5-6-13 Monday
❧ heard from a good friend
❧ sat in the middle of the truck seat
❧ a nice drive in the country to move furniture
❧ dinner with family
❧ a walk down to the peaceful creek
❧ big cypress trees
5-5-13 Sunday
❧ painting our nails
❧ going over to my sister’s place for family time
❧ silly, silly ¡Three Amigos! absurdity
❧ delicious homemade taco dinner
❧ the el guapo incident, hahahaha!
❧ laughing, lots of laughing
5-4-13 Saturday
❧ little girl smiles
❧ walked the borrowed dog 2.3 miles
❧ homemade soup
❧ just being in love 2 weeks ago
because it’s so very hard to lose our beloved pets. (((hugs))) 2 weeks ago
Now that would be a very cool project! How I’d love to have that dress and with butterfly WINGS! You’ve got such great vision, Tikini :) 2 weeks ago
we do live in the same town!! We should make that happen once the semester ends :) 2 weeks ago
❧ waking up happy
❧ an excellent meeting (weird, eh?)
❧ collard greens (and more collard greens)
❧ a neat restaurant with amazing turnips, beets, and Brussels sprouts
❧ fancy little drinks
❧ hanging out with my sister and our friend
❧ falling asleep happy 2 weeks ago
❧ woke up and did yoga
❧ went for a walk in the neighborhood (40 min)
❧ nice birds in the yard
❧ visited family in the hospital
❧ fella came home a day early :) 2 weeks ago
Wow TG, that looks incredibly painful :( I agree with the others, listen to the docs and stay off of it as long as possible while your body repairs. Sending healing energy your way! 2 weeks ago
I had no idea about your butterfly phobia!! I also admit, as Nic commented, I thought it was a party for fancy dresses, not a fancy dress/costume party. Instead, I will go as Animal from the Muppets. :) 3 weeks ago
❧ had more afternoon energy than usual
❧ plotted May bootcamp, looking forward to this month :)
❧ a quiet evening making gluten free veggie pizza
❧ warm night for sitting on the porch drinking sleepytime tea
❧ long-distance telephones
❧ kitty snuggles
❧ feeling home 3 weeks ago
photo of my aunt’s orchid tree in bloom
I admire and must adopt what Solasea said: “Do the things I have to so I can do the things I want to.” Time to get through a few growing pains so I can blossom. I also love Bermudamohawk’s tactic of “daily growth, monthly blooms.”
A few pains…
✶ finish this semester’s grading
✶ make summer lab schedules
✶ deep clean lab
✶ clean and pack my house to move
✶ create/organize the summer class
Daily growing to nurture…
✷ stretch/yoga each morning
✷ eat slowly, mindfully, healthily
✷ drink more water
✷ walk, anywhere, at least 20 minutes
✷ meditate, pray
✷ get more sleep by going to bed earlier
Month-long blooms…
✹ plant gardens
✹ get the house ready
✹ post some bird checklist entries
✹ plan a kayak or SUP afternoon
✹ day hike at least once each at Balcones and McKinney
✹ time with friends and family
✹ time smiling and relaxing 3 weeks ago
and signed. I have had my head in the sand for a while so thank you for bringing this pipeline to my attention. 3 weeks ago
❧ woke up smiling
❧ felt much less anxious, post-coffee-ban
❧ ladder-backed woodpecker in the backyard
❧ nice Cuban lunch with mom and sister
❧ hugs
❧ grilled veggies in dear friend’s backyard
❧ spent time dreaming up garden ideas
❧ lovely weather
❧ kitty snuggles 3 weeks ago
❧ sister lunch
❧ very meaningful connection with my father’s energy during acupuncture
❧ that look of delighted surprise on a little girl’s face
❧ accidental treasure hunt in the backyard
❧ haiku on the roof
❧ watching birds while drinking coffee on the porch
❧ awesome family time and sisters home for mom’s 70th birthday
❧ hanging out with my cool aunt, too
❧ laughing
❧ frolicking in fur coats in the thrift store with brother-in-law
❧ lots of rain
❧ lots of birds! including a few new ones like a young scarlet tanager who hopped in the treetops at mom’s house all afternoon :)
