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Blooms

I am feeling rather nonverbal these last few days and have been grasping for some blogging inspiration. So far nothing! So I thought I would share some photos.

 

 

  

 

Happy Thursday!

 

Fun in the sun

Last weekend it was hot hot hot! 92 degrees, in April! We spent a lot of time outside working on my flowerbeds and we finally got the veggie garden started. During the day on Sunday we saw a total of 5 Bald Eagles flying above us as we worked and played. The kids even got to see them. It was very exciting! Of course I did not have my camera with me at the time!

 

This is what we started with.

 

I have learned through out the years that this garden cover saves me a lot of time and energy! No weeds for me.

 

This is my secret ingredient can you guess what it is?

 

 

 

I got just about everything planted and even got my tomato cages up. Tempest and Arial watched the whole time.

 

I planted onion sets this year. I cant wait to see how they take off, or not.

 

My supervisor approved all of the work done, after a romp in the sprinkler.

 

With Little E.

Susan G. Komen Symposium, and Relay For Life

I had a very busy weekend this weekend and did not really have time to sit down at the computer and post. The weather here was in the 90s and we were outside getting things done and just enjoying the sunshine. I am celebrating the fact that I can be in the sun this year and taking every opportunity to do so. Sitting on my wrap around porch enjoying the kids and reading. I have been enjoying my morning cup of coffee outside, eating lunch outside. It has been so great!

Saturday I traveled outside of Baltimore to the Susan G Komen educational symposium. We had a group of six of us from my young survivor's support group who attended. It was a nice day of classes, lunch, friendship and survivors. The key note speaker was Kathy LaTour. A two time breast cancer survivor,a author of The Breast Cancer Companion, and editor at large for CURE magazine. Her story of courage empowered everyone in the room. It is not something that I will ever forget.

I was able to take classes on long time survivorship, Life after breast cancer and acupuncture and Identifying long term breast cancer issues. I learned a lot and even made a couple of friends along the way. It was a nice chance for our group to do some sister bonding too!

There are 18 days left until our local Relay for life.

Sponsor me in the American Cancer Society Relay for life HERE My goal is $1000 and so far I have raised $735.00 please help me reach my goal! Every penny counts towards making cancer something of the past. Click on my link to visit my fund raising page. Find out why we relay and why it is so important for ALL cancers.

What is relay? Find out Here.

Earth Day and my garden

It's earth day today, and I thought I would help celebrate by sharing my plans for my vegetable garden. I am planning to do a large veggie garden this year. Last years garden was a bit pitiful due to my chemo induced fatigue and the fact that I was unable to be in the sun at all.

 

I have some of my plants already. I am tending to them by putting them outside in the sun on warm days and keeping them inside at night so the frost does not get to them.

 

I have eggplant.

 

Banana peppers and sweet bell peppers.

 

I have four tomato plants, three regular size and one cherry tomato. The cherry tomatoes are my favorite. I love to go into the garden and just pluck them off the plant and pop them into my mouth. There is really nothing like it.

I also have some onion sets and I am picking up some potatoes, bush cucumber, yellow squash, zucchini, and lettuce sometime this week. I also try to plant a couple rows of cutting flowers every year If I have room. It is nice to be able to have fresh flowers in the house all summer.

I have a lot of fond memories of our HUGE garden we had growing up. We grew everything, and my Mom fed us all year long with her canned and frozen fruits and vegetables we harvested every year. We even had a very large rhubarb patch. We would be hustled out to the garden about once a week by my parents and were each given a row to weed. I seemed like it took forever when we were doing it but I am sure it was not really that long. We always ended up having rotten tomato battles afterwards. Picking the stinky rotten fruits off the vine and hurling them at the nearest person. Once and a while one of us would get one right in the middle of our back or on the side of the face. It was gross, but a lot of fun.

Growing up on a farm was great, Happy Earth Day!

What does a border collie do when there are no sheep to herd? Sadie does this every morning when Super Daddy takes Miss H to school. She only chases his car, or what ever vehicle he is driving. She could care less about me. She worships the ground he walks on.

Sadie's daily morning herding job. from Sarah S. on Vimeo.

In real life Sadie is afraid of sheep. So I guess she feels like this is her job. She does it like clock work every morning. She stops just short of the invisible electric fence, sometimes she sits there and waits for HIM to come back.