Double double

Queen B Survivor's egg was a double yolker! I have no idea why I put the other egg in the bowl. Musta still been half asleep! I sauteed some mushrooms and made me a cheese and mushroom omelette for breakfast. It was yummylicious.

hugs

Took me a little trip "down south" last week to see Jan and John. Jan gave me this pic of the kids while I was there. Couldn't wait to get it scrapped! This is loosely based on "Secret" from Magic and also in the Spring/Summer Idea Book. I used a K*I Memories kit that I was given when I spent eleventybillion dollars at Whim So Doodle when t!m was here. Also used one of the CTMH Kraft Borders that I stitched Juniper Waxy Flax thru. There's an ooolllddd Scenic Route border as well that I inked the edges with CTMH Cocoa ink. "Hug" is the CTMH Irresistables Ecelectic Alpha and I also used CTMH Pennant alpha. "Zone" is part of the K*I Memories kit. Buttons are a combo of CTMH and from my stash.

Eggs, Maters, Peas

Can you say OUCH! I think this egg that Queen Biotch Survivor laid must be the the same as a human having a 13 lb baby! It it huge! And I'm willing to bet that it's a double-yolker as well. You usually get double yolks out of girls when they first start laying. But occasionally, Ma Nature will throw in a zinger on an older hen. I want John to see it before I crack it, so stay tuned to see if it was a double yolker. And yes, the eggs are green. Queen B Survivor is an Americauna and they are the ones that lay the green shelled eggs. They taste the same as a "regular' white shelled egg. No, change that. Mine are BETTER than store-boughten eggs. Because we don't force the girls to lay and they get an all natural diet.

And these are some of the fruits of our labor from our Earth Boxes. One Heirloom tomato and three pear tomatoes. There are more of each coming, but once they start turning red, I have to pick them or the birds peck one hole in them and go to the next one. I might not care so much if they'd eat the whole dad-blamed thing, but no. Peck a hole and move on. I also got two. Yes, two sweet pea pods. That's one each for John and I!! There are loads of bloom on the plants, so maybe, just maybe I might get enough to cook a mess before it's all said and done. But I doubt it. We like 'em raw anyway! And my cuke plants are also loaded in bloom. Hoping to make some pickles if I get enough ripe at the same time.

Suite Rays!

John scored us tickets in the Pepsi Suite again for last Friday night's game against the Orioles. It was a special night on two accounts. Before the game, they had a special presentation of retiring the call signs of Officer Yaslowitz, Sgt. Baitinger and Officer Crawford; the three St Pete officers who lost their lives in the line of duty earlier this year. All three had served as Security for the Rays during games. After the presentation, Officer Yaslowitz's oldest son got to throw out the first pitch. Our young phenom pitcher, 21 year old Jeremy Hellickson pitched his first complete games in the majors, allowing only 4 Oriole hits and we WON!! David Price got the dubious honor of shoving the whipped cream pie in Jeremy's face as he was being interviewed by local TV stations!

The Old Man

He's got a big ol' scar from a fight when he was just a young-un. His nose is all wrinkly. His mouth is caved in from long-gone teeth. He's had a hard life!

'Maters

I was reading one of the local blogs last week and found out there was a U-Pick farm down Ruskin way, about an hour south of me, that had opened their tomato fields for picking. And I got a wild hair and decided to go pick some! I picked about 40 lbs in a bit over 30 minutes. Then after a quick stop at Publix to get the rest of the stuff I needed, I was back home. First thing I did was make me a tomato sammich on white bread with Duke's Mayo and salt and pepper. There is just nothing better in this world! And store boughten tomatoes just do not taste like ones you pick yourself! Then I made two ginormous containers of Sue's World Famous Salsa and then started boiling skins off maters to make homemade spagetti sauce. I ended up getting 6 quart Ziploc bags of sauce to put in the freezer out of the first batch. This batch I made with meatballs. Then the next day, I made another batch of sauce and got another 6 quart Ziploc bags of no-meatball sauce. I lay the bags flat on cookie sheets and once they are frozen, I stack 'em like cordwood in the freezer. So we'll have sauce for a good long while. I kept a few of the ripe tomatoes so we could have BLT's and sliced tomato with salt and pepper. I also picked a few green tomatoes for fried green tomatoes. Yum, yum, yum!

Oh yeah...one more thing!

I BOUGHT A VAGABOND!!! I've been wanting t!m's cutting machine since it came out a year and a half ago. He and Whim So Doodle teamed up and gave us a couldn't be beat price for the weekend. And John said I should just get it since I've wanted one forever. This thing is so awesome! Cuts paper, cardstock, GrungeBoard, chipboard, material. All at the touch of a button. No hand cranking involved. And just like buttah! Oh, and it's signed! t!m signed all of them that were bought over the weeked. So it now has a permament home on the end of my scrap table.

I'ma lucky girl, that's for sure!