Garden Update

Finally after weeks and weeks and weeks of checking out my clusters of green tomatoes - success! My first ripe tomato from my very own garden. It's a Texas Yellow, and that seems to be the variety that's done the best on my little porch. I'm so pleased with myself I don't know if I can bring myself to eat it yet. I just might take to walking it around the apartment, stroking it and calling it "Precious."

In other plant updates, the Black Prince tomato plant is no longer with us. It shriveled into oblivion a few weeks ago despite my many attempts to save it. The Striped Germans are just beginning to put little green tomatoes forth, and the Brandywine has had one huge green fruit hanging on for weeks.

I cut back the lemon balm hard a few weeks ago, and I think I went too nuts because the remaining leaves went brown and stringy and it's been water logged ever since. It's a perennial, so I'm hoping that it will come back regardless. The lemon basil and spicy globe basil are doing well - I really need to harvest it and make pesto! The thyme, oregano and rosemary are doing quite respectably, but nothing matches my mammoth orange mint.

I have enough mint to make mojitos for the entire free word. It's spilled over its container and fashioned itself into a hanging plant over the porch banister. Who knew? Does anyone out there have recipes that call for mass quantities of mint? I'm open to recommendations!

All the small things

A few little things are making me happy these days. Buttons=Crafter's Crown Jewels!
This handful of vintage buttons was picked up at an antique store in Lee. They make me so happy, they might as well be rubies!



How cute is this little hankie? She's begging to be appliqued on something. Purse? Apron? Who knows! I love those little buttoned shoes!

More on the nerd-tacular organizing front, I just about flipped out when I saw this fabric folding tutorial via The Happy Zombie. I folded all of my fabric and organized it by color.



Then I took it a step further, following the path of many other bloggers, and organized my bookcase by color:



I had a job interview today - I'll find out by Thursday or Friday. Cross your fingers and your toes peeps!

this is how i like to spend my weekend

Eating tasty local food (this cuke sandwich is my non-entered our local summer week #11 meal- how many weeks have flown by since I've done this??? i'm a bad blogger!)



Taking care of business, i.e. cleaning, crafting, cooking, etc. On the agenda this week was giving myself a little hair cut.



Other activities that I like to partake in, and had the fun of partaking in this weekend, are thrift shopping and eating copious amounts of baked goods with my mum, hanging out with my hubby, watching my hubby's band play, discovering new things, like up and coming bands like Hayley Jane and the Primates, seeing old friends, eating indian food, fresh local peaches and enjoying life, every moment.

Happy Day - It's a Boy!

My brother Thom and his girlfriend Michelle gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday at 8:13PM. His name is Aaron Thomas Wickwire Duclos. He weighs 6lbs and is 19 inches long. And he's too cute for school!







I completely love that he looks like a little matryoshka doll bundled up in that last photo! I can't wait to meet this little guy :)