Turn out the lights, the party's over...

Thought I'd share a few pictures.

Jarin's birthday cake...she had to get Iron man because

they didn't have Capt. America...no matter, she loves them all...ha.
One of her gifts was a new bedding set.

Cori's portrait of The Joker in icing...

Some harvested peppers...cooked the bells in baked beans.

Couple of days later got 7 more bells and lots of jalepena,

cayenne and others that look like pepperoncini.

 Hubby grilled steak last Sunday so we cooked those bells

on the grill.

My two 'refusing to completely die' tomato plants.

Above the Roma, below the celebrity...

When I took Rylie out yesterday morning, I saw something lying under the pine tree. I thought it was a cat at first, but soon realized it was a young fox. It finally decided to head back to the woods. Wish I had thought to get my camera. Maybe next time I'll catch a pic.

Oh, and I ran out of luck, they changed me over to the new blogger... : (

Have a great weekend everyone,

Sheila

Happy Birthday Jarin...

My first born turned 22 today

or will at 11:22 tonight...ha.

the night she was born...

home from the hospital...

not quite a year old...

around 16 months...

She wanted to eat out at 0live Garden for her birthday so that is where we went. We will celebrate with cake tomorrow.

Went to Wally World the other day to restock some of our supplies and decided to get me a puzzle mat and a box of Th0mas Kincaid puzzles. There are ten puzzles in the box.

We have had nice weather lately but I think it's supposed to rain for a few days starting Sunday. But it will be nice again. I'm really enjoying these cooler temps.

Take care,
Sheila

Where does the time go...

I am back! We are all good. Updated my blog for Fall and changed the photo in the previous post. The other one was animated and I decided to change it. Nothing out of the ordinary happening, Mom is healing from her surgery and going to therapy. But most of you read her blog so you already know.

We had a visit from one of Paula's turtles a while back. I went out to go pick up Jarin and there was a turtle on the driveway near the side of the house. I called Cori out and she took it back to the wooded area behind the house. I told her it looked like it turned around to come back toward the house. I left to pick up Jarin and when we got back the turtle had already made it back to the front and was by the road. We watched to make sure it got across the road okay, I guess it was bound and determined to get back to Paula so she could feed it...ha.

We still have some bell peppers growing along with some other peppers, one is jalapeno, not sure about the other. Got 4 eggplant off the plant a couple of days ago, but mine are narrow, more similar to a cucumber shape. Parsley still growing. Chives are still there but haven't grown any bigger. The parsley and chives were covered up by the squash and zucchini that took over. But I pulled it up after I got some to cook. Hubby had one watermelon that grew, it was about the size of a football, but it was good.

Jarin and I went to see 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' and 'Madea's Witness Protection' Sunday. The first had Judi Dench in it. I had wanted to see it but it never came to the regular theater near us. I noticed on Sunday that it was on at the $2.50 theater as well as Madea's so we went. We enjoyed both of them, Jarin wasn't to sure she would like the first one but she did. I told her I'm a good movie picker...ha.

We are having nice weather this week, sunshine and temps in the 70's and 50's.
Take care,
Sheila

Happy 4th of July!

We are still around... We have celebrated an anniversary, the 26th, on May 31st. Hubby celebrated a birthday on June 5th. Mom broke her hip on June 9th, no, we're not celebrating that, but we are working on getting her healed up. The girls and I have been here in Alabama since June 13th, that is the day she got out of the hospital. My niece came to spend the night so she would be here until I got here. They replaced the ball of her hip as that is what cracked. She went out to get the paper that morning and it was raining, Millie, her newest dog, jumped up on her and it caused her to slip and fall. She is doing well and the doctor said she could put full weight on it this Friday. She's not allowed to bend over yet since they had to cut the muscle and it still needs longer to heal and strengthen. She'll be back to her usual self before she knows it. My Dad is doing well also.

My brother and his family from Texas got here Saturday. They went down to the beach for the day today. We're just taking it easy today, some of the young ones will probably pop some fireworks
later. Hope everyone has a great 4th!

Take care, Sheila

Tomato Monday...

Got a couple of pictures to share of our first two tomato plants ( we bought 2 more since these) and one planter of our strawberries ( we have 2). I took a couple of the vegetables in the planter but they've grown since I took them so I'll wait and take another picture. I've seen one squash starting to grow, that's one more than I was able to grow in Alabama...ha. They would bloom but never made a squash.

These are the celebrity tomatoes

This is the Roma's. It is loaded down with them.

One planter of strawberries. A bird got my first strawberry before I did...

I don't think the tomato plants have grown any taller since they put on all the tomatoes.

Thanks for the Mother's Day wishes. I hope all the Mothers out there had a great day.

Take care,

Sheila

In memory of Mr. Ray 'Dad' White...

I just wanted to pay a little tribute to Mr. Ray 'Dad' White (http://tomatogardeningwithdad.blogspot.com/). He passed away on Wednesday May 9th at 98 years old. He was a sweet man, who loved the Lord, his family, his friends and his blogging family. He also loved his garden, especially his tomatoes and roses.

I wouldn't have known about this blogging community if it wasn't for Mr. White. Around October of 2005, our local paper in Mobile, AL had a story on 'Dad, America's oldest blogger'. This was back when it was still AOL Journals. I started reading his journal and from his journal I found others. Then, they shut down AOL journals and the ones who still wanted to blog moved mostly to blogger. I didn't decide to give it a try until after it moved to blogger. So thank you Mr. White for introducing me to this blogger world and all the wonderful friends I have made here.

Rest in Peace 'Dad'

We'll miss you.

Sheila

Plants, plants and more plants...

I waited a day later to post my last entry so I could take a picture of the Broom shrub. I went out that day to water the tomatoes, bell peppers, blueberries and everything else that needed watering, and I put my arm down on the top of the deck rail. When I moved to water something else I noticed that area was burning.....I looked and I had picked up a boat load of splinters...well maybe not a boat load but a lot. Thankfully, later on, my new favorite daughter Cori...ha... picked them out for me.

This past weekend the project was building a raised planting bed. Hubby got to use his new drills again (Jack they're Makita's). So now we have more vegetables growing. More bell peppers, squash, zucchini, cucumber, onions, parsley, purple brussel sprouts, eggplant, watermelon, cantaloupe and strawberries. I may have left something out, but that is all I could think of off the top of my head. I think I will get a couple of jalepeno plants. We got the broom shrub planted and he bought two dwarf azaleas. Maybe that is all for now...

Take care,
Sheila