Cute Bunny Pic Saves Sanity

Please excuse my absence while I pull out all my hair, jump up and down, yell at my minions (family members) and try unsuccessfully to set up my new computer.  My ancient computer was fried in a thunderstorm on Friday evening. While I feel blessed to have a replacement CPU I am not happy about my inability to do anything with it.  After a frustrating day of downloading, tweaking, searching, reading, clicking and crying I have almost restored the balance in the force. I have not written Monday's blog post, completed my designated Bible study homework, written up this week's Sunday School lesson, made my bed, done my laundry or had any fun at all! I did finally write and send the "happy graduation" cards that are going to be very late, however the rest of the day has been devoted to the restoration of computer!

I cannot post a happy bunny picture (of Jackson or Cleo) because I have not downloaded photo software yet and cannot upload a cute bunny picture. Here is a picture from Daily  Bunny.com.

Hungry Buns! So cute. I feel better now!

Dean & The Herb Garden

I have ideas and plans but sometimes they involve things I don't like to do (planting things) or things I physically or talentlessly cannot do (open jars, write computer programs). In those moments when I realize my latest project involves something I don't want to do or can't do I never give up, I immediately think I will get my minions (oops), I meant family members, to help me!!

Thus, Bailey helps me redesign the blog, upgrades all my software on the computer, my phone and my Kindle. Parker drives to the store when I don't have on makeup, opens jars, and advises me on everything from You Tube, Facebook, ITunes to phone apps. Dean plants things, builds things and kills spiders!

Here is my latest project:

If it looks impressive, it's important to remember that I had almost nothing to do with it! I saw (on Pinterest) three round pots stacked on top of each other filled with herbs. I accompanied Dean to Home Depot to pick out my herbs. We also picked out the pots together. But then the real work began:

None of us ever does anything alone, there is always a helper. This is Max, the ancient black lab mix.

I am blessed to have a skilled and enthusiastic husband! I did do one other thing. I purchased a book on herb gardening!

It's good that I purchased the book as I discovered I have already made some mistakes. I may perhaps be over watering and I was not careful to avoid getting the leaves wet. The watering is a little confusing because the author of "herb gardening from the ground up" lives in Connecticut. He advises that: "you might have to water your vegetable garden five or six times in the course of it (summer), and your herb garden only twice." My grandfather had a vegetable garden on our property when I was growing up. We watered almost every day especially in July and August due to the hot Texas summers, I have no concept of watering 5 or 6 times in three months.  He does recommend allowing the soil to become "bone dry" to a depth of 6" before watering. We will see what happens! Happy Gardening!