Lot's going on right now. Boys starting school. I'm starting school. Getting back on a budget after reunion-family activity weeks and weekends.
But not before I get a laptop.
For some reason if you're going back to school you've got to have a laptop. Especially if you're taking the entire course online. Not that I'm complaining. It will be nice to unplug the computer during class time and lock myself in the bedroom. Fewer 'Mom!!!' pokes and prods that way.
This thing is also the reason I haven't posted in a bit. First I have to figure out how to upload pictures to this thing while the boys enjoy Dust or Splitter or building a Roman city in CivCity Rome (I can't tell you how embarrassing it is that my 9 year old is so much better than I am at this game..not that I'm a gamer but your people shouldn't starve to death because you can't figure out how to get the food out of the store houses) on the regular computer. I can't tell you how much they like that I now have my own to IM Daddy without interrupting their trade with the Phoenicians.
Made my first pesto this week. Learned how to make a roux so I could make creamy pesto sauce with some pasta. I'm not a very good cook. It's a big deal if something I learn is in French.
I ate my first tomato today. It was excellent cut up with olive oil, garlic salt, basil, oregano, red pepper on some toasted bread. Yum.
The bad news is that I have some kind of bacterial wilt on the deck tomatoes. What started as dryness and wilt from our 5 day vacation has turned into brown dots covering all of the Yellow Lemon tomato plant, the Clear Pink Early, and bits and pieces of the others. It doesn't look good and I think I spread it from the Lemon. Lots of hand washing going on here now. And dirty looks at the miniature corn and zucchini and squash which flower but refuse to give me anything.
So the garden is passing, even as I get a few tomatoes and beans. And posts may begin diverging a little early this year.
