another day, another sprout!

so my compost is coming along nice and easy.. i hope that does not jinx me..  but i seem to have aphids living in it. Now i had wondered about this possibility when starting it but i had seen nothing on any of the sites i read for starting a compost pile or maintaining it. The aphids love are kitchen tho and tick me off to no end..sigh BUT they are free to live outside if they please! … until spring that is or they will eat all my new plants i have envisioned of planting! I’ll be googling some more on this to see if its something i need to do something about, i would imagine as it brakes down and the COLD they will fly away, if not im not above BUYING some lady bugs!

this pic was a few days ago and its not as dry as it looks and BEFORE the aphids seemed to have moved in. i wet it down some more today hopeing to ..i dont know drown them.. lol i dont think it works that way tho.

Well i keep the seeds from a red bell pepper from the store and planted some on 10-21 and on 10-26 one pellet had 3 little shoots coming up! wow.. ill have to pull two of them just to give one room to grow but i wnat to wait to see what one might be the best.  This was just a test for me to see if they WOULD sprout off or not… my cucumber ones did not and after reading found out i need actually harvested seeds for replanting because they must mature way past the eating stage…. so now that they have started HELL ill let them grow and see just what becomes of them. I think this is all great learning for me so come spring i will have a better idea of what im doing and how long i need to start my seedlings to go outside when the last frost has past.

… I just wish my basil looked better its leaves are not growing! the stems continue to grow up but the leaves are not getting bigger its making me very sad. Now i really dont have any idea when i planted it because i didnt write it down but its more then a month because the baby tomatos are almost that old .. maybe two months.. i should read up on it and see what the harvest time actually is LOL that would be the smart thing hu

I planted some pansies seeds .. i love those pretty little flowers so much! I have not read up on them like i should, but i seen the seeds on sale and just had to have them. Since my husband is wanting more house plants along with my new found gardening obsession i might as well go all out and look at the flowers that i love to but i felt a waste of space or time before… now I’m thinking of a cottage garden .. they are so very pretty and peacefully and i wonder what i could do with the front walk area with pretty, fragrant plants! …am i just spreading my self to thin ? lol oh well ill just learn about every thing i see and find the stuff i want to grow and see what happens  /shrug worse that will happen is stuff starts to die! and then i get to start over again

My parents are on the MOVE~! They have been working for this RV park for a year in Corpus Christie and got the joy of experienced THREE hurricanes..sigh..one which they had to evacuate from!!!! Now they are on there way to Dallas for a couple of days to see my brother who is huddled in a trash trailer until his house sells and the family moves up with him . We all hope and pry that is very soon. Then they are up to a RV camp …err in the corner of .. California, Nevada and Arizona just tucked into that bottom corner. they will be able to relax, visit her brother in cal, her son in Nevada, and go play in Reno! then when spring rolls around she will come back here to visit for a bit then they will head for new adventures.   ..(( I love pictures!))..

Poor hubby, in the last two weeks hes had 10 teeth pulled out! he is working out a dental plan with his dentist. They will be removing all his upper teeth and giving him a partial. Thank goodness this is the last of it tell the new year and starting of the new insurance payment roll over. then they will do the hard part of it. I think the plan is to take a week off of work when he has the top pulled so he can heal up at home. i don’t know how long before they can start fitting him for the partials tho…  AND THIS is what he will look like all week!!!!!

I have a meeting with the volunteer coordinator ( i think this is who it is ) Saturday at noon so that i can hopefully start volunteering soon! hubby wants me to work at the women and child shelter over here by us but i have to meet the guy at the downtown men’s shelter, i know hubby is uncomfortable with this but its during the day and he is being so so so nice to see me on a Saturday! I have been trying to work it out the last week and a 1/2 on how to get there during the week to see him. So this was a prayer answered and a fasting i didn’t have to complete to get an answer , thank you lord! I have never fasted before but i have read up on it and why people fast and was willing to fast this day to show god i was willing to make a small suffering to show him how dedicated i was to this and just needed help finding the way to make it happen. that morning he gave me the answer and saved me from my self imposed suffering. isn’t god great?\

Ok off to make dinner ! easy makens for the next few days since hubby cant eat!

god bless.

SOooo

something for all to remember…

when seeding a pepper please remember that even AFTER you wash your hands…twice.. the seed juice is proble under your nails still and when you go to remove dinner from your teeth you’ll find it and burn your mouth up :0 ) so have dinner with a glass of milk!

update from the funny farm.

well.. fills like even tho i just posted i have so much more to share. first the scariest of the week.

