Cooler Weather = Less Bugs?

14 Nov 2010

We are all SO SICK!!! Teaching school combined with kids at day care equals really sick Coopers. Holly and Derek both barfed in the car this week. Jared barfed in the bathroom who even knows how many times. EVERYONE has diarrhea. Holly and Jared had really high fevers last weekend Tyler is still on his antibiotic for an ear infection. I am coughing out a lung every 30-40 minutes and in Texas it's still allergy season. We are all in pretty good spirits but our family is like Typhoid Mary (less the typhoid) of course.

Soooo......we didn't go to church again today. We did go for 2 hours last week though and we remembered to fast and I bore my testimony so we're not totally inactive.

It was a little cloudy today before lunch so Tyler and I went out to plant the new lettuce, cabbage and broccoli plants that I bought yesterday as well as some old potatoes that I found in the fridge. I don't know if you can just take potatoes out of the fridge and put them in the ground, but that's what I did so we'll see. The days are cooler now, highs in the 70's so I hope that the bugs have died down a little and I will actually get some good vegetables. I planted some green beans in August that did really well. I got a couple of pounds of beans out of a 4 x 4 foot box.

Here are my lettuce and broccoli plants. The big tomato plant actually planted itself there. One of the cherry tomatos fell off a plant that I had there during the summer and sprouted. Then it survived the attack of the spider mites and virus toting leaf hoppers (without any help from me) and is growing like crazy. We are going to have some super yummy salads in a month if everything goes well. Which I'm sure it won't...

This is my herb garden. The giant plants are basil and some sort of flowering thing that takes 265 days to bloom. It's getting kind of big and I'm not sure I'm going to keep it - not there at least. I have oregano, chives, green onions, parsley, cilantro, mexican oregano, sage and thyme. The green onions are plants that I bought at the grocery store too.