Surprise!

I got home last night after working for a couple days in Idaho in the yard of our home. The weeds have got out of control so I pulled lots of weeds and sprayed lots of Round Up. Joe stopped to pick up something to eat and surprised me with the roses. They are so beautiful and smell wonderful. I love the smell of roses.

How Does My Garden Grow Chapter 7

I planned my dentist appointment so I could pick the peaches off our peach tree at our home we are trying to sale (our formerly called vacation home but I now call it my work home). The peaches were perfect. I got a large dish pan full of peaches which I will freeze and make a peach pecan pie. A note added on September 25, 2010. I got 5 bags of frozen peaches which means 5 peach pecan pies!

How Does My Garden Grow Chapter 6

This is just part of the basil from the garden. I have made four batches of Pesto. It is so good. I love the smell of fresh basil and pesto. I froze all the pesto this batch to add to the pesto already frozen for later this year when the basil is all gone. We have enough basil for a couple more batches of pesto.

Pesto Chicken with Sun Dried Tomatoes. This was very yummy

Our first watermelon of the season and for that matter ever. It weighed in at 14.5 pounds. Not bad. There are three large melons and two smaller one that are almost ready to eat. For the cost of the plants we have come out ahead. I was so excited watching the watermelon grow. We had it for dinner on Labor Day. We were not disappointed. It tasted so good.

I have more tomatoes and peppers than we can eat. I decided to dry them. After reading on-line about how to sun dry tomatoes I found out that they dehydrated the tomatoes with a food dryer for the easiest way. I went to look for my food dryer and found out we had not moved it yet so I dried them in the oven. They smell very sweet as they are drying.

And on the 4th day there was light

Sunday morning I got up, went into the kitchen and turned the light on but... no light. Hum what is going on. In this house we never know when a plug or light will work so I must say it was not a real surprise. Monday was the prefect day to fix it as it was Labor Day. Joe checked the switches and they were good so he moved on to the light. It was the ballast in the light fixture. We decided to get a new light fixture that we can use when we remodel the kitchen. By the time we got the light it was too late to put it in. So last night, Wednesday Joe and I got the light up. It is really nice to have light in the kitchen again.

WOW!

Yesterday Mom and I attended the funeral for my brother-in-law's father who passed away. In our family it seems like my in-laws family just become part of my family as they often attend many of the family activities. As in the case of Eldon Hunt who had attended many Thanksgiving Dinners at my home and others over the years. As Mom, Blair and I were waiting to talk to the family and view the body I saw out of the corner of my eye and others looking at someone right behind me. I looked and it was President Thomas S. Monson. His parents and Eldon's parents has been close friends during their growing up years. President chatted with us and other for quite some time. He later spoke at the funeral.

As we talked he made you feel very comfortable. It was amazing to be able to meet the Prophet of our church and also to see him in a very normal setting. I still can't believe it!

He even wiggled his ears for Jack, my niece's son who is 5.