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So I’ve been avidly trying to start a vegetable garden in my backyard.  Last year my yield was tons and tons of coriander and 6 green beans!  Yes 6!  So this year I was determined that I would do better.. In March I got all excited and started a bunch of seeds that all frosted over and didn’t amount to anything, so in April I dumped it all and started again.. tomatos, green beans, zuchinni, coriander and basil..  well its been two weeks and as of yesterday I had two tinee tiny sprigs of basil.

Today I went outside to check, hoping that overnight something had grown .. and there seems to be some movement in the green bean and zuchinni departments.. they haven’t come out yet, but it looks like they are just about to pop out of the soil in the compartmentalized container I’m growing them in.. I got it for free from the nursery.  But the disaster is my coriander and basil.   I decided to put those seeds in soil that I put in a egg carton.  And guess what.. I found my egg carton in the middle of my grass EMPTY!!!  It has been really windy today.. to the point that the patio chairs had a small fiight to the other side of the deck, so it looks like the basil and coriander had a little trip too.  The funny thing is that we reseeded the backyard because it is so patchy and bumpy, and I don’t know if we’ll have anything better at the end of it all, because the grass seed doesn’t seem to have taken either.  Maybe we’ll have a lawn of coriander and basil!

I think I have a black thumb!  But I refuse to give up.. I just love the idea of growing my own vegetables and herbs too much and it doesn’t cost that much to keep trying.. so why not?

In weight loss news.. I had been dropping weight for most of the week until today.. bohoo.. maybe it was the little bit of apple pie and ice cream I had last night.  My BIL and SIL are going away for the weekend so we met up with them last night and we’re all dieting, and yet decided to go out for dessert.  It was a really stupid idea.  None of us wanted to eat the food, and yet we were sitting there splitting 2 desserts between four adults and two kids.  We gave most of it to the kids and there were left overs.  Seriously..  how do people who are dieting socialize?

I almost completely forgot to tell you.. My brother in law bought me a belt in December and it didn’t fit.. it was size L so I exchanged it for an XL and even then it was so hard to put on, and I could get the belt on with the first notch.. I stopped using the belt for awhile, but then it became necessary because my pants were lose.. so I was wearing it on the third notch, but today I went to the fourth very comfortably! Wohoo..

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