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Nice morning, so stepped out and shot some updated pictures of the garden. We had a bad storm hit here a couple weeks ago and knocked the rows of corn over plus the habanero plant and basil were almost pulled from the roots. The corn seems to prop back up when the sun comes out, so hopefully not a lost cause. The habanero plant Dave is trying to save, basil seems ok since a little primping. Something is getting a hold of our
broccoli. Maybe a rabbit or birds. I need to make a scarecrow, need a flannel but I
don’t own one anymore, anyone have one they don’t want?

Roscoe is all better now, he is over the sickness, thank goodness it wasn’t parvo!

Is everyone off today?  I feel guilty for not working, so may get in a couple hours later, but so far this morning, I have done the dishes, started the laundry, made rib rub and just rubbed down a rack to sit for a couple hours before I put them on.  Yummers, can’t wait, we will be smoking them later with apple wood.

Picture of the ribs down below with the others……Beth, I made an extra batch of my rub, will be sending it your way or maybe we can meet at Panera for lunch.

Dave is going crazy with this new contraption he bought for cat hair, called The Pledge Pet Hair Pickup.  It’s a great product as long as you tweak it.  They made it to where you have to throw it out when it gets full and buy another.  Yea right, with all the hair in our place that wouldn’t be smart, so he cut a hole about an inch in diameter and sucks all the hair out with the vacuum cleaner, then puts tape over the hole while in use.  Pretty cool, now the thing will last and last!  My hubby is so smart.

It’s only been a week since we planted the garden, check it out!

Update later: added finished ribs, they turned out great!

thanks to a couple changes in our lives, we are now getting our lives back on track. I am getting more work soon and Dave got a promotion at work. He gets a brand new work truck and all, it’s very exciting. Just what we needed to get the ball rolling again. Dave this weekend is working on building us a front deck.

Yesterday I worked for hours on a debt payoff plan. I love doing this kind of stuff, if anyone out there would like me to help them get their finances in order, let me know. I come cheap, no money up front. heh.

I am not ashamed to say that we are $33,000 in debt. Doesn’t include cars, houses, etc, just credit cards and personal loans. With my new debt pay off plan that is going to begin on Oct 1, we are going to drop an extra $1000 a month towards our debts. Using the snowball effect, we will be debt free by December of next year. So what’s another 16 months of sacrificing and not getting out much, I am so in.

Garden update……until next year folks.

At 133. =)

Looks like we could get some fall out from Gustav, the last evacuation bus left at 3pm today. Scary stuff, I hope everything will be ok. A lot of evacuees came to Memphis. BACK OFF GUSTAV!!

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hey hey what up. Summer is officially here, been in the 100′s every day. My poor baby has to work out in it every day. I am indoors constantly with the A/C set just right. =) As soon as it starts getting cooler, I will venture outside and pick up my running again. Whats that you say? Get outside and run before it gets hot? Honey, the heat index was 92 when I woke up at 7:30!! And here, there is no cooling down at dusk, the heat and stickiness just lingers around forever and the bugs are horrendous!!!! I swear there is one horsefly out there that just waits for me to come outside so he can torment me.

Lots of good things in the works, don’t want to spill the details quite yet, but I’ll just say that our businesses we are starting have great prospects and that things are looking up for us! For me, I am finally over my work drama from months back, things are on track and I am very excited at the direction my life has taken. A great big thank you to D.A. for changing my life forever.

Our garden is still somewhat going. Bell Peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon are all thriving. Our corn went to crap, we haven’t a clue what happened. The one time we tried it, it didn’t have any flavor whatsoever. We think maybe it was feed corn. ick.

What else good is happening…… we keep selling junk we found around our property, the last vehicle went last night, 700 bucks, woohoo!! The place has really cleaned up nicely and good that we are making a little money, because our property must make 1500 bucks a year, or we lose our Greenbelt status. No pressure really.

Cats are good, dogs are good, I love Red, he has stuck around and been a fun and protective addition to our family. Yesterday, a car came onto our property, but quickly realized he was trespassing and drove out. The car was already gone and I looked over in Red’s spot where he sits and he was sleeping and didn’t notice the car, but seconds later, he popped up and went running in the direction of the car, smelling all around and went exactly where the car was. He must be a hunting dog or something. Also when he hears a gunshot, he goes running towards it. Love him.

Friday is almost here, have a good one.