I scream

I'm so glad the weather is finally nice out again!  I live for the nights that Hubs and I go for walks (albeit to the ice cream shop, but I digress) during warm spring nights.

I also live for Birthday Cake ice cream.  But again, I digress.

My Kind of Tent

It's that time of year again!  The annual Wilton Tent Sale is going on now until June 22.

If you've never been, and you are even the slightest bit interested in baking, cooking, scrapbooking, or crafting, you MUST GO.  Everything is super cheap  and there is nothing but endless rows of awesome products.


Trust me.  You'll thank me later.

How Does your Garden Grow? Update 1!

The last few weeks have been pretty exciting in our garden.  Things have been growing pretty quickly, and we keep adding to it.

Most recently, we purchased 4 more little tomato plants.  Since we have 5 tomato plants now, and since it gets pretty windy on our balcony, we thought it was probably a good time to buy some tomato cages.


This also meant that Hubs got to use his prized angle grinder again to cut down the height of the cages.

(You can see the sparks hitting the mint plant on the right-hand side if you look closely.)


Now our tomatoes are nice and protected...but more importantly, of course, Hubs got to use his angle grinder.

He's like 15 already

Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday that my nephew was just 2 days old, sleeping on my chest. Now he's 2, and is almost as tall as me (No, seriously. He's the tallest 2 year old ever.).



And he runs around a lot.






I love this baby...even though he's not a baby anymore.

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It's About Time

Why don't you pop on over to www.tamelingrecipes.com and see what I finally started?

P.S. - Let me know if you are forwarded to a different site that obviously isn't mine.  I'm having some issues with my domain :o)

You Should Be Ashamed

A trip down to the laundry room never fails to give me a good laugh.  This weekend, I found this note plastered to the bulletin board:

Yep, that's right.  She even posted the hair/fur/unidentified objects in a ziploc baggie under the note.

How Does your Garden Grow?

Here in the DG, it's growing in containers.  Lots of containers.


On Saturday, Hubs and I decided to stop off at Wannemaker's to see what kind of herbs they had.  Last year, we grew some cilantro and chives that we actually used in a lot of our cooking.


The place was a madhouse - there were even police directing traffic into and out of the parking lot.  But I can definitely see why.  It was like walking into gardening heaven!


We quickly found the vegetable/herb section...and just stood there.  Rows and rows of tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, you name it.  They had anything you would ever want.





I was fine with sticking to a few herbs here and there.  After all, we don't really have the space to "garden" - we don't even have a yard!


But it seems like every time I came back to the cart, there were more and more plants in it.  Apparently, Hubs was pretty excited about this garden thing.


Six planters, 5 bags of soil, and an insane amount of plants later, we were all set.  We planted everything as soon as we got home...and took a step back.

How cute is our "little" garden?!  I still don't know all of the plants we have (dill, mint, parsley, basil, jalapenos, hot peppers, bell peppers, poblano peppers, fennel (?), spinach, lettuce, rosemary, thyme, tomatoes, and arugula to name a "few"), but I am pretty excited about it.

Not as excited as Hubs, though.  He spends hours online reading about pests, and immediately goes to check out the garden the instant he comes home.

Our first product of the garden?  A mojito, of course!

I'm a little skeptical about how this will all turn out (especially the bigger plants), but I can't wait to see our garden grow. :)