My dad was in a car accident a few days ago. if i understand the facts right a guy ran a red light and plowed into a car in the intersection that then spun into my dads stopped car at the red light. he banged up his knee on the dash and his arm and neck on the air bag. he walked away tho which is a god sent right there, but later was hurting enough to send him to the hospital. After 4 hrs and from what mom said some really gross going ons in the waiting room they left untreated..sigh.. as a bystanders that are so many states away and can do nothing but fill helpless we all yelled for them to GO BACK!!! but dad fills ..i guess safe enough to wait until Monday when he can get into see his Dr for his muscle dystrophy. My fear is what this accident will do to his current condition with his MD because he has started to have a lot more problems lately, I’m worried this will just speed it all up.

so i am praying for dad to be as comfortable as he can be until he sees his dr and they can help him farther.

and talking of my parents! i believe they are leaving corpus Cristie on the 26th and moving there RV to Reno!!! they need a change of pace and some fun. My other brother is there training and so mom will be able to spend some time with him i hope between his current bachelor living lol.

now.. here. well poor hubby, he went into the dentist on Friday and had 7 teeth pulled. his teeth are so bad and hes as .. phobic.. about the dentist as me that him and the Dr set up a plan to take out the top teeth that are left and replace it with top dentures. At the same time I’m having the few bottom ones fixed that are save-able and getting partials for the bottom… guess what are tax return will be spent on this year! not a computer upgrade lol. So right now hes in a not happy state. they took 4 from one side and 3 from the other and had to do stitches because of a few of them. poor guy will be on soup for a few days.. which makes my cooking plan very easy this week!!!

We have picked up the Quicken money program for my banking..sigh.. i am not good at balancing a stupid check book this program is making me nuts BUT because i continually forget about non posted stuff and we keep bouncing every few months because of it iv agreed to learn it and give it a go. i am getting the basics of it but its not something im really good at so im so paranoid about the money! i way underspent on food shopping today to make sure i didn’t over spend and bounce us because i have put the info in wrong! oh man… but hubby is totally confident that i can get the hang of it and we will just triple check everything along the way tell i get it down pat.

now! on to my new hobby! hubby is just so / so about all this garden talk and newly sprouting plants all over the house.. so i asked him what does he want me to work on? and told him about winter stuff that’s going into the ground now. garlic mainly. getting prepped and planted for spring and hes all excited about this. so if i can get my hands on a dang shovel lol with out having to buy one for 15 dollars at Freddy’s ill get the soil ready and plant some. that would be very cool..but SO inactive on my part once its in the ground .. he would like Brussels sprouts, hot pepper, red peppers and spinach if he had to choose.  so guess what I’m looking into ? so right now the plants id like to master?

tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, peppers ( hot and bell ), spinach, garlic, potatoes and am formulating a lay out for the patio to try and make this passable.

at present i have my old tomato plant from this spring in the house and pruned down because it started to flower again! there are about 25 new flowers and one actual baby tomato growing on it! its horribly exciting for me ..because I’m a dork lol.. and i have 4 3week old baby’s growing under there light. there were 12 but i have gotten rid of the weaker ones because in the end i plan on only one or two of the best to grow to maturity … In the kitchen i JUST took an old long Tupperware container that lost its lid and turned it into a small spinach grower. put holes in the bottom and planted 3..two seeds in each hole I’m sure at least one will grow! i just want to see if it will take off inside or not… i have garlic ready to go into the ground if i can get the ground ready! .. i transplanted the baby houseplant into a larger container and brought in one from outside that the summer has burned up so i will see if i cant nurture it back to greenness!

he also stressed how much he wants REAL house plants! WELL! good give me another reason to plant more stuff WOOT. i picked up a very small baby plant today when shopping

Am i back???!!!

Well maybe ill start blogging again you all know me, im interested for a few months then find something other to do ..or more like crawl back under my rock to hide is more like it. But i want to come back for a little bit again so enjoy me wial you can!

lets see here.. Well overly I’m getting tired of my mmo game and that’s why I’m coming back to the net and my post’s, i have not stoped playing lol but i think i od’ed on it! Husband and I got war-hammer when it came out and been playing since, its a great game i really enjoy it. HE found us a christian guild and we started playing on that server so that was pretty cool. i think i have started one of every characters lol and i think Emily has at one point killed each of them! this is her hobby when im playing is i think to see how many ways she can make that toon die!

