March 31st

Yay!

It's Tater Day!

My celebration plans are to

bake a couple for dinner.

Who doesn't like a baked potato?

There's so much you can do with potatoes.

Fry them, bake them, mash them, put them 

into salads, stuff them, roast them....

Before I sound like Bubba Gump,

you get the idea.

And,

there's more than 200 varieties 

grown in the US,

with russet being the most popular.

So, 

tonight, celebrate accordingly!

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We recently bought a bag of 

avocados from Costco.

The whole family loves avocados,

so getting a bag of 6 isn't too much.

But,

you have to wait a week for

them to ripen

and then you have to consume them

in a 12 hour window!

Why is that the case?

The time for tasty perfection

to yucky brown slime

is very small.

This got me to thinking....

1) Who first ate one? Was there a debate

about the color or the "alligator like"

skin, or the texture??

2) This is kind of a design flaw

with the ginormous seed.

God should have gone back to the

drawing board here.

The mango is another example.

Surely, if we can put men on the moon,

we can invent a seedless or smaller seeded

avocado and a mango!

Just sayin'.....

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My Amaryllis

Sunflowers

One of the bigger sunflowers.

The petals have died off so

we leave it on the stalk so the birds

can eat the seeds.

Another large head with seeds

eaten off. 

Stargazer lilies

Paperwhite lilies and gladiolas

Gardenia bulbs

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The Blueberry bushes are starting 

to flower.

My English Lavender.

I thought it had died,

but it looks like it is rallying.

Potatoes

Tomato

Flowers on several of our tomato bushes.

Herb garden Angel

Basil, French Lavender, Rosemary, Thyme

Stevia and Mint.

Onions

And the girls...

Hazel

Nugget

Lucy

Ethel

Minew

Yesterday the CEO brought the

chicken girls a treat,

crickets!!

They loved them!

Minew, however, left the area.

No crickets for her.

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So,

I couldn't find my keys.

I looked for over an hour.

I retraced all my steps and still nothing.

I prayed to my Mom's buddy,

St Anthony,

as well as any Pagan gods

of lost implements.

Figured I'd cover all my bases.

Then,

I put my hand into the pocket of my pants...

Yep!

There they were.

Now, 

I don't know if it was

Divine intervention or,

I've conjured a demon,

but I've got the keys!!

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Love y'all!

Thanks for reading.

You make me happy!

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