Time Travel: Karen's Wedding!

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them. Sorry!

My cousin got married! Mom and Dad flew in from California, and Jer and I drove up and met them at the airport. It was great to see so much family again!

Doesn't dad look great? Jer fixed him up, and mom and I were pleasantly surprised! He was wearing a belt, too!

We all clean up well! Mom and I got our hair done today. I had mine cut, which of course means it won't look this good again until the next time I get it cut. Ah well.

Time Travel: Sun Flowers

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them. Sorry!

I planted so many sun flower seeds, and only two plants really grew, but boy did they! I also harvested the seeds from the larger blossom, so I should have more next year!

Time Travel: Final Garden Spoils

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them. Sorry!

Today, I pulled all of the carrots out of the garden. I had no idea I had so many growing! I know they look small, but a friend had convinced me the soil around here wasn't great for carrots, so I expected them to be even smaller!

I juiced up the carrots from my garden, and some store bought veggies to juice up.

These are store bought carrots because I wasn't sure what my yield would be. 

This little fellow is the most knarled sad looking carrot. I didn

Time Travel: Garden Overgrown

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them. Sorry!

This summer, I managed to keep my garden watered, but not much else. The lettuce quickly took over, and made my little plot look like a wild weed patch.

I spent some time and pulled it all up. It would have been nice to get more salads out of it (though we certainly ate plenty of salads), but once it flowers, it starts to taste bitter.