New York, New York...

Arrived safe and sound,  the view out of the window of the aircraft

I stowed Penggie away in my purse...shhhh:



Look he has already made friend! :-)

Ok off downtown, lets see what we find.

New York here I come!

I am leaving tomorrow bright an early for NYC.  7:25 am ! Ugh!  But that means I arrive in the city at 6 pm eastern which helps with the time change situation.  Clothing been packed since last Tuesday, yeah I know ...weirdo. LOL  Finished packing yesterday.   I am also taking a little friend with me.

Penggie is all set and excited about his trip!  (If you don't know Penquins are my "thing"). 

I am going to miss "the honey" and my little furball Patches.  Speaking of which, checkout his new summer do:

It took us forever to find a groomer that would not hurt him and do a great job.  Isn't he handsome? :-) 



Next Post should be from NYC! woohoo!

July 11th Garden Update

Well here is my garden as of today:

Giant Tomato: The tomatoes are supposed be gigantic.  I read about them and they are supposed to be good for sauce.

Green Grape:  This the plant that refused to die.  Yeah!  All the leaves fell off but sice the stalk was still green I kept watering it and now it has new leaves.  Don't know if I will get anything from it but just feels good that it survived. lol

6 Tomato Plants: All the tomato plants taking in the sun!

Tomato (?): Got this at the Great Basin Food Coop seedling sale in late spring and there was a sign that said it was a "yellow pear tomato" but its way bigger then my other yellow pear so not sure what I will get.  So I am calling it "Surprise Tomatoes". :-)

Lemon Thyme:  Isn't he pretty? :-) Yes I said "he".  Just feels like a "he".  For some reason this is my favorite plant.  It smells WONDERFUL!

Oregano: Don't know what type but it has little white flowers all over.  Isn't she nice? (Yes she!)  She is very good friends with LT (Lemon Thyme).

Purple Bell:  Just started getting flowers.

Yellow Bell:  Also finally got flowers, Yippy!

Arugula & Lettuce: Planted this just last Tuesday (5th of July)....and LOOK already sprouting up! 

The rest:  There is a Lemon Cucumber next to LT and Strawberries on the lower level.  On the bench there are several Green/Red Bells, two types of herbs that I forgot to label so not sure what I am getting (oops), a Juliet Hybrid Tomato, Musk mellow and something else I forgot to label so not sure what it is either. LOL I know its probably too late for the ones on the bench but they are doing well so I am just going to go as far as I can with them.  My zucchini, yellow squash, broccolli, eggplant, green beans, cilantro and parsley didn't make it.  But considering this is the first time I have ever done this I am not doing to bad.

Kathy's Garden

Kathy has a wonderful summer garden going on.

The first pic is her onions, I just think there are funny looking.  The bottom one is her potato & sunchoke plants.  The sunchokes are huge.  I have never had one before, looking forward to trying one.

Cool Art

Kathy & Paul have some very cool art in their house.  ESPECIALLY the last pic!  That one is called "Fire Dancer".  What a great artist! (Hee hee...I painted that)

Babies!

My friend Kathy has a yard full of chickens, geese & ducks. Didn't take pics of all of them but did get the babies in the clover.  Soooo cute.

 See the baby chicks in the clover?

 "CLOVER! Yummy"

"Hey you guys stop drinking my pond!"

(there is actually a pond on the property for them to swim in but at this time they are too little to join the big birds.)

Aren't they cute-ness?  They kept running away from me though.

4th of July Weekend

Spent the 1st through the third surrounded by a lovely 40 acres of Nevada country at my friend's Kathy & Paul's house.  Its simplly gorgeous out there.  No matter how hot it gets out there at night you open all the windows and doors and a lovely cool breeze floats through.