61 Days of Summer-Day #2

In the Garden....

 

Baby Tomatoes

 

 

Don't be fooled.  Every year this tree tells me I will have peaches.  Right before it drops all of them on the ground before they can get ripe.  I have so few things growing in my garden right now though.  Gotta get excited about something.

 

This past winter was COLD and all of my herbs except this one lavender died.  I lost my big and beautiful, 10 year old rosemary bush.  So sad.

 At the pool...

This is still going on for 2.5 more weeks.  After that, I'll not be enrolled in a single class for 8 weeks.  I need that.  You have no idea how much I need that.

 

In my room...

The need to clean and repaint every surface in my house happened 6 summers ago.  If you know me, you know that story.  I'm intrigued it's happening again.  I have a good husband who allows all this to go on.

In the kitchen...

Portobello "steaks" with caramelized onions, mashed potatoes and salad.

61 Days of Summer-Day #1

 

Grilled chicken and pineapple with Brussels sprouts and artisan salad with poppy seed dressing

 



The first day is always "nothing major".  Mostly, a day of decompression.  With real dinner at the end.

O.K...one major thing:  I got a new job.  It needed to happen.  I was giving up hope it was going to happen. 

I'm trying to remain cognizant of what happens every summer, before it happens this summer.  At the beginning, it's like looking into a huge wasteland of time.  And then, by August, I'm in some depression all the stuff I wanted to do didn't get done.

Going to try and be a little more organized on the front end.  I did that once and it was kind of awesome.

61 Days of Summer

61 is such a random number, but that is what it is...61...from my first day out of school until the last day before I go back.  I hope I make them good.

Cousins

 

The most important part of the weekend first:  I finally met my nephew!  I only have one and he's almost 7.  

 

  Jac and Liam got on well with each other right away.

 The Cloyd family legacy.  In hindsight, Ryan and I should have had a rack of kids. This is it for his parents and my parents only have my two.  Doesn't make for a very "branchy" family tree.

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In other news, Granddad gave Alicia a gift.  I think he really meant it for Ryan, but it's Al that has been in charge of cutting the grass for the last couple of years.  It isn't that we didn't already have a riding mower, we do.  But something is wrong with it (in a major kind of way that is beyond my fixing) and it hasn't seen the outside of the shed in a long while.  We have push mowers and they do just fine.  Needless to say, (despite her annoyance I was taking pictures), she's thrilled.

 



 

 

Haha...I think she wasn't expecting it to move so suddenly.

 

 

I'd like to say getting it from point A to point B was not a stress causer for me.  It all worked out, but lemme tell you...there are some things that are fairly dangerous when not done conventionally.  We encroached on those borders.

 





#10

Real Stuff, Right Here

 

Weekend Randomness:

I thought last weekend was the last week of lacrosse.  It wasn't.  I think we are done, now.  Thank God.

The big take-away is "you can't win Lax Max every year". (AKA:  We didn't win.)

Further evidence this child of mine has grown.  Ryan just took him for his camp physical and he's at the top of the chart for both height and weight.  Maybe there will be one of us who makes it to normal height?

He also needs a haircut.  It's an ongoing battle.  I really only like one style-the military haircut.  He's not going for that.

Nevermind the wrestling shirt.  I was just happy he chose something that matched the rest.  It was covered by a pinnie anyway.

Who knew we had a badminton set in the basement? 

 

"Beef"  (Portobello mushrooms) and Brocolli

The real stuff:

Life gets crazy amidst the pretty pictures.  For example, just today...ha...just today.

Yoga at 7 a.m.  That will likely be some other post when I feel like getting real again.

Napping and avoiding reality and crazy dreams.  That ended with something meaningful I need to write down before I forget.

3 quizzes.  80%, 60% and 55%.  My child wandering around on eggshells saying things like "It happens."  Uh...not to me it doesn't.  Not normally, anyway.

Shivery and trembly and wondering "What the heck is going on?"  Until I remembered it was night and the whole day was doughnuts, a pot of coffee and Diet Mt. Dew.  And yesterday was kind of the same and the day before that I was downtown and it was kind of the same and the day before that was...pizza, I think.  Ahem...when did we last eat real food?

Tonight.  Ryan and I, anyway.  The kids, not so much.

I need for school to be out so I can get back to creating the illusion of what isn't real.  :-)

D.C.

 

DAR...P.S.  I'm joining them this summer.  :-)

 

Washington Monument

 



 

Hmm...I dunno...some building I thought was pretty?

 

 

American Red Cross

 

 

Some fountain down the street from George Wash. U.  I wonder what the inspiration was for this?  My friend Liz thinks cannons.  I think...not cannons.  Not my favorite fountain in D.C.

 

 

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