JEEPING

 A few years ago, some friends of ours bought a Jeep.  They took it to Moab and had a great time and talked us into going with them the next time and renting a Jeep.  We got bit by the bug and started searching for one that we could afford and waited for a few years for the prices to drop... they didn't.  One day I was over at the salvage yard with my son and we saw this

 We bought it and decided to save even more Money by having Paul do the work (except for the paint).  it turned out amazing!!!!

 The NIGHT before we left for Moab we found some rock rails on KSL.com and installed them right before we got on the road for our vacation.

 Jeeping is more fun with the top and doors off

 Going down "the wall"

Designing Things in Photoshop

so I came up with a design for a new product for my parents company and this is what I came up with.... and then I turned it into a GIF.

How My garden does grow!

 Early this spring I was determined to have a garden.  A few trips to the local IFA and rummaging around my storage shed and I was ready to go.  I started all my seeds this year except for onions and potatoes.  I used IFA's garden box mix along with Azomite for starting the seeds.  Someday I may get ambitious ang get a real greenhouse, but the clear tote idea came from Pinterest.  They worked really well.  I put a thermometer in one of them so I would know if I needed to open the lide more or less to regulate the temperature.  There were many cool spring days when this came in handy.

the peppers needed a constant temp of 85° -proofing feature on oven worked

Starting seeds

Brought things out during the day on nice spring days

transplanted to Solo cups with holes drilled in the bottom

kept things inside on cool spring days

Mid-summer cantaloupe patch

This mornings harvest

Cukes climbing up a wire rack

a few varieties of tomatoes

We have had some ripe tomatoes, but they are so delicious they don't last long!

Pole beans

Green, Anaheim, and Jalapeno peppers

Watermelons are doing well in the heat wave

Honeydew peeking out

Venting Frusterations

What to do with the electrical panel

I have a problem in my family room.  It is big and ugly and gray.  We are forced to look at it everyday because it is positioned just to the left of the entertainment center.  What is a girl to do?  Well I thought about it for a while and came up with this cute retro sign.  Now everyone is happy.

Hope for the Hopeless

This is a quote from the BBC series "Cranford" that I just had to go back and find.  Two women were talking about life and dealing with it's struggles and how it was almost easier to bear the burdens of sickness, loss and disappointment.  Women are good at dealing with these things.  We help each other, comfort and lift in times of need, but there are times that it is harder to deal with hope.  The possibility of unfulfilled expectations for life.  How to you deal with the melancholy of reality?