Major Mom Over the course of the day, the stamen will produce their bright yellow pollen, such as what’s seen here. It’s all very fast…this flower was wilted by sunset. As promised two posts ago, here’s a nice pretty post for you. This is our Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) plant that grows in front of Jacob’s bedroom window … Read more
I’m doing this for a contest at the Crock Pot Recipe Exchange blog. It’s simple, but it’s sorta difficult to remember to set up breakfast the evening before. “Real” oatmeal is heaven if you prepare it correctly. If you’re unfamiliar with the different “cuts” of oatmeal, here’s a nice primer for you. My kids are … Read more
This is a representative forecast, click here for the latest! Our thoughts and prayers are with those preparing for the onset of Hurricane Irene. My family experienced the crazy 2004 Hurricane Season on the East Coast of Florida. We packed both cars, both kids, our dog, and our most valuable belongings and tearfully evacuated our … Read more
Ready to be grossed out? This morning I went to the backyard to cover our grill (I forgot to cover it last night) and when I picked up the cover, this thing fell out and started walking across our patio: At about 4″ long, you can’t just ignore this thing! Okay, are you done screaming … Read more
That beautiful garden from last March-May? All but dead. The insane heat, plus the lack of rain earlier this summer made it tough to maintain after our vacation. Between the tomato hornworms, blossom end rot and other crap, I just said “forget it”. It was too hot to even stand outside to prune. No fun! … Read more
I had some ground pork in the freezer. I had picked it up to make some meat loaf, but then I found The Country Cook’s recipe which ended up not needing the pork after all (Tangent: want to make a small meatloaf with just 1 pound of ground meat? Brandie’s recipe is very very nice!) … Read more
Today was the first day of school in our boys’ public school system. Unlike our experience in Nebraska, where the boys walked to school and the parents were requested to spend the first hour of the first day of school with the kids…here the parents met with the teachers last week and the kids were encouraged to take the buses and get dropped off.
Dave and I didn’t have much to document this morning, since it was just them getting on the bus, but here are the pictures we did receive. Enjoy!
WARNING: This is a LONG post. I debated dividing it into two parts, but couldn’t find an easy dividing point. So instead I put in some headers to try to break up the story a bit. It was our entire motivation for our trip to Atlanta last weekend: we had Braves tickets! During Jacob’s … Read more
Wow, I’d been scarce from these for a while – the last one I did was #46. Oops. Well our lives are settling back to normal and I hope to become a regular here again. These ones should be simple this week 🙂 1. My spouse and I rarely agree on how much money we … Read more