Other fun things, i managed to GROW a tomato plant this summer on the back patio and OH IT WAS YUMMY! so yummy in fact that i am now experimenting with growing them INSIDE over the winter! i don’t know how well this will go but i am going to try. so i harvested some seeds and cleaned them and planted them in the little starter trays you get from the store and they sprouted ( better then my cucumbers did ) i have about 12 tiny sprouts going and have already transplanted into slightly larger container so they can really take root, then ill pick one ..maybe two of the best and see if i can grow it to full growth! and wial all this was happening i figured my outside plant was done so i started to ignore it and was just going to toss it in the compost bin at some point ( oh yes i started one of those also!  more on that in a bit ) so i didn’t water it , but it has been raining just a tad so i guess enough.. because 3 days ago i go out to dump the kitchen scraps into the bin and… OMG there are more flowers on the plant! 12 OF THEM! so i rush the plant inside and give it more soil and a good watering and put it next to my (very tiny) plant light to insure it gets enough  and now im waiting and wondering if this is normal for a tomato plant to produce twice?  this would be very great if so because then i can space out the planting of more seedlings… my plan? id like to have one producing plant going at almost all times! they are just that good.. if not then at least im learning some new info and have found a new hobby … i did learn that Brussels sprouts love the cold and grow best if they get 3 frost to hit them before they are harvested! that gives them there sweetness… i might have to look into them for next year , hubby loves them.

i wanted to grow carrots because i love those but i am not sure how to make that happen with containers lol i will do potatoes next year tho, there are just so many ways you can. one is in tires! yes that’s right. you can stack them as high as 4 high. you just fill the first with dirt and put your taters in there and once the stocks are ..what hmm 8″ high i think you put a new tire on top and fill with soil so that the plant will grow more potatoes there also and you continue that up the stock.. i guess if you keep the stock buried it produces more potatoes. so them when its time you just take one tire off at a time and harvest ! i don’t think i would do a full stack tho just because, one i have not grown them before and two potatoes don’t store well in this apartment. there is no cold place to put them so they don’t sprout! i have been thinking if maybe i can use a large waterproof container outside to store them in? i know they cant get wet and they need to stay cold to not sprout and then you can store them for months. hehe i just gave my self something new to look up.

My sister in law is still trying to sell there house so that her and the kids can move down with my brother. his company gave him a management training position but it is in Texas! he really wanted it and the family decided to go alone with it but … he was a bit sneaky about some of it and now hes living down there full time wial shes still stuck in Portland with the kids and having to deal with selling a house on a crappy market.. and what if it doesn’t sell? they need to just rent the damn thing out so they can be all together again because this is just no good for any of them. its been a  couple of months already and im sure the strain is getting to all of them. sigh its not an easy situations at all. i wish my brother would have gone about this differently because he made this agreement with his job that he would live there and train and told the family that it wouldn’t be permanent until they sold the house and were ready to move! now hes living in a crappy little trailer in a trailer park to spend as little as possible because they still have all the bills here. I wish that david and i could rent it from them, I LOVE THERE HOUSE! but we can not afford there morgage bill. its double are rent! sigh, i know it will work out i just pray for it to be fast so that a rift dosnt form between them.

…. see i just had to delete a whole big section here because.. well i know that my family reads this and i would hate to share to much and have one or more get upset.. its different when I’m sharing my filling to THEM and they get mad then if i share it with the web… so some things i just cant touch yet i guess. because i then have to delve into the past more to catch the reader up on what the heck i am talking about! … so on to safer things! …

Emily and Dan and keith OH MY! the kids are getting so big and smart and… stubborn ..  Dan is 4 now.. dec,5th hes going to be 5!!! and starts school next year OMG ok… ill have to pry him off the computer daddy built for them first tho! He is the one child that has been so easy to deal with, he would listen well and could go shopping with you with no trouble..but the last few weeks.. i think his sister has been teaching him how to say no! but he is so funny about it its hard to be really mad and not just laugh at him. he gets this really blank look and his mouht dropps open and he just freezes, and just stares at you! …dan can you go pick this up please… why!!??!! because i asked you to dan… then you get that look… now.. he can stand like this for a REALLY long time! last night being one of them. now im pretty sure this is just dan FINALY tring to usert some controll! so.. me  being me i just cant let him lol. so we go to take the bath last night and we have bubbles and fun and here is time to wash them selfs. they have the body wash scrubbys and we sud them up and they wash them selfs. the have been doing this part them selfs for some time now and know how to wash them selfs but i still do there hair. SO i hand dan and emily there scrubbys and say wash your selfs and i was going to switch the wash out wial they did and dan tells me. no you do it, and hands out the scrubby to me…. no dan you do it you know how… NOW the dumb blank look of a zombie and he freezes. standing in the tub and reached out with the scrubby dangling off his finger. LOL im like yup w/e wash your self and i start doing the laundry untell emily announces shes done and i rince her off …. dan is STILL standind like a zombie.. now im getting a bit peeved.. and tell him again to wash him self and that he will just stand there like that tell he does, even after we leave the bathroom ( they dont like to be alone anywere! ) the look changed a bit to fearfull astonisment that i would dare to leave him alone! so just wash your self already so we can finish!!! at this point its been like 7 or 8 min of zombie stare and its getting to me. part of me was like.. just take the damn scruby and WASH HIM so we can leave the bathroom with out a fight… but the other part of me was like… no if you give in now guess whats gona happen next bath time.. oh i already know this from emily the terror who never listend since she popped out!  so as silly as it may seem i stuck to my gun that he was indeed going to wash himself …i took a swot on the bare bum and a very loud voice and…well ok the threat of getting dad involved that he finaly did it!…. why does dad have more power? i never understand this! grrr… just invoke the name.. ILL GET DAD… and walla! any who… this is just to illistrate the new stage hes coming into.. and im tring to be aware of it and only demand important things that cant be back out of.. other wise i like the question << do i want to die on this hill>> ( thank you dr.laura!)

