The Beginning

It is the start of a new beginning - is that contradictory? It's exciting to start a new phase in life. The planning hasn't quite taken place yet, but it has started. Lots of things to research and look through and choose.

I'm looking forward to it all.

Something that is needed...

Patience. It's something that is needed everywhere you go, but sometimes can be lacking... It's needed when you buy something online, when you help someone who doesn't know as much as you, when you make something, when you wait for someone slow, when you are cooking something new, when you listen to someone say something you don't want to agree with, when you are fixing something, when you want to buy something, when you need someone to help you...the list goes on and on...

Happy SysAdmin Day!

Today is SysAdmin Day! How fun...here's an interesting website that explains what a systems administrator is: http://www.sysadminday.com/whatsysadmin.html

Busy Bee

Lots of things happening this month...between work, marvin, events...there's definitely no dull moment. Our tomato and squash plants have been doing well and got lots of pictures.



They are all delicious and useful :-)




I'm hoping things will wind down a bit, but there's still plenty more things to plan, organize, and figure out. Hopefully all goes well. Now here's a picture of the pup now on his first trip...didn't go as well as I'd thought, but we all had fun. It'll be a while before we take him on a long car trip again, but hopefully this was not his last.

Softball

Today we start softball again. It was nice to be outside and run. It got warm pretty fast and by the end...I was ready to go back into the icy air conditioned office. I can't believe I just wrote that.

Update: Marvin is doing well...except he continues to have selective hearing when outside. He is growing rapidly. I'll post up some pics later on.

Summer

Today is the first day that S doesn't have school or camp...basically the summer has officially started. I wish I didn't have to go to work today and have a couple of months off in the summer too! I'll have to see when would be some good days to take off of work this month and next :-)

Growing large zucchini and Marvin

Our squash plant has finally started producing squash. There are supposedly 3 different kinds...zucchini, yellow squash, and a white zucchini...we picked a few the other day and one had grown to be quite large...I've posted a picture of the bush and of the squash we picked. They are actually a bit prickly to the touch...never knew that.

Other news...trying to train Marvin to walk nicely on a leash, he's learned to sit and kind of knows what down means. We've also been working on fetching and retrieving...hopefully we can get him to know how to do that outside...we shall see.