The Great Tomato Plants and "Stuff"

It's Saturday and a beautiful day, probably around 60-65 today. A great day for gardening.

I planted a ton of tomatoes today--I had six tomato plants of the large variety and two cherry tomatoes already in the ground and I got ton of home grown tomato plants from our good friends the Cerundolo's which I finally got into the ground today--be on the lookout for the great tomato explosion!! We are going to have a ton!! The Cerundolo's also gave me Basil, Arugula (I know that I spelled this wrong!) and something else--I’m not sure what it is--I'll have to wait and see what come of it.

The Basil is doing great--the Arugula (sp) didn't survive, and the unidentified plant is going great. I think that I waited to long to plant everything and that is why I lost it.

Two years ago I tried my hand at canning my tomatoes for gravy. My good friend Michael C told me just what I had to do. I had a few jars explode on me down in the basement and I wasn't sure what I did wrong. Well, Mama Dolo (Michael C's mother) told me the trick! You need to boil a medium potato in the pot when you are boiling the jars of tomatoes. When the potatoes are done so are the tomatoes. Apparently I undercooked them and that is why they exploded. I'll be ready this year.

I've been thinking about our girl a lot today. Am I still going to be able to spend an entire day in the garden when she comes home--probably not. I need to get into the routine of being out in the veggie garden so that it becomes second nature and we will have a lot of fresh veggies for Daddy and Daughter. I don't eat them--I should but I don't. I'm sure that Michael will be thrilled--he doesn't eat enough veggies since we got married--I just don't think to make them and if I do think about it I just don't know how to prepare them so that they are not the same old boring veggies. I need to work on this--and yes--Michael will be thrilled with that too.

I'm relaxing now and just doing "stuff" around the house--boy is this all going to change when she comes home.

I've been reading a lot of stories of families who are getting their notice to travel to China to get their children--it's all very bitter sweet. On the one hand you are very happy for the families and excited for the children to have a loving family and then on the other hand you realize that we still have a minimum for one possibly two years of a wait before we can share this exciting news with the world.

I guess that is why they call it the adoption rollercoaster.

Well it's time to go--we are off to church to say a little prayer.