Runaway October

Remem­ber the planter boxes my oh so accom­mo­dat­ing hus­band built for me? These guys?

And that this is what they looked like when I planted them?

Wanna guess what they look like now? No, really. Think about it.

This is Ari­zona, it’s hot. And as much as I hate to admit it, gar­den­ing is a never-ending ‘craft’. You can’t just plant it and for­get about it, like you can with most of the crafts I do. I’m not so great at ongo­ing projects.

Which is why I’m quite tick­led (and slightly over­whelmed) that they now look like this:

April 23^rd, Box 1

Notice how they’re still pretty much within their beds and you can sort of see all the indi­vid­ual plants.

April 23^rd, Box 2

Yeah.

Not any­more.

May7th

It’s a jungle.

Which is awe­some, but Holey Moley.

How am I ever going to tame this thing?

I’m really hop­ing that we’ll get some veg­gies off of it before the heat makes them go dormant.

Also think­ing about putting some kind of shade over it.

I learned awhile back that if the night temps don’t get low enough, it doesn’t mat­ter what I do, the toma­toes will stop fruit­ing, so hurry hurry lit­tle tomatoes.

Heir­loom Brandy­wine Tomatoes

Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes

Roma Toma­toes, pos­si­bly. Hard to tell in there.

Jalapeño

Crook­neck Squash

Green Bush Beans

The cucum­bers and hon­ey­dew are com­ing along nicely.

We picked some radishes the other night. I think they were crowded.

And there’s lot of herbs too. Cilantro, Dill, Lemon Thyme, Spearmint, Ste­via, Choco­late Basil, Choco­late Mint (I can never seem to pass up all the choco­late ones).

There’s car­rots buried in there too.

Maybe next year, I wont pack in so many toma­toes.

How does your gar­den grow this year?

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I WON! I am SO not kid­ding. I WON!

I’m usu­ally not one to answer my cell­phone from Unknown Callers, but for some rea­son I answered this call. Then I talked very calmly, to a lovely woman named Stacey (because I’m sure she didn’t want to hear me squeal), hung up the phone and THEN squealed like an idiot.

Check out the offi­cial announce­ment here. This is my goofy appli­ca­tion. I feel so dumb writ­ing these things. Thank­fully the judges must have a sim­i­lar sense of humor.

They asked just a few things from me; To keep my pas­sion and con­tinue doing exactly what I do and to cross­post on a blog that they will host for me. In return, they will spon­sor a few of my crafts. And I’m hop­ing for a serger. Maybe my Etsy shop is closer than we all think?

I haven’t got much infor­ma­tion from them, but do you know who’ll I’ll tell first when they give me more info? Besides imme­di­ate fam­ily and the neigh­bors and the guy at the con­ve­nience store and every­one on Face­book and all my sec­ond cousins twice removed? You Guys! Yay!

And, in con­clu­sion, thank you — to all of you who voted, all of you who encour­age me when I hold up a project, wrin­kle my nose and ask “Does this look stu­pid?”, and to who­ever gave me my cre­ativ­ity since both of my par­ents claim it wasn’t them and it was my Great Aunt Kather­ine, whom I never met and thank you to Prilosec!

I’m ram­bling.

Now, really in con­clu­sion, Yay! Thank you!

Yeah, I seem to be in a blog­ging slump lately. It seems like every­thing I see that’s cool is not new or has been blogged a bazil­lion times before. Not much is going on in our lives, not much craft­ing because I’m too lazy to clean the kitchen table off, same ol’ same ol’, ya know?

I orig­i­nally started this blog with intents to post things that I had sewn or cooked, but I don’t do nearly enough of it to post often enough. I want to warn my read­ers that my Grandma yells at me if I don’t post enough. (Love you grandma! ) Now I’m think­ing that maybe I’ll just post the stuff that I think is cool?

What do you guys think? Should I stick with crafts and kids, or expand to include extra stuff?

And here’s a lit­tle eye candy for those of us who can’t go out­side with­out fac­ing 3^rd degree burns.

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That if you sub­scribe to my blog through an RSS Feeder that you can get a daily update on things I thought were cool enough to book­mark? For those of you who are a.) into crafts and sewing or b.) have strange quirky senses of humor it will totally knock your socks off! Check it out!

I’ve been tagged by Eliz­a­beth so here’s goes.

1. Link to your tag­ger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about your­self.
3. Tag 5 peo­ple at the end of your post and list their names, link­ing to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leav­ing a com­ment at their blog.

Five quick ones:
1.) When it comes to crafts and the com­puter, I have the oppo­site of a short atten­tion span. I lit­er­ally have to be dragged away some days.
2.) I hated hav­ing the same name as peo­ple grow­ing up, so I hope my kids don’t go through the same thing.
3.) I really want to raise Urban Chick­ens.
4.)  I’m extreeemely self-conscious. at all times. (I’ll just leave this one from E.)
5.) I worked at a fab­ric store while in High School and had almost no inter­est in sewing or craft­ing then.

Now it’s your turn Nicky, Sara, Juli­ette, DeAnna, and Amy.