Ten on Tuesdays

1. Growing up, I never considered myself to be that great of a gardener. This year, I decided to try planting a small vegetable garden. So far, it has been less than fruitful. I started out by planting strawberries, watermelon, tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumber. I also did a seed starting kit for a salsa garden, which included tomatoes, parsley, cilantro, onion, jalapeno peppers, and cayenne peppers. My watermelon plant withered and died during the time when we were getting all the rain. My dog has eaten my strawberries and almost all of the seeds I planted from my salsa garden starting kit have failed to sprout. Hopefully I will at least be able to get a few tomatoes!
2. Yesterday morning when I got out of bed, I noticed that Faline was sniffing something on the carpet. My first thought was that maybe she had an accident, but as I got closer, I realized it was something else. Turns out, Faline caught a bird! She was apparently so proud of her kill that she had to bring it in to show off. She wasn’t very happy when Mike threw it out.
3. On Sunday, Mike and I headed up the canyon to have some family pictures done. From what I have seen so far, they turned out really cute. I will post some as soon as I get the disc.
4. We decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to cell phones with data plans. I am pretty excited to have new features and freedom with my new phone. I think that we ended up getting the Samsung Reality, but I am not positive.
5. Ideeli has turned into one of my favorite places to shop online. Most recently, I was able to get this cute Rebecca Beeson shirt – it retailed for around $55 or so, but Ideeli was selling it for $18. After another discount that I had, I only paid $2 plus shipping!



6. It looks like the voles have moved back into our yard. We were so excited when it looked like they had either moved away or died. Then last week when we were working in the yard, I saw something run across the flower bed and their tunnels have reappeared in our grass. We put out some poison for them, plus Faline has been in the backyard more often lately, so hopefully we can get rid of them for good this time!
7. I have heard a lot about this website called Bountiful Baskets. Basically, you pay a fee each week that you want to participate, and then you get a huge basket full of fresh fruits and vegetables. They will occasionally have other stuff to, such as fresh salsa or bread. I want to try this out sometime, but I know that Mike and I won’t be able to eat all of the produce without it going bad. Would anyone want to try splitting a basket with us sometime?
8. I feel like I would be remiss if I didn’t post something about Eclipse. I went to see Eclipse last week, and I will say that it is better than the previous two movies. I still think that the acting isn’t the greatest, but that is okay. Something I didn’t realize is that Stephanie Meyer’s latest book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, is actually about one of the newborn vampires in Eclipse. I found out last week that you could read the book online for free. Reading it kind of put a few things about the vampire army and a few comments from the movie in perspective for me. Unfortunately, the offer to read the book online for free ended yesterday.
9. Thank you to the Jaques for our year supply of Malt-o-meal! We are so excited!
10. When we went 4-wheeling on Saturday, we found this great little campground off Skyline Drive. It has running water and toilets, which is a bonus in my opinion. Now, we just need to plan a weekend to go!