today.

finally, we have compost.

for some unknown blasted reason our compost bin has been mostly a pain in the arse. it smells something fierce & has all the bugs that might come with a decomposing body...no matter how much brown stuff we added, the green stuff always took over. but finally, after throwing away our green stuff for 6 weeks now & putting more & more & more brown stuff, well, finally we have *black* stuff. gardening gold! & wes is distributing it as i type. first, he put it on his beloved hops, which i understood b/c i stood at the porch & yelled out HEY PUT SOME ON THE ASPARAGUS ALSO! b/c they are my beloveds. plus wes raked our yard for the first time & this is the result from half of the back yard (notice the mound of leaves & straw in the back, in front of the fence. that's one of our veggie gardens). somehow we are going to mulch it up & to be laid over the garden for the winter, then tilled under in spring. ideas? i said lawn mower, but wes kinda looked at me funny so maybe lawn mower & straw don't go together well?

& this is what happens when you shop at costco for weekly groceries, as we did this week (we had to get other stuff there anyway). so now we have 5 pounds of carrots, 2 whole chickens, 4 bunches of celery & 20 pounds of potatoes. what the hell are we going to do with all this stuff? my answer: make soup like mad!
to the left is a chicken stock complete with a chicken (sans gizzards, yuck) that will be picked apart & the chicken frozen for later use & the stock canned by wesley alan. to the right is a sausage lentil soup, which is dinner tonight & lunch for me all week.

what else is in the works for us today? well, 10 days worth of laundry, mowing the yard (wes), sewing holes in addy's pants, hopefully making biscotti (teething 'biscuits' for amelia), & then writing down *all* my meds i've taken in the past year for my appointment tomorrow (that will take the longest, lol) & then wes got a little crazy & rented a movie from those red boxes (they're in grocery stores here). he rented pink panther 2 for $1. i really thought pink panther 1 was funny, so hopefully i will be sipping on hot chocolate, dipping biscotti tonight while watching pink panther 2. which means i need to get my butt in baking gear...

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BUT has anyone watched 'modern family' on abc? well, i watched one of the shows online the other day, the friday from hell, & it cracked me up...tears running down my face sort of crack up. finally, a new show that isn't about a hospital or police/government. & it's funny.