Baby Bird

Today was lazy and uneventful until will found this little fellow in our backyard. It was just sitting there, despite Jason walking past it several times, and me coming up with a camera. At first I thought it was dead, but then it moved a little, and I thought it was injured. It finally flew a little but could not fly very high, and from the looks of it, it has fine hair, much like a baby. I am thinking it lost its mother. We kind of shooed it into the woods, where it stayed on a small tree. I thought it would be safer there rather than out in the open where the larger birds fly over and the neighborhood cats walk around. I hope it survived, it was cute and I felt a little helpless not knowing how to help it.

Garage Sale

I was so tired yesterday that I came home from work and fell asleep for about 3hrs and missed taking any pictures. Today was our garage sale day and we had to set up at 7am. We sold more than half of our items within the first hour, and sold pretty much almost everything after. Todat sales made was a little over $200. Not the best, but I didn't have a lot of stuff and really just wanted them out of the house. So still a job well done.

Sick

I ended up calling a substitute for work yesterday when I started running a fever. Today I woke up with a chest cold so I am glad I did. I think it really started the night before when I kept waking up feeling breathless. So I have been medicating with theraflu to get the mucus in my chest to break up, and my inhaler because I was wheezy all morning. At least the fever broke and I can breathe semi normally now. Tomorrow is field day and I need to be able to not feel like crap.

Teacher Appreciation

I forgot to mention that this week is teacher's appreciation week. One of the perks of working in the school I am at is the fabulous PTA that go out of their way to do nice things for the teachers. They had a gift thing today with a feast and this is what I got. Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling the best and left early.

Happiness in a Vase

Feeling a little under the weather and exhausted today. It was a pretty shitty day, and my vase of flowers never fail to at least brighten up my kitchen and my day a little. I call it happiness in a vase.

Ribena

Today was my usual grocery shopping day and while walking around, I stumbled on a shelf of some British items, and guess what I see at the bottom shelf! Ribena!! At $6+ a bottle, I could not bear to buy it, plus while I was excited to find Ribena, it is not exactly my favorite drink and the excitement was mainly nostalgia more than anything else. But still, I am glad to be finding things I grew up with more and more easily accessible these days.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

We finally got down to planting our vegetables today. This year we decided to go small and only plant the ones we eat the most so we planted tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and cantaloupes. I am not giving up on the cantaloupes. The first year we planted them, they came out wonderful, the next two previous years sucked. The year before last, it did not fruit, and last year the fruit was small, and did not taste good. I do think last years crop was due to me being away for a month, and not being able to ensure it got enough water during the fruiting stage. Maybe this year it'll be better. I am not dreaming of making jalapeño poppers!