The Beach

Busy.  I have become busy with nothing. Mainly because I am on vacation. For the last three days I have been constantly doing something.
And I love it.
Because all of the things I am doing are the things I wished to be doing. Things I daydreamed of doing while working a double shift, in the middle of winter, vacuuming the carpet.
This morning I got up early to take sunrise photos and look for seashells.  Yesterday I visited birds and rescued sea turtles. Tomorrow I kayak in a wildlife refuge!!
(I am squealing excited about tomorrow.  Bucket List time!)

Oh, and then I start a new job.....

Babies

We have a nursery!  I am so excited to have a swallow family living on our front porch. The parents had been nest building for a couple of weeks and I held my husband' s phone up there this morning to snap this photo.
Yay!

Garden update

I'm getting a lot of squash right now, but the cukes and watermelon have a ton of blossoms! I am thrilled and already planning on expanding.

It's a Date

Keeping up With the Neighbors

My garden, as you know, is doing well. So well, in fact that I was able to enjoy a straight neck squash and share one with Roberto, my neighbor.
That's the amazing thing about a garden, you get to share and share and share. A thing that I think we forget too easily. But I am determined that while my family won't go hungry, neither will my neighbors.

Mobile Garden

I have left Jerry Jones and have ditched my flip phone for a new smartphone.  I'm overwhelmed but really enjoying being able to blog on the fly. (And post garden photos! I hope.)
Texas has been experiencing a rainy season the last week or so and I am loving it! Everything is growing like mad and my rain barrel is overflowing. My garden heart is happy.

Squash

In visiting the garden this morning, I discovered a couple of baby squash!  I am so happy!  At least, for a moment.  Then I was a little dismayed to remember that I didn't have a whole ton of squash recipes!

 Squash soup, check. 

Ratatouille, yep.

Squash in butter, a given.

And there's where I end.  Now, given that I have four more of these plants, I could be in serious trouble in a few weeks.  So I am now combing Pinterest and the internet for things to do with squash.  Some of them are pretty cool. 

I'll post what works and gloss over what doesn't.  LOL