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The Week Ahead

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These weeks are just flying by. Almost time to pull out the Halloween decorations and today I actually began my Christmas shopping. Sort of. I tried but did not find anything good.

Here is what the week has in store for me:

Monday, September 15, 2008 – The first day of BBAW (Book Blogger Appreciation Week). What an event! I am still toying with the idea of a giveaway. I have one scheduled for the week of 9/29 and I told that author it would be my first so I feel as if I shoud not post one until then, but you never know. Yoga class today at lunch. Must go as I missed last week due to work. Need to finish Greasy Rider tonight so I can post the review. Tonight is also the first rehearsal for The Music Man. This will be my son’s 6th show. He loves it and it is such a good group of kids. I love it too and I get to read during rehearsal time (if I am not helping).

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 – Will post my review of Greasy Rider. Need to address birthday invites for my daughters 5th bday. It’s her first big party where a ton of kids will be invited. Out here, we have to invite the entire class if she hands out invites during class so there will be a lot of kids for sure. I need to read at least 50 pages of The Meaning of Night from here on out or I won’t be done in time for next month’s book club. It’s over 700 pages. ‘Nuff said.

Wednesday, September, 17, 2008 – Technical consult at work and then Yoga again at lunch. Need to read another 50 pages of The Meaning of Night. Also have to order party stuff for kid #2.

Thursday, September 18, 2008 – I have to teach a class today in the AM and then I think I have lunch with a coworker but have to confirm as I forgot to pencil it in! Read more pages of The Meaning of Night. I am just so far behind!

Friday, September 19, 2008 – Nothing planned today! At least not right now. On second thought, my son has this book report that requires us to “act” it out in pictures. That means that I have to dress up as a gypsy with a crystal ball and my husband gets to be Sherlock Holmes. I need to record all of this in B&W for him to assemble and present. I LOVE that this teacher makes reading fun. We may use this free day to capture some of the photos. Probably a better use of my time than just sitting around.

The Weekend – I would really like to fit the County Fair in this weekend. We missed it last year. It was just too hot and too crowded. I do not do well in crowds. I get crabby. I know, extremely hard to believe!

Have a good week!

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What Do YOUR Tomatoes Look Like This Year?

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When we moved into this house in 2007, it came with a huge yard and included a space for a vegetable garden. My son took an immediate liking to this since he has always wanted to plant his own vegetables. I don’t why, as he does not eat any vegetables. Anyway.. that first year we had a lot of yummy tomatoes.

This year, my son planted Sweet 100’s. Now, I don’t know much about gardening so when he dug and planted four of these plants, I figured we would have a steady stream of tomatoes to take us through the year after freezing and canning (like I’ve ever done this).

Let me just say that the first year, he maintained the garden. The second year…not so much. It’s on the side of the house and I rarely go out there and it cannot be seen from inside the house so when my husband told me that he wanted to pull all the plants out I was appalled! What?!? So I wandered out there. Oh my goodness. The four plants that my son planted turned into a wild, untamed jungle of sorts. I spent the next two days picking tomatoes, trimming them back, and lecturing my son about the whole incident. They taste pretty good though.

So I found it highly amusing that I came across this review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver this morning. Kingsolver and her family make a decision to eat home-grown or locally grown food for one year and this book chronicles their efforts. I find the idea fascinating but extremely time consuming. I just don’t have the time to cultivate food for my family to eat. Even with the tomatoes, the aphids were completely out of control and I would not want to use pesticides and I know the alternative methods require a consistent hand.

Has anyone read this book? Were you inspired by it? We have the space to do something and with the cost of produce it does sound appealing. Do any of you have vegetable gardens?