly this is the first movie I have liked Atchten Kutcher in in a long time. I won't say that the movie was all that great, but I liked him in it. It is one of the first in a series of the "friends with benefits" movies that have been showing up in theaters in the past year or so.
Then a little more substance, I watched Conviction. If you haven't seen this it is a true story about a case in 1983 where they convicted a man based on collected blood at the crime scene, however, this was before DNA proof was able to be processed. It was quite interesting.

Then I decided to get some food together. I am planning on making some Clean Bison Burgers and I need some mash sweet potatoes and will roast some others. Then I need to use up some blueberries from the farmer's market, I plan on making a bread that I made last summer. It is also a clean recipe, yep I am trying to get back into that, at least a little bit.
I started looking at my magazines and cookbooks, something I haven't done in a long time and I was actually happy to be doing it.

I am not sure why I needed to stay home today other than I was very hot, tired and had a headache.
I feel much better after sleep and feeling inspired again!

Garden project

So here is a month after we planted!! looking pretty good. Took me too long to post these. Above is the herbs: cilantro, basil and whatevery I put in the other side of the pots....they never grew.

Yellow squash...seriously, have so much of this stuff now!

I have yet to see any color but green from these plants. They aren't getting as big as the ones at the market, but they taste o' so good!

These are my onion and carrots. Willie really enjoys the carrots!

I am very happy with our gardening experience so far this summer. I think we will do it again next year, but I think there will be some improvements to our space as well as choosing some different things to grow. Hint ** you should grow what you really want to eat! not that these things are bad in any way but I seriously do not know what I am going to do with all of the yellow squash!

Does blogging kill insomnia

So according to the Mayo Clinic insmonia is ....well apparently something you cannot copy from their website. Any way it is 5 am and I have been up for 2 hours.
I woke up to go to the restroom, which isn't all the surprising due to the fact that I am drinking gallons of water a day to try to deal with the heat of Kansas. However, when I got up to walk, I felt an intense pain in my knee. As I crawled back into bed, the pain worsened. I tried to will it to stop and fall back to sleep....no such luck my stomach started to growl. Instead of waking up the SO, I got up got ice and some pain relievers and set up camp on the couch. A few minutes later I realized that my slick moving to the couch had in fact woke up the SO. He came out to check on me pondering why we were both awake.
Now I say this with all the love in my heart....I hate him for being able to fall back asleep while now 2 hours later, I am up!!
Anyway, I went bak to bed with him and an ice pack and seriously does one really need to move that much in bed? My stomach kept growling and I decided sleep just wasn't going to happen. After a healthy Trader Joes granola bar, I settled onto the couch deciding that since I can usually fall asleep to any movie that I would check the DVR for something slightly interesting. I came up with the Lifetime movie "Magic Beyond Words" the JK Rowling story. Sadly, it was not all that interesting AND it didn't put me to sleep. So after trying to stay off the computer, I am here blogging. Maybe insomnia is good for my blogging?

Knee pain, where did it come from you ask? Well, oddly enough after using a month long pass to Jazzercize, I signed up for a year membership. I missed my usual time to get my sweat on tonight and went to a later and quite possibly in my attempt to rock it out, I may have jumped up and down on my knee a bit too much. However, after a pain reliever and ice I am doing alright....let's just hope I didn't ruin my jazziness for too long!

Alright...maybe bloging does cure insomnia as I am starting to feel a little sleepy...that and I turned on another movie, New Moon making me sleepy.........too bad now I only have 30 minutes befor the alarm goes off.