Gardening

I definitely did not inherit my Grandmother Loper's (Mom's mom) green thumb as can be seen by the lack of plants in my house, and the lack of any landscaping outside - but I've thought about growing some tomatoes this year.  Nothing beats eating a fresh picked home-grown tomato as you stand over your kitchen sink, pouring salt on it - mmmmmmmm.

Mike always had dreams of being a great gardener but it was never meant to be because of the soil in our backyard - but he could grow tomato plants.  The best tomatoes we ever had was from the plant that Butler would pee on whenever he'd go outside - before the plant started to bud.  Then there was the year that Mike planted four tomato plants - remember there were only two humans living in the house and one plant would have been enough.  But no - four plants and Mike Miracle Growed the poop out of them.  People at work got tired of both of us bringing in tomatoes everyday for people to take home that year.  They were the biggest tomato plants I had ever seen.  Mike told me one time that he didn't even get to the tomatoes on the plant in the corner because one time he was out picking tomatoes and something was big enough "back in there" to really move the plant and Mike didn't want to find out what it was - so he only picked tomatoes from the two front plants from then on.

So maybe I'll try one plant in a pot on the back porch and see how it does.  Maybe I'll be daring and do two plants - one for cherry tomatoes!

My main thought is - when do garter snakes start having their babies?????  I'm really hoping the momma snake I chased out of my back porch last summer has moved on to another yard.  The day I ran into three baby garter snakes, in three different places in the yard while mowing just about did me in.  But like I told God, as long as He gave me warning to see the little snakes so I could chase them out of the way of the mower I was ok with that.  I didn't want to accidently run over one - blick.  Dad thinks I should be able to do that without any problems - blick, shudder, blick, shudder, blick, shudder.

While running errands I stopped at the Family Christian bookstore and picked up these books:

• Live To Make A Difference ~ Max Lucado
• Finding Your Way Through Loneliness ~ Elisabeth Elliot
• You Can Be Everything God Wants You To Be ~ Max Lucado (Perfect gift for the graduate :)
• Becoming A Woman Who Listens To God ~ Sharon Jaynes

And I bought TobyMac's latest CD "Tonight".  I chuckled because we talked in our small group the other week about how we liked the old hymns - which I love and we don't sing that often - and then I buy this CD which I'm not sure yet that I love but I really do like some of his songs.  Of course I had to crank the stereo in the car when playing the CD.