I have never posted video before, and most of mine have moven to CD by now, but just for the sake of posting one to see if I can I wanted to share this one with you all. This was back when we went to the Ga Aquarium for that continuing Ed course on........well anyway I was trying to capture the serene beauty of the tropical fish exhibit and instead I captured the humor and sense of imagination that comes to kids when you pull out a recording device!!! And Action!

Until next time, M

As you all know we planted our first garden this year, and I have put up pics of what a good yield we have been getting. I have freezer full of yellow squash, zuchinni, bell and ancho peppers, jalapeno peppers....and we have mint and basil like crazy, even the cantaloupes and watermelons are showing some promise.

The tomatoes however are a different story! I have grown tomatoes in pots before and have been pretty successful, and you may know that tomatoes in my opinion are the absolute perfect food and I love them!! So we planted about thirty tomato plants, of different varieties and were so excited as the grew tall and strong and started to get loaded up with hard green tomatoes.

Problem is, once they start to go from green to yellow to orange, and sometimes before, they get black on the bottom and rot before they turn red. We have yet to be able to eat even one and I am sooo dissapointed. I feel like we are doing everything right, we did do a lot of research and have had lots of help from my Pawpaw who plants a successful garden every year.....and yet they just wont cooperate.

They are in direct sun, we water about every other day unless it rains, in the evening after the sun goes down. We fertilized with horse manure and we staked them up so that the fruit wont be on the ground.....and yet they look terrible once they start to change.

Someone suggested coffee grounds and someone suggested epsom salt, to be sprinkled around the bottom of each plant....which by the way look amazing, it is the actual tomotoes that look awful. We have not tried the epsom salt, cuz I was wary of that....but I did dump some coffee grounds on one of the plants to see how it will do. At this point we dont have anything to lose, but if anyone out there has any suggestions PLEASE let me know. I should have taken a pic of the tomato itself but I was sooo pissed off that I ripped it off the vine and chucked it over the fence. Mr. Ed just looked at me like I was nuts, but he ate the tomato just the same.

Please help, and if u cant then rec this so that someone else can!!!Until next time, M

Maverick is feeling some better and is about one day away from finishing his meds, so we loaded up the truck

 and headed out to my Mom and stepDad's house to fish in their pond in the cool evening after if rained. We were too late to buy any real bait anyplace so we stopped at a convenience store for a cheap pack of hot dogs (wieners). We had a couple stowaways.........

 (Pepper Anne and Lexie.....and Lexie is ready for a home now if anyone is interested!), and really did more untangling lines and baiting hooks than we did actually fishing...but in the end it was worth it.

We had a great time, here are a few that Maya and I caught,

 and Adam caught a big bass but we missed the photo op, sorry.  We threw them all back, it was all in good fun anyway and came back the next day to actually eat some big catfish that my siblings had caught at Lake Weiss last weekend.