The Week in the Proverbial Nutshell

It's time to wrap-up the last seven days SO, here's my week in a

I finished planting my little planters of flowers that sit in front of the raised beds AND all my little basket planters (those pictures will come later- we haven't attached them to the rails yet) that Hubs got me for the deck rail!  Plus, the raised beds are now completed- including the irrigation!  Except that Hubs (aka Mr. Perfectionist) is not completely happy with the dripping so we have now entered the tweaking-of-the-irrigation-system phase.  All we have left is to finish tilling up the fenced in garden area and plant the squash, cucumbers, beans, more onions, potatoes, beets...If the garden is productive this year we will have plenty of veggies to enjoy!  And flowers! The frames you see around the beds will be covered with wildlife netting to keep out the pesky...wildlife. 

The three raised beds with my flower containers!

Soaker tube feeding some onions.

Feeder tube dripping rain water on a pepper plant.

The squash/cucumber/bean section that has to be tilled up.

This bed contains tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.  The blue tub in the back contains grapes!

This is the hot and sweet pepper bed-and onions.  The blue tub will hold a blueberry bush!

Green leaf lettuce, Romain lettuce, onions, shallots, garlic and horseradish! 

We actually had some thunder storms this week- I LOVE thunder storms! Last night we spent hours under a tornado watch- those I can do without!  Tucker is not fond of storms at all.  He has to sit on my lap under a blanket.  And I let him because he's a sweet little guy and I have spoiled him completely ROTTEN!

DoodleBug and Gibbs-terrific came over for our Wednesday night supper--Birdie always has a meeting on Wednesday nights so I send some home to her with the girls.  I made them Artichoke/mushroom frittatas and Roasted Veggie Sandwiches.  For dessert I made a Sugarless Cheesecake.  Yummy-lish on all counts!  I got the recipes from a couple of Suzanne Somers' cookbooks I ordered after Judy at Cranberry Morning commented that a friend of hers was losing weight with these cookbooks.  So I now have my own little plan going.  It's loosely based on a combination between Atkins and Suzanne Somers.  I call it ASS off.  We shall see how it goes.  Meanwhile, the recipes in the cookbooks are pretty darn good.

I had a bit of excitement of the adrenalin rush sort on Wednesday, but I'm saving that for another post.  We also had some family excitement of the excitement sort, but that will come in another post also.  Hey, I have to have a post every day for the A-Z Blog challenge so I'm saving these two occurrences. However---







Deanie had some excitement this weekend.  I received 3 texts from her this morning at 3:10 am---that's right, 3:10 AM--  1.  "omg omg omg"  2. "I just met, shook hands with and talked to DAVID BECKHAM!"  3. "I can die happy."  I'm not kidding--that girl IS living the life!  Here's her facebook status:  ..."is probably the happiest girl alive! I just met DAVID BECKHAM-and told him my dog was named after him...what a loser, but at least I can die happy :)"  I wondered if she told him that her dog, Becks, was named after him-I would have--and I don't think it was a loser statement at all.  None of us really know what will come out of our mouths if we should have a chance meeting with a celebrity---especially one who looks like this: 

I received an award this week from Lynne over at The Giggle Fest.  You should go over there if you haven't already.  You will find heartwarming tales that will make you tear up and then smile followed by intense laughter!  She provides it all!  Now, I'm supposed to tell you seven things about myself- but I'm not sure there are seven things left that y'all don't already know!  And then pass it on to some of my favorite bloggers...

1. I can't stand tea without sweetener, ice and lemon.
2. Even though I'm adjusting quite well to our empty nest, I still miss the times when our girls were little.
3. I am allergic to just about every man-made odor there is in soaps, perfumes, lotions, cigarette smoke (but not cigars or pipes...odd), etc.  And to some God made ones as well- gardenias, some roses, pollen etc. As soon as I smell these things I can also taste them and then I get a massive headache.  But I still love to grow flowers!
4.  My grandparents have been gone for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS and I still miss them.
5.  I love to hear little kids laugh- it's so real.
6.  I am a hugger.
7.  I hate to cry.  Not over sad/lovestory/touching/emotional movies or books but in real life when I am angry/sad/hurt/etc...  I feel that it makes others see me as vulnerable and I HATE that because I also hate being taken advantage of which is what a lot of people do when they see someone as vulnerable. 

Now, y'all KNOW how I HATE to narrow these things down to just a few of my favorite blogs BECAUSE I follow all of you for a REASON- I LOVE to read your blogs!  So, if you feel that your blog falls into any of the following categories (all are synonyms of VERSATILE) I implore you to take the AWARD and post it PROUDLY on your blog!  Come on y'all.  After all, I did IMPLORE you!  Oh, and there's one more thing:  tell which synonym you chose!

accomplished; multifaceted; resourceful; functional; adaptable; dexterous; ingenuous; versatile.

There are no A-Z Blog Challenge posts on Sundays!  Can I get a Hallelujah?!