Did you miss me?

Let's play catch up! This week has gotten away from me, I can't believe it's already Thursday. I just couldn't get motivated to blog after Monday, the days as usual seemed to go too fast.

I'll share with you a couple of pictures I took last weekend. I think I mentioned that we did a little yard work before Easter. Jason and I wanted to try and clean out some of the veggie beds from last year. You'll remember what a disappointing time we had with the veg that never grew.... the 'crappy' soil etc! Jason was so disheartened that he just let it all go. The beds got over run with weeds and grass. Except one of them that I had tried to clear out at the end of last summer. That was the one we cleaned up this past weekend. We bought some manure to add to the soil in the hope it would help and we bought a couple of tomato plants and peppers and some herbs.

First I have to show you the parsley that is in one of the beds. This has been there all year and just keeps growing. Strange when nothing else seemed to grow in that stuff. Jason says it's because it's roots finally made it through the 'yuck' soil and in to our own good soil that is in the yard.

As you can see it seems to be thriving.

Above is a tomato plant I bought at the grocery store last week. It's still in it's own pot but it's sitting on top of a big planer I have on the patio. It's a patio tomato but right now I don't know whether to replant it (the soil in the planter is the yuck stuff too!) or just leave it in here for a while. It already has some little green tomatoes on it.

Here is the bed we cleaned out with the small tomato and pepper plants in it. There's also cilantro, flat leaf parsley, basil and mint planted in there.

And here's a larger view of the rest of the 'messy' beds. We have talked to a work crew in the neighborhood and they've agreed to come in and clear out the beds for us next weekend. Our neighbors were hiring them to do some planters in their back yard and they sent the guy over to talk to us cos I'd told them we needed stuff doing. It's hard for Jason to find the time (and of course he doesn't like doing it) when he's working two jobs.

So what else has been going on this week? Well it's week 2 on the beach for Jason. I'm happy to say last week he lost about 4lb, and that's with going to Chuy's midweek for lunch and having 2 or 3 beers on Easter Sunday, plus Easter dinner. This week is going ok, although he had Chuy's again yesterday, so I think it's gonna be a slow process :-/

I have some food pics to share with you but I'll leave that for tomorrow so this post doesn't get too long. I have to go out this morning for library duty. I just hope someone comes in to take out a book or I'll once again feel like I've wasted my time!

Hope you all have a great day.