Simple pleasures

Yesterday was a really crazy day, and by the time things settled down, late into the afternoon, it was just Jagger and me at home. He absolutely LOVES to go outside (side! side!), so I decided we would go out and pick a few tomatoes. Our tomato plants are always plentiful, and the only exception this year is that they are unruly and plentiful. They have outgrown the metal frames that we caged them in to keep them shapely and upright, yet we neglected to remove the cages. So now it's too late, and we have a jungle of caged tomatoes in our back yard (which makes picking a daunting task). So, after finding that most of the tomatoes were still green (phew, I can procrastinate that task for a few more days), we decided to take a peek at the rest of the garden. As our remaining family members trickled home, it turned into family harvesting the garden night. Just a few ears of corn and some potatoes are left. And the green tomatoes. I suppose now the real work of canning and freezing begins, but I am very excited about that part this year. I am going to puree and freeze most of my carrots and yellow squash to use in my newly discovered Deceptively Delicious recipes. I should have enough tomatoes to keep us in spaghetti, pizza, and salsa for the winter. Yay!!


Here is one of the girls planting magic beans!



How cute is my boy!? He's peering up over my belly :)


Got corn?

Lest we forget

9.11.01 Remembered

I thought about the anniversary of our country's recent tragedy yesterday, but, sadly, I was too wrapped up in my own grumpy mood to give it any serious reflection. My friend, Lisa has posted a beautiful tribute over on her blog. Click here to view it.

Blog, blog, blog (read: blah, blah, blah...)

I am such a bad blogger. Either my life is exceptionally boring, or I just don't think anyone would be interested in what I have to say. Oh well. Actually, I think that, more often than not, I just don't feel like sharing what I am really thinking. Again...oh well.

So, yesterday, I took all of my files from my old computer, dumped all of the useless stuff, and put all the rest onto my new computer. My new, wonderful, fast, reliable, happiness in a machine (if your mind went where mine did with that last description - get it out of the gutter!) computer!!! So, as I was completing this task, I thought, hmm, I should probably print all of these digital pictures I have saved up over the past, oh, several years. Uh-huh. Jaw drops. I have roughly 1,500 pictures to print. Hee, hee, hee. The laughter comes from picturing the hundreds of dollars I will have to spend if I really want to print them and then do something with them. I am not a scrapbooker, so I suppose it could be worse. And who said digital photography was so great?

Here are a couple of pictures of the kids doing their "homework." Funny, though, Emma (laying on the floor watching TV) is the only one who has actual homework. So cute.