I have gotten so behind on blogging that it’s embarrassing, but hopefully I can rekindle the blog flame.

This afternoon I was out weeding my garden (which is coming along so nicely, by the way) and I got to witness the interaction between a meddlesome cat and a mockingbird protecting its nest.  I can’t help but laugh every time I get to see this go down.  The cat is all cool and minding his cat business when suddenly there’s a mean ol’ mockingbird swooping down and screaming at the cat to stay away from those birdie babies!  Man, they can get vicious and man, is it funny to watch a cat run, jump and twist away from that angry bird.  Joke’s on the bird though, because this same cat took another mockingbird out of midair the other day.  I didn’t witness it, but my neighbor tells me that one second the bird is swooping and putting on its mean act and the next….the cat is having dinner.  Man, do I love nature.

I had the opportunity while I was in the garden to get to know my neighbors’ daughter, who is about my age.  Turns out we have a whole lot of things in common and it was so refreshing to find someone so close to home with the same outlook on so many things.  Who would have guessed a new friend was right here under my nose for the past 9 months.  We both breastfeed past a year, have co-slept with our babies, cloth diapered our babies, wear our babies….it goes on and on.  As rarely as I get out and meet people, it was just really fun to find a friend right next door.

We continued our outdoor day with cooking out.  Shayne and I are one mean burger-makin’ team.  Tonight’s burgers were possibly some of the best I’ve ever tasted!  Yay us!

I’m sad that the truly enjoyable weather is almost gone.  We’re supposed to hit 100 degrees on Monday and stay in mid to upper 90s the rest of the week.  Welcome, summer.  I look forward to you baking my grass dry as a bone, killing my garden and making my car seats capable of 3rd degree burns!

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Thanks to my gnomes, I was finally able to get my seeds in the ground today. It’s really a late start for a garden here in North Texas, but I chose the veggies that were more likely to survive my tardiness. Before too long, we’ll have squash, green beans, black-eyed peas, cucumbers, okra and peppers. Oh yeah…tomatoes, too. Small tomatoes–grape ones and yellow pear ones.

I’m looking sooo forward to my ooey gooey cheesey squash, fried okra, stuffed peppers and fresh, crisp beans. Oh, MAN, am I ready! There is just nothing quite like fresh garden veggies! Let’s just hope I’m able to keep them all alive and producing in this heat!

Oh…quick gnome update. I asked my neighbor if maybe the gnomes would like dinner as a thank you for tilling my garden. He said that they happen to LOVE my buffalo chicken strips, so it looks like I’ll be making lots of those tomorrow night!

On another note, I’m excited another auction that Diane from Pampered Bunz and I are doing this week. It’s a Mickey Mouse outfit this time and I’m going to have a really hard time parting with it! Here’s a little preview of my contribution to the set (Elliott thoroughly enjoyed modeling it for me!)…

Another random thought…my town is having a cajun festival this weekend and I’m kind of excited about that! That in itself is funny, because Shayne and I have really become pretty reclusive lately and the chances of us actually going and facing the crowd are pretty slim. Maybe I’ll just buy a box of Zatarain’s and call it a day.

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