Garden Week Who Knows What

Summer's gotten so busy I can't keep up with the garden! Here are some random shots of things growing, changing colors, and trying their best not to die in the heat. There are tons of them, so I'm not going to caption them all!

Eggs!

Chopped Chipotles, mayo, and a few secret ingredients

Yum!

Finished product

Sooooooooooo good!

My newest deal is making chipotle deviled eggs, they're a huge hit and SUPER yummy! Here are the ones I made for the True Blood party for the premiere!

Whooooeeee!

It's been one thing after another since last week! After getting back from the doctor, we hung out with Michael and the kids, and then I tried not to stay bitter about staying home from Six Flags. I love Six Flags.

Thursday I was busy all day at work, then Iggy set me up with a boot for my left foot, and I talked with her and Wade for a while. Friday we went to work and then left straight from there to go up to Mississippi to see Jan and Marc for father's day. We watched Royal Pains with them, then Jeremy crashed out. I took a tramadol they gave me for pain and ended up stoned out of my mind playing games on Jan's iPhone until 4a. I tried several times to go to sleep and couldn't! I slept in a little while on Saturday since I was going to be useless anyway, then propped my leg up and played more games on the iPhone while Jeremy helped clear out yard stuff.

We got to meet up with Suzanne, Donna, and Ashley for an afternoon snack at B'dubs (mmm, Asian Zing!) and then came home and went to a Mexican place for dinner. We went out looking for a storm that evening, to no avail, then we watched a ton more Swamp Loggers and Man vs. Wild on Discovery Channel with Marc and Jan, and crashed. Slept in a little Sunday, watched some American Pickers on History Channel (which was a fun find), and headed back to Atlanta with time for a short rest, and a swing by Publix before True Blood!

This week already feels like it should be over, the work is piling up on my desk, and it's all because the server was down all day yesterday (literally) and my e-mail didn't work until nearly 9 this morning! I have lots of shopping to do for work, but my ankle hurts like crazy and I'm the only one who can do it. Oh, and I'm in the boot for at least another week, and I'm waiting for the adjusters to approve a semi decent physical therapist for the three weeks of three times a week PT that was prescribed. Goody. They better hurry because if I miss the Lake Lanier field trip I am going to be seriously miffed.

Tomorrow and Thursday is more running around crazy at work, and then Friday I'll go in for work, then leave from there to head to Morgan's to leave to go to Leadership Institute for AOII all weekend, which will end with me rushing back to get to Julian's birthday on Sunday afternoon! WHAAAAAAAAA, crazy.

More later, and those pictures I've been promising for weeks-- maybe I can get it done in some downtime at LI.

Ciao!

M

Cuidado! Piso Mojado!

Those three words, be they in a different language or not, could have saved me a lot of pain and suffering!

I was at the end of my shift today, and ran upstairs to grab some stuff off the printer (as someone messed with mine and it now doesn't want to work)-- I stepped off the elevator on the first floor at First School and started sliding. Someone had spilled a whole lot of water right there and hadn't bothered to clean it up or find a janitor to do it, so I hit the floor and bruised my ankle, knee, and hip. Imagine my chagrin as tomorrow is our trip to Six Flags!!

I went up and filed an incident report with the finance/HR office and they sent me over to Urgent Care at DeKalb Medical where I saw a doctor we used to see all the time when we went there as kids (it's the neighborhood doc in the box as well, it's not too bad for a walk in clinic). They took a million x-rays and everything looked ok, wrapped my ankle, and told me to stay off it for the rest of the week. They would have released me from work, but I need to be there so things run smoothly, unfortunately it means I can't go to Six Flags. I'm minorly irritated to say the least.

All this could have been avoided had someone just taken responsibility!

I do have more pictures of the garden, and I'm slowly getting pictures from the wedding up on Facebook. We've had them for a while, I've just been so busy!

Now we're keeping Michael company and watching "The Book of Eli" since it came out today-- I think it's a good movie, though I'm still torn on the very ending. This weekend, we'll head up to Southaven to see Jan and Marc for father's day, and hopefully see Suzy and a couple others as well. Until then, join with us and encourage the rain to come! We had our first rain in almost two weeks today and if it doesn't keep up we'll suffocate!