emily? shes 3 will be 4 jan , 9th and what a cutie pants and so eager to learn. she loves to practice writing, and shes getting very carfull with her coloring! she loves to draw people lol with big ol belly buttons!! and she is always testing me! she loves to help me out and insist INSISTS to be the one to help! but if shes not interested in doing something ..oh man the world is going to stop to make her move.

keith my 11 yr old boy! he will be 12 march 15th. hes now in the 6th grade and first year to have REAL grades and is having a slight issue with this and not because he cant do the work,,, but because he dosnt turn it in! his teachers send a progress report home every week telling us his current grade and all the work that was done the week before. so we see his grades per assinment or if it was not turned in. most of his work is 80 + %  which is GREAT but he has had a lot of stuff not turned in and that has dropped his grades. i belive hes going to be  getting 3c’s and an A on this report card they did friday.  but all the work hes actualy turned in have .well the majority has been at least a B so the missing stuff hurt him bad. i bet he does better this next quarter . this week tho hes at outdoor school…oh here is a test of my over worry nerves.. lol my family will understand that phraz! but he did church camp this summer and did good and made it back in one peice.. why wouldnt the school do just as good. and i pray lol that he watched keith and helps him to not get himself into trouble!  OH he is in band! he wanted to do intro band this year which im totaly thrilled about. he picked the clarinat and is learning the very basics.. like how to make the sound from the mouth peice LOL my ears! and reading the music. i think its a great responsibility trainer tho because he must bring his insturment home each night and take to school each day. and keith is NOT the most responsibal kid.. i worry about that too but.. its a chance im willing to take. worse case something happens to the insturment and we pay for it and he works his butt off to pay it off ot us!

i  get a bit overwelmed FOR HIM with all his homework/ reading 20 min a day / insturment practice… tue is his big brother day after school and thursday is chess club.. so those to days he gets home after 4:30..eats dinner then studys..  m /w /f he can get it all done before dinner at least and then have the rest of the evening to play his computer game or do w/e but tue/ thur is more cramped and im being careful to not let my issues of filling rushed with so little free time being pushed on him. Keith doesn’t seem to have a problem with it yet so i just keep my mouth shut and try to make sure it all runs smothly.

me? i have been doing my gardening inside and i found a great work out guy. gilad!

i found him on fit tv on direct tv before we canceled it when are tv died..sigh.. and he is so motivating! i find my self wanting to go back to do another workout. granted some are really hard and i cant yet do, but others have gotten easier so that i can acutaly do the whole thing start to finish! when we canceled the tv david let me order a dvd with 3 episodes on it.. i want more now! id love more of his vidios its the only workout i have found so far that i actualy want to repeat. i found him about 2 or 3 months ago and did it off and on with the tv, but got my dvd 2 weeks ago and started doing it 3 times a week. i have not seen any weight drop on the scale BUT!!!! i can now were one size smaller bra size and one smaller pant size! so OMG that made me fill sexy lol and shows me something is happening. i can fill my thigh muscles are more improved and my abs are stronger and my bust line is shrinking. i think its just tightening things atm and the muscle gain is over weighing the fat loss on the scale.  i wouldn’t mind doing the work outs more but last time i tried to push them back to back my body freaked out and i got hit with a big flare up and was down for a week. soooo slow and steady

well i think that this is a long enough general post to get us caught back up. ill see about posting more often again now that i have found a renewed interest.

god bless!