long post for fun times

so, i've been doing some fun things but haven't posted. So here are some comments and photos. hopefully not too long of a post!

Winter was well on its way, killing off the garden. I covered up flowers and tomatoes, peppers, even the zuchini plant. And got up early before the sun to spray things that I hadn't covered so they could survive. And it didn't warm back up for winter for over a week or so, so I felt stupid going out every night but didn't have time to actively harvest. Eventually I stopped getting up to spray and then stopped covering some of the flowers. and then joy of joys it warmed back up and has been worth it for the last two weeks or so!

Of course the squash was gone after the first night. Some of the squash got frosted but seem to be keeping just fine. I pulled the rest in as it got colder. Here is Angela displaying some fruits of my labor.

While the bannana squash are huge, the spaghetti squash is definately the winner as far as production goes. Unfortunately they got in late and didn't have a chance to ripen before frost.

I had a picture with Angela and some of my other veggies but lost that one. Here are three giant carrots I picked today with a regular store carrot on the far right for comparison.

My box of huge red tatoes. Nuff said.

Like I said earlier, I covered the zuchinni but as it hailed one night the ice sitting on top of the sheet was enough to freeze it. Guess I had enough zuchinni anyways.

So, a guy at work brought in a huge moving box full of organic apples (ie from a tree in his backyard that they didn't do anything with). I had one for lunch and then being the last one who left for the day, took down the sign he put up (free apples) in the office and took the WHOLE BOX. Kate and Mama were so happy you would've thought it was the latest boy band showing up to a teenage girl sleepover. I have made many many many batches of dried apples (which have all disapeared strange enough), some fresh applesauce, and yesterday apple butter due to Bethanie's inspiration.

I got my haircut short again. Its not as A-line as last time and a little shorter. I look cute. Too bad you can't tell from my photos.

Went to the Rooster restaurant with Angela. It was very tasty and her face was clasic when she got her first "zhen zhu" or Boba. This is Andy and Simi's new restaurant in Provo. My favorite is the chocolate lava cake.

I went up to park city with Cathy on a last fling before bball starts in ernest. It was beautiful weather, we toured the Heber Valley Camp (girls camp run by the church but wouldn't really work for our family reunion), saw amazing clounds, checked out the olypmic venue and had a fun, easy time. Cathy didn't want her picture taken, as you can tell but I got her in the car talking to Malinda.

My Maxmillian sunflowers are only starting to bloom and most of them fell down. I'm really hopefull for next year! My regular sunflowers seemed to not be as healthy this year. I'm not going to be able to mulch a lot of flowers and veggies due to disease.





I think these dahlias are perenials. I got some really pretty ones and so I'm excited for next year. I do want to get some of those giant ones just for fun.

This post is all mixed up, so just to clarify Angela came up conference weekend. She even managed to score some tickets. I don't know if she had that much fun hanging out with an old lady like me but it was fun to me to spend time with her. After Sat afternoon conference we went to petsmart to get Thorpe groomed but apparently its by appointment only. So he is still stinky but he got to pick out some toys. He likes the squeeker in this rubber ball but didn't like to pick it up. It made me laugh.

Last week is when I got my hair cut and then went to Park City. I also made an appointment for Lasik. I'm a good canidate thanks to my thick corneas. Whoohooo. I've got a pre-op next week and the following week I may get my eyes lasered. I say MAY because I MAY whimp out.