Pumpkins

Good Sunday afternoon everyone!

This weekend has been GREAT!

Yesterday I ran 16 miles! Can you believe that...16 miles! It wore me out, so we did a little grocery shopping and then just rested the rest of the day! Arturo cooked me a wonderful steak with blue cheese butter, scalloped potatoes, and asparagus. It was so good, a great birthday dinner! For desert, it was homemade chocolate cupcakes! What a lucky birthday girl I was!

Today we worked in the garden a little and just cleaned things up since we have been gone for three weekends straight!

Here are a couple pictures of my pumpkins in the front. They are taking over the front yard!!!

I have a total of four pumpkins, but they all look about the same!

Have a great week everyone!

Catching up!

Hi guys...
Once again I have fallen behind. Sorry!
Here are a few pics of the house and the garden!

Our Green Beans and Peppers!


Our really tall tomatoes.


Our massive squash plants...


Our first little corn...let's hope the squirrels do not get to it first!

My pumpkins in the front!

Front of the house with the pumpkins... I think that we are going to paint the door black, just have not gotten to it yet.

That is all that I have to share this evening. Last week was a crazy busy week for Arturo...they worked calves and bred cows all week last week and it was really hot. I am still running and training! Things are going well...my legs are feeling great!

Have a great week everyone.

Our weekend progress!

Good evening...

We had a great weekend, a very productive weekend! Arturo went to work and tagged babies and I volunteered at the Arbor Day Run, here in Manhattan! Then we worked in the yard all afternoon. Arturo tilled up the garden and I planted a few plants and mowed the yard! Here are a few pictures of our progress. Also, I have added a picture of our silly puppy sleeping by the door!

I hope you all had as good as weekend as we had!

Have a great week!


Arturo tilling up the new front flower bed!


My flowers! Still need a little more in my containers, I just could not find what I wanted!


Our garden space, last year it was a 12x12 and this year Arturo made it 16x16. We are planning on putting a cute little fence around with a iron garden gate. It is going to be sooo cute!



Also, we are going to get our house painted in the next couple of weeks! I am so exicted. I am thinking a mossy green with black shutters and white trim. I will share pictures once it is done!

Well got to go to bed...I am running early in the morning and Arturo has to be at work by 6:30.

Slacked off again!

Sorry guys...I have slacked off on blogging again! We have been busy and I have not had easy access to a computer, but at work and we all know that I should be working not blogging!

Things are really good here, Arturo still has cows on a research trial and they are still calving so he is out at the Cow/Calf Unit seven days a week. He loves being out there and "Playing Cowboy." WE just can not wait until it is our own that he is checking on seven days a week. I will really never see him then!!!

I am still running, ran four this morning! I am so ready for it to warm up...today it is suppose to be 68 and then I think turn cooler tomorrow. I know I will be griping once it is a 100, but I bought some new spring things and I really want to wear them!

Well, I better get back to work...Have a great day everyone.

What is a blog with out a picture and lately I have not posted many pictures...sorry. These where my pansies from last year. My goal this weekend is to plant my cute vintage wheelbarrow with a load of pansies. We are also going to get our seeds started for our garden, the last freeze date is just around the corner!

Fall Harvest

I LOVE FALL!

I think that it is my favorite season. Spring comes in a close second though. I love the smells, the colors and the coolness in the air. The trees have all ready started to turn a little here, I can not wait till about the middle of October. It will be beautiful!

Last weekend I drug out my fall decorations, Mom got me the Fall Harvest door hanger last year and I think it looks pretty cute with the fall wreath behind it! I am dying to hit Hobby Lobby and pick up a couple more things for in the house. Maybe this weekend!

Garden ~
I think that the garden is beginning to slow down. The tomato plants still have green tomatoes on them, but I am afraid they are not going to turn with the cool weather we are having. We may have to have some fried green tomatoes pretty soon!

I picked this bunch on Sunday and Arturo just roasted them in the oven with EVOO and salt and pepper. Then he served it with lamb shanks that had been cooking in a port sauce most of the afternoon and orozo on the side. Oh my word, was it amazing! I love that he his a wonderful cook!
*Side note to Janet and LA we have, no let me correct myself, Arturo has used the pot multiple times, so far. I know that we will use the dog out of it this winter! Thank you again!*




Knitting ~
I am still knitting, I have three projects going on at once, and that is probably why I have not finished any of them! I get board with one and pick up another and just go back and forth. I am working on a Baby Surprise Jacket. It is giving me fits. I will try to take some pictures this week and get them up!

Running~
I am still running...Arturo and I ran three miles yesterday and I plan to run another three today. Then we will run three tomorrow. I am starting to loose some, it is just so slow. However, I really have not changed my diet, I still eat pretty much whatever I please. I do eat pretty good, just sometimes to much on the portion side. I really do need to work on getting that under control. It is just sooooo hard for me though. I LOVE TO EAT!

Well, that is about all I have to ramble about this morning. My car is in the shop so I have been at my desk since about 6:30 AM, so I better eat a bite and I guess do something productive.

Have a great day everyone!

Kansas Flowers

Texas has Blue Bonnets and Kansas has Sunflowers. Being a Texan I have to say the Blue Bonnets are amazing carpeting the hills of Texas, however there is something about the Kansas Sunflower in the late part of Summer. It is like the last little glimpse of summer before it begins to turn miserable cold. I picked an arrangements worth yesterday. As I was picking them Arturo said, "I have been meaning to pick you some of those, but I always get to busy and forget." I hate that our lives are moving at such speeds that we forget to do things out of the way for each other, I am the same way with him though. I mean to pick him up something special at the store or to make him something special, but by the time I have a chance to stop I just want to sit down and rest. I know we both need to try and slow down, but it seems we just can't right now. It means the world to me though that he still thinks of me when he sees pretty wildflowers or just that he thinks of me throughout the day! Man am I a lucky women!

This arrangement is sitting on the kitchen counter by the sink and it it just brightens my day every time I walk into the kitchen. I love fresh flowers!






Our two squash from the garden. I think we are going to try them out tonight!

Also to update you all on my running, I only got in 8 this last week. Not bad, just not my goal.

Have a great week everyone.

Garden Veggies

Just wanted to share some photos from the garden...Arturo thinks that it is petering out due to it is starting to cool off up here! The high is only suppose to be 70 degrees today. Arturo keeps telling me "we better start sharping the chain saw blades, it is going to be a COLD Winter." Last Winter was the worst Winter I have every been though and it was not even that bad compared to like Alaska, I am kind of a wimp when it comes to miserably cold weather.

Anyway, here are some our tasty tomatoes.

Baby Cantaloupe...I need to take another picture he or she is starting to really look like a cantaloupe.

Acron Squash...These are some of my favorite types of squash

Butternut Squash...another favorite

More tomatoes on the vine.

On a side note I ran 3.3 this morning. Go me!

Have a great day everyone.

Garden

Arturo and I both grew up in families that had a garden every year... so it was only right that we have one of our own. We were a little late putting it in, so our veggies have been a little slow producing. They are coming on though! We have tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, green beans, peppers (they are not doing very well),corn, cantaloupe and watermelon. So far we have harvested a few green beans and tomatoes, the other stuff will be ready soon. I love home grown produce, it always taste soooo much better than the stuff you get at the store.

We all ready have ideas on how to make it bigger and better next year!

Enjoy the pics!

A few pics of my sunflowers...