Garden Week Seven

Sooo, I totally forgot to post this last week! I saved it until I got more photos, but that didn't work.. I have more photos, but I'm just going to go ahead and post these since I have no clue when I'll have a chance later.

Lemongrass

All of it

Big ol' Cayenne and the first one to turn red

First red one

Giant bell

Mystery plant

Basil

Basil and mystery plants

Mystery plants

Tomatillo bud

Tomatillo flower

Pea vine

Pea vine

Currants

Mystery plant

Golden bell

Golden bell

Currants

Golden bell

Golden bell

Golden bell

Grill!

Pea vine

Pea flowers

The peas look fantastic! We're also really excited that the cayennes have started to turn and will be nice and edible soon. The banana peppers at camp have started growing in as well, and I'm hoping the tomatillos somewhere start growing in-- I'm dying to make either salsa verde or salsa perpurpa!

More pictures as soon as I can come up with some time!

Drop In!

We love living so close to Michael and the kids, and every so often they'll drop by on their way somewhere (or if Julian has a potty emergency) to say hi!

A happy ending...

So I've been really horrible at updating this and taking pictures of the garden and our lives in general. I was set on doing so today-- I had an hour between getting off work and leaving for my first 1,000 calorie class with Desiree (which I'd packed in for with a Chick'fil'a meal weighing in at just under 1,000 calories, but to be fair it was my only 1,000 calories for the day!) so I was going to finally take a picture of the bean plant that's struck out and is now strangling the large bush by our porch, the bean plant that has instead looped in and wrapped itself around, well, itself, and the first cayenne pepper to turn red! Not to mention the grill!

I sat down to have a yogurt and watch an episode of Angel and my phone rang, it was one of my counselors at the pool. Mine and Jeremy's favorite camper had been pulled from the pool unconscious and the ambulance was on the way. Thankfully, two rescue breaths resuscitated him and he was alert, coughing up water, and terribly upset about the whole thing. Any time you perform CPR on someone, an ambulance is required, and the great thing about living in Decatur is that we have some really great paramedics and we're about 7 minutes from CHOA (Children's Hospital of Atlanta-- premiere pediatric care in the South East). The little guy was sitting in the back of the ambulance when I got to the pool ahead of his mom, so we loaded up and headed straight over there, and they called his mom to have her meet us at the hospital.

We're still not sure exactly what happened-- the lifeguard's story differs greatly from my staff's version and I'm frankly inclined to believe my staff. They were clearing everyone out for adult swim and when they turned around, someone was pulling him out of the pool and calling for a lifeguard. Jeremy says W wasn't five feet from a lifeguard stand and the guard was not the one who pulled W out-- a woman who seemed to be an EMT, paramedic, or the like was the person who pulled him out. W told the doctor he wanted to jump in one more time, so we think there's a possibility he went to jump in and slipped, hit his head, and fell in instead. No matter what happened, it's clear that there's no fault in this. His parents said he's been getting a little reckless with regards to swimming, and he has a tendency to be that kid who always gets hurt.

I have a friend who is a nurse at CHOA and looked in on him tonight-- she says they'll discharge him either tonight or tomorrow morning and he's doing fine. He was chatting with me in the ambulance on the way over, and though he was obviously freaked he was fine other than a slight tummy ache. I hear chlorine will do that.

The parents have all been very supportive, which is nice-- when something like this happens, you not only worry about one of your favorite campers and their family, but worry that other families will be worried about sending their kids your way. Seeing someone that small so scared is traumatic, too, and I managed to hold it in until the nurse walked me out of the ER. I had to go back to camp to write up a statement (since you know some of those kids would have told their parents someone had died) and was given hugs by several parents, and received some very positive feedback through e-mail from others.

It was a hard day, probably the scariest call I've ever gotten (and will get until I have kids of my own), but I hope that I can handle it as well as his parents did-- I know it helps that he's fine in the end, but it made things go smoother that mom and dad weren't frantic, yelling, or extremely upset. When I called his mom she said, "Well, you're calling me in the middle of the afternoon, so that can't be good! What happened?"

Anyway, we're trying to figure out what our weekend is going to look like. We want to see everyone, but right now we're just so exhausted that we can't think about it right now! If we stay home, I'll update with something cheerier and some garden pictures.