Monday, August 18, 2008

Manic Monday

This is Maggie (laura's min pin) and Mama!! She really missed Ma while she was gone!
Remember my little garden that we planted...yeah it got a lot bigger!!
Did you know there are tomato plants, green pepper plants, and Corn growing in this mess of Marigolds? There are 6 Tomato plants, 6 pepper plants, and 8-10 corn stalks!!

We don't know how but these Marigolds are the size of my fist!!!
Ok so we successfully got Mom home last Thursday and I spent a couple days at Mom and Dad's house helping get her settled in.
This weekend was pretty laid back. Mike had a party for a guy from work on Friday night and I didn't leave Mom and Dad's until about 11:00PM.
Saturday we didn't get going until after 3 in the afternoon, but once we did we really got going! We had to go to Wal-Mart and get things for us to can some salsa and some things for Mom and Dad.
We delivered those items and spent a little time with the rents. It was nice! I really like seeing them both EVERY DAY! Too bad that is not possible!
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After that we went and visited Mike's mom and we all went to Walgreens.
Finally we headed for home about 9:00. Once we got there it was full speed ahead on canning salsa with tomatoes from our garden and peppers from my Mom's!
We had fun this was a learning experience for us but it went really really well! It is delicious, but we only had enough tomatoes to make 2 1/2 pints so we can't wait to get more!! Yum! The 1/2 is already gone! Well I was feeling festive during all this salsa making and made a pitcher of frozen margaritas, and it called for 1/2 can (that the mix was in) of tequila. So I added a 1/2 can of tequilas and another splash for good measure...well needless to say I drank the entire pitcher...yum yum but was way silly for the rest of the night!
Yesterday was Sunday. I dread Sundays. First of all, I had taken a couple days off work to help my parents out and since I spent a lot of time over there I got NOTHING done in my house! I spent most evenings at the hospital last week! So I stayed home yesterday and catch up on laundry, I think I did at least 5 loads. Now it's all clean! That never lasts long though! Derek came over and the boys played around with a metal detector. Too bad they didn't find any thing good!! But at least they had fun. That pretty much sums up the weekend. This week is already getting full! Pleas e-mail me and tell be how everyone is doing! I would really love to hear from ALL of you!!

1 comment:

Sara Lou said...

Hey Twin!
Your weekend sounds fun. I made some jelly a few weeks ago! I'm soooo domestic now. :)

You should take a road trip to deliver some of that home made salsa! If you do - you could write it all off on your taxes as a business venture..> "Carrie's Iowan Salsa"... and then write off all the expenses... since you grow the veggies @ home, you can write off your house as a 'business' expense, too!!! I'm sure it's legal...