bread, cat poop, stress, red or green

The past few days have just slipped by me. The rains have stopped so we're back to hauling water every other day for the gardens. No sign of the no see 'ems coming out in force yet. It has started warming into the upper 70s near 80, but tomorrow he have some winds coming and it will cool off a bit. Whooville, which is an artist collective with lots of lovely gardens about a mile down the road from us has reported frosts in the last week, but we haven't had any here. Our baby squash an peppers and stuff are fine. June in known for having trickster weather and late frosts. Its actually possible to have a frost any day of the year here, but our average last frost is June 6th. I've heard that several years ago though, there were a late July 3rd frost that killed a lot of folks gardens. We're harvesting spinach, chard and kale everyday now and the lettuce, cabbage, beans, beets, turnips and squash are coming up.

In other news, Sparki got sick the other day from eating litter box treats. The kitten is totally evil and wild, but we're hoping he'll grow out of it and be sweet like Ivan was.

My bread machine is coming in the mail tomorrow! I can't wait, its going to be so awesome. Mmmmmmm..... bread with honey butter, sandwiches, toast; the possibilities are endless. I was also able to order a few new books for summer reading material. A copy of the Prose Edda, two books by Kveldulf Gundarsson, Elves, Wights and Trolls, and Teutonic Magic, and one that Shevy wanted that i can't remember right now, but it was another heathen related book.

Also I just found out yesterday that my Dad and brother are coming to visit for a weekend later this month. So for the next 16 days we're going o try to kick some ass in getting our shed in shape are ready for a shower. I don't know if it'll all get done in time but we're going to try. We have to build an insulated box around our big water tank and order a pump and plumb in the hot water heater and the places where the shower and washer will someday go. Oh and wire the whole shed and insulate the walls and get some circuits or something for our big power box on the pole. It all is pretty mind boggling right now, but we'll figure it out. I'm a bit stressed out though.

The dryness is making my nose bloody once more. I've discovered that in New Mexico, your snot is just like the chillies, red or green.