❧ inventing a recipe
❧ snuggles from my fella and my kitty
❧ love, and being surrounded by it 3 weeks ago
Thought of you as I must have seen dozens perched on wires during my drive to and from mom’s house last weekend. You were in the wrong part of Texas, a month early! 3 weeks ago
This was a total experiment, and it worked! Yum! No fake cheese needed for a broccoli rice casserole :)
2 big stalks broccoli
1 big red bell pepper and a couple of snack-sized orange ones
1 onion
handful of baby carrots
oil for stir fry
a few spoonfuls of green thai curry paste (I used this)
1 c uncooked brown rice = 3 c cooked
1 can coconut milk, full fat of course
Cooked rice. Chopped and stir fried veggies. Added curry paste and coconut milk to veggies. Threw in cooked rice and stirred it all around. Dumped into casserole pan and cooked 30 min at 350F. Easy peasy and yummy :) 3 weeks ago
That sounds lovely! Will you be wearing the bunny suit? I think I’d like to wear this butterfly dress. I don’t own any such thing—the closest I have to dress up party outfits are two ruffly layered dresses from the thrift store that get accessorized for 80s singalongs :) 3 weeks ago
Thank you for the laugh! :D 4 weeks ago
Crossing fingers and toes and eyes and buns for you that it all goes well in the next week, and you are in your new home soon! And really, how super cool that the scrap of paper was hiding there on the fridge the whole time. :) 4 weeks ago
but we will probably not plant all of those things! I’ve got to find out how deep the dirt needs to be for those root veggies (beets and sweet potatoes).
I’m pretty confident that we can plant beans, chard, okra, and peppers. Hopefully if I start them from plants instead of seeds, I can get some tomatoes going, too! 4 weeks ago
I hadn’t even considered putting up gopher wire. Another thing I will need to look into! Thank you so much! 4 weeks ago
Thanks for the tips! I looked up the planting calendar for our county. We are only going to get started by mid-May. They recommend starting from seed:
May 1-15
Lima Beans
Snap Beans
Beets
Chard
Okra
Black-eye Peas
Pepper Plants
New Zealand Spinach
Sweet Potatoes
May 15-31
Lima Beans
Beets
Okra
Black-eye Peas
Pepper Plants
Sweet Potatoes
So if you have tips on how any of those work in containers, I’d love to hear them! I also plan to contact the extension office for their advice. 4 weeks ago
for this one! For making progress, insisting on being treated well, and being good to yourself—Hooray! 4 weeks ago
I’ve been thinking of doing a raised bed, and my sister texted me the above photo. I’ve got a friend who can get free, discarded pallets from his workplace, and my significant other already has garden cloth. This doesn’t have to last forever; eventually I’d like to build the self-watering kind of raised beds.
Has anyone tried this? I’d love your thoughts and tips. I am wondering if it’s deep enough, or if there are other problems I haven’t anticipated. Thanks!! 4 weeks ago
I’m so far behind at life in general, my happy-writing routine is slumping along. I did have one of the best weekends I’ve had in many months though :)
Wonderful happies in the past week!
❧ falling gloriously off the no-coffee wagon :D
❧ thinking about living together
❧ making plans for a garden
❧ being in town for church this week
❧ hanging four birdfeeders in my fella’s backyard
❧ that really tall metal slide with his sweet girl
❧ his dad being moved to a hospital in this city
❧ spending a day with my older sister
❧ reading our old kid books with a six year old
❧ getting a lot clean in the yard and house
❧ lots of phone calls with my little sister
❧ finding out I will get to teach this fall, too, at the campus nearest my home
❧ having nice, cooperative coworkers
❧ feeling like most everything is going as it should be 4 weeks ago
