Are you ready for the summer....

that was in homage to the movie meatballs that i watched last Friday instead of freaking out and getting my Friday Panic tickets that i needed so desperately. They went on sale at 10AM and i was on the couch relaxing for our trip to California later that afternoon (story is in previous blogs) so then about 10AM i thought maybe i should go check my emails and see what is happening in the world of famous people in the gossip websites i visit. And then it hit me that i needed to get tickets. I am glad it hit me then, because i was able to sign on to a local radio station's website and buy their super secret super stash of tickets. So we are set for that show in October.
For now, i am back at work and trying to find the grind. I have been in the groove for about a month now and sometimes it is hard to shake the groovy ways and get back to the grind. Know what i mean? But i love my job, so i am sure it wont take me long.
Well thats about it for now. I am going to heat up some lunch and keep watching some tapes.
Not a bad day... hope snack is good.
Oh, so i was out at the garden yesterday, which, by the way isn't doing too good. We have a bunch of tomatoes, but not nearly the amount we had last year, and same for the zucchini and squash. I hope i didn't just jinx myself, but we are not having the harvests each night that we experienced last summer. We have about 4 small watermelon, they are the size of golf balls right now... guess we should have planted them early in the spring, but we get a long winder, so we planted them as soon as we could. Note to self, not a good Colorado crop. And the eggplant yeilded so far only one eggplant, but it is pretty. Our beans dies, the peas are done and we planted more that are starting to sprout. The carrots went crazy but are just little stumpy things, so we are letting them go longer. The cucumbers are great and i am eating them as fast as we are bringing them in. which isnt as fast as i would like, but they are coming. Green peppers and hot peppers are actually doing great.
Ok, now that's it...
off the get lunch :)

How does your garden grow?

So, here are a few pictures of our garden. Last year we had a good one also. This year we changed up the layout to maximize the amount of water each vegetable can get with the sprinkler system and not having to manually hold the hose. As with last summer we will be going out of town for some music later in the summer and getting a friend to come feed the dogs and let them out is asking a lot, but to ask them to water our garden too is too much. Especially for one friend that tends to come and stay while we are gone.

So, everything is in the ground and sprouting, so here are the first pictures of the garden.
(Cant tell i figured out how to add photos:)~

S0.....This one is our spicy lettuce mix












This is the tomato plants and a ton of Zucchini, squash, cucumber and water melon. We planted a ton of seeds and will weed out the weaker plants as they get bigger. We learned out lesson last year with more zucchini then we could stand.








And the third is the whole garden, We have a ton of spinach right now. Some how the snow we had all winter protected our crop from last summer. We were so surprised when the snow melted and our spinach was still green and growing. As i speak my boyfriend is making a spinach lasagna for dinner. i think it is safe to say we will be eating everything spinach for a while. But we are also growing green peppers, hot chili peppers, eggplant, carrots, onion, three different tomatoes, green beans and in the picture my boyfriend is tending to the peas.

It is going to be a yummy summer.