MOCHA MORNINGS

 Exhibit A  Exhibit B  Obviously, the Topsy Turvy (Exhibit A) failed me.  I followed the directions, doing everything it said to do.  Even bought a fancy pants Topsy Turvy stand to hang them from and my tomato plant still did not survive.  Peppers, however, are still looking good.  Exhibit B, pictured above, shows the left over tomato plants that would not fit in the TT that we just threw into a planter we had in the back yard and added some fresh soil with no high expectations of it surviving. We were wrong. These tomato plants are thriving and look beautiful and I am actually hopeful that it might produce a tomato or two.  Topsy Turvy, I am so sad that you failed me.

t he 14 year old's epic breakfast creation this morning. and in all honesty i just now realized it has a hot dog in it. weighing in at 141.8 lb, he is 6'1" and wears a size 13 1/2 in a men's shoe.  With basketball summer workouts starting last week, he is burning the calories as quickly as he consumes them. must be nice to eat like this and still lose weight. aw, to be a teenager again..... s o, as I sit here and watch him devour his cheesy, meaty sandwich while watching "epic meal time 84 egg sandwich" video on YouTube,  I will sip on my cup of Joe and eat the remainder of my apple.     

Summer is here and the reading program at our local library is up and running at full speed. The first program was yesterday and this balloon man, who goes by the name of Mister Jazz, was there to perform some balloon tricks and creations for the kiddos.  As he was preparing for his big finale, I wish I too had prepared myself and gotten my phone set to record video. By the time I realized what this crazy cat was doing, I was only able to get about 46 seconds of his performance filmed with my phone.  The kids LOVED it, but personally, it was a little creepy to me. Summer brotherly love is also up and running....and crashing and burning here at home.  Four brothers under the same roof, all day long, for an entire week has been quite the adventure to say the least.  I have heard the names Barbie Girl and Sissy Baby at least 100 times in the past five days.  However, the funniest "name calling" that is taking place is coming from the five ye...

last night the hub and I made a deal, we would get up at 5:30 before he left for work and go for a walk. I roll over this morning at 6:23 a.m., as he is putting his shoes on, and realize that I had overslept. So, as tempting as it was just to roll over and go back to sleep, I drug my butt out of bed, gave the boy a kiss, put on my Nike's and went for a walk, by myself.   As I was walking I snapped this shot with my phone.  I live in a historic carriage district in town and there are several houses that have these lights in their yards. I think they are so cool. Our next door neighbor even has one.  And even though we admire it during the daytime we curse it at night when the bright light is shinning through our upstairs bedroom window. EXCITED! but for only a minute.  I finally put two and two together and realized that if you have this nifty sensor in your Nike shoes and you have an iPhone you can go to settings, Nike + iPod, sensor and a l...

 Back when I blogged, Green Thumb, Not I , I wasn't kidding....here's an update. I would find success with just the production of one tomato. Still keeping my fingers crossed. The tomato plant. Not looking so good. Getting worried..... I'm still hopeful. Maybe there's a pepper in my future after all....  The dog.  Still terrorizing the neighborhood.... 

i suggest never attempting to mix food coloring with almond bark. it doesn't work. you're creamy dipping deliciousness turns into a glob of stickiness.  trust me...i know.  back to the drawing board.... 

i f I plant something, it is going to die. That's a fact.  No matter what I do my flowers never seem to survive.  I wish I knew how much money I have spent on hanging plants in my lifetime, only to have them dry up, burn up, or die from too much moisture.  So, don't ask me why we decided to plant tomato and pepper plants this year, but we did.... Jalapeno and Banana Peppers When we were making our purchases at Home Depot I told the cashier that this was my first "As seen On TV Purchase".  And actually, I was really excited about it, but also felt like we should be ordering it off of the infomercial so that we could get two for the price of one, plus a free chopper, slicer, a set of knives, storage containers and one can only imagine what else, all for $19.99 with separate S&H, of course. So yes, without even having to think about it twice, we purchased a  Topsy Turvy ! Actually we purchased two, one for pep...