A Green Thumb

I do not have a green thumb. Really. I have never really been that interested in plants. I love receiving flowers and going to botanical gardens but I just haven't reached the point in my life where I want to have a garden that I take care of.

When I was young, my family always had a garden and many hours were spent out in the garden but I just don't really like being out in the dirt so much. I blame it on being very white with a tendency to burn and having allergies.

Luckily, I am married to a guy who likes to plant and cultivate. He is more than willing to plant, fertilize and water the plants. The past several years he has even lovingly cared for tomato plants (my favorite) when he can't stand the taste. That is real love.

On Saturday, we caught the spring bug. We made our way down to our local nursery (I like being able to shop locally) and filled a basket with flowers, peppers, tomatoes and lemon cucumbers. Now we just have to wait for it to warm up enough to plant them outside in our pot garden on the back porch. This means summer is on it's way!

I said I would never do it.

My goodness. What a crazy life lately. I finally got my conference finished last week and decided to take Friday off. I really needed a break. My friend Tami and her sisters had planned a girls weekend and I was able to tag along for the day. I couldn't say no when they told me they were going to the Park City Outlet Stores.

I marathon shopped. Something I really enjoy doing. Heber doesn't understand how women can shop for 6 or 8 hours at a time. I call it a vacation day.

But I did something I said I would never do. I bought Crocs. I know, I know they are the greatest of fashion faux pas but look at the picture before you judge. They were $10 folks and they're teal. How could I say no?


Tami, thank you for such a great time!

Conferences and Chacos

I ate outside in the sunshine today. The building where I work has picnic tables outside. Being Natural Resources, they are always filled with "granola people". Well today I was one of them. It made me want to pull out my chacos.

It's been pretty crazy at work lately. It's pretty much the reason I haven't posted much. I hate it when my job takes over my life. The conference is on Tuesday though and I am home free, except for all of my final projects for my graduate work. Sigh. This was why it was so nice to take a minute.

I've been thinking about that a lot lately, taking time out. I realize how important it is to take time to think about the world, about who I want to be and about nothing at all (is for fun). I went out and bought a new notebook this week. I've decided to start writing again. I hope to take more time to be free - oh, and to survive the end of the semester. I can wish, right?

Easter

Spring is finally coming and I'm really enjoying the warm weather. I have finally given up wearing scarves (something I actually really like about winter) and have moved on to lighter jackets.


Easter has come and gone but we were happy to spend it with all of my immediate family. My sister's family was visiting from Oregon so the whole family was in town. We hunted easter eggs, colored eggs and listened to conference and loved spending time with our niece and nephews.


A freak snowstorm days before Easter put our plans for the annual Easter party in Ophir out the window (no one wants to hunt eggs in a foot or two of snow). I was sad to miss this tradition. I have lots of fond memories in up the canyon at the old orange cabin, eating dutch oven.

Heber has been incredibly busy with school and work. I haven't really seen him not working in weeks, except when he's eating or sleeping. I was able to pull him away somewhat for the Easter festivities. The bunny made a visit to our house, in spite of all the business, and brought a beautiful "basket" for me. How in the world the bunny had time, I'll never know.


I hope it was a wonderful Easter for all of you.

Hardware Hardships

I went to the hardware store yesterday. Yes, me, all by myself. I went in search of a pin for one of our shelves. For the first time in my life, I went in and found what I was looking for without asking one of the employees. I was pretty proud.

You have to mark these little accomplishments.

Yay for me.

Tired.

I had a flat tire tonight. I was checking books out at the library and came out to see it in all it's flat glory. Heber was around and could come help me. Luckily it didn't happen last week when he was out of town on business.

We have a couple of friends that always seem to be there for us even when they are out of town. They allowed us to break into their shed to get some necessary tools to get the tires off.

While working on the car, a random stranger with two dogs poking up out the window stopped to see if we needed anything and stuck around to shine a light on the whole operation.

Thank you random stranger and your little dogs too.