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The day that wouldnt end..

Category: The Garden Project | Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:14 pm

You ever wake up and just.. feel like you know "this is gonna be a long day. My daughter called me around 7:30pm, "Mommy, my ear hurts" I passed it off as her not wanting to go to sleep in her bed (when shes sick she sleeps with me) About an hour later she calls again "It still hurts" sure kid, take some tylenol, call me if it still hurts kiddo.. 45 minutes later I get that call, where you feel bad cause you doubted them and they're now clearly in pain, And since i work out of town (30-35 minutes away) and still have to gas up before going home, she has to wait even longer. Ugh.

Ugh.

Its 5:36am... I left work at about 9:45pm.. I just barely got her to sleep. We spent about 4 hours in urgent care, and another hour at the pharmacy (thank god for cvs' 24 hour pharmacy) I made sure I sent my sleeping husband some not-so-nice texts, just tryn to relay the you're a bleephole factor loud and clear ;) She ended up having a double ear infection and strep throat (If you werent scarred for life holding down your infant for routine vaccines, try holding down your almost 5 yr old daughter to have the back of her throat swabbed for strep... yeah)

So while waiting for her prescriptions to be filled I spoiled her with various things at my sleeping husbands expense (thanks hun), I came across these seeds called Giant Tomato tree from Gardeners choice, 5 bucks.. Why the hell not, always up for something different. While we were doing some additional waiting for her meds, I looked up some reviews for my new find, Turns out the company doesnt have the highest marks in customer satisfaction, But I wasnt ordering with the company, cvs handled that for me. And that seemed to be what drove the complaints, Being billed 60 bucks for something that had cost me 5... I guess Id be pissed too, LoL. It has promises of growing over 8 ft tall and producing over 60 pounds of tomatoes, most being bigger than a large grapefruit. Like all the reviews said, if its too good to be true...

AH HELL, IT WAS 5 BUCKS. Plus, If it doesnt germinate, I didnt buy it, so I'll have no shoppers remorse :) Now my worry has shifted over to where to find a space for these guys, Id like to have em where I can watch these "monsters" grow, But I dont want them cross pollinating with my other maters... Something tells me Im just in for a really nice beefsteak.. Which wouldnt terribly upset me. Tho next year all be more wiser about jumpin on board of too good to be true ship.

On an exciting note, I got my first double yolker! I looked in the nest and immediately saw the gargantuan size of it! I always thought the forums from backyard chicken were a little exageraated when it came to the double yolker talk. Wow. It was the first Ive ever seen.. It was a white egg, so its either from alfredo or stirfry.. I cracked it immediately (after taking pictures of both the egg, the egg against a standard sized egg, and then the yolk and whites itself) and made my famous mozzarella stuffed meatballs (btw, breakthrough technique for cooking them just perfect... sooo happy I have fresh basil available) Had to add a little bit more panko to account for the extra moisture but the end product was my best meatballs to date, even my hardly a meat eater daughter had 3, thats damn near unheard of!

Oh the fun to be had with a contagious almost 5 yr old kiddo with a double ear ache... And on my deep cleaning day too :( Wish me luck...

*LiCk*


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