Tomato Hornworm

Found this guy eating my tomato plants this morning....

Summer Breeze

All right so my first crack at the whole love-post-divorce thing didn't work out as well as I would have liked. Not that she wasn't a great girl I just wasn't sure what I was looking for or that what I was in was what was right for me. So I let go, again, and it hurt and I've just kind of thrown myself back into the things I love. Reading scripture, The Beast, gardening, running, surfing and amazingly work.

Oddly enough I've found great new satisfaction in my work over the past 6 months or so. For the longest time I had been considering just getting out of the design/computer related field mostly because I was more and more finding the work frustrating and not overly fulfilling. Turns out I was going about the whole thing the wrong way the key is "Work as unto the lord".

Running

While I'm still running roughly 20+- miles a week I've elected to take a brake from the races mostly for financial reasons. I'm back on a single income and spending anywhere from $1-200 a month on races just aint in the cards right now.

The Beast

Baby girl did her first year of pre-school this year at a local Christian school and I am amazed at the results. She's able to sound out words are write. My pride and joy.

Gardening

I have a serious deer problem and as the lack of fundage problem listed above might indicate I can't really afford to put a fence in right now to keep them out. Temporarily I've taken to spraying my non-edible plants with a product calleed Plantskyyd (pigs blood). This stuff reeks when first applied but seems to do a pretty good job so long as I don't try to stretch the application dates. I wait one week longer than I should and the roses are decimated. I hate those deer.

Finally getting my feet off the ground

I've been trying to take a trip somewhere, ANYWHERE, for what seems like forever and it just never seems to work out. Well I found me some cheap round trip tickets ($174) from Ft. Lauderdale to San Jose, Costa Rica and August and I bought them. Going alone unfortunately (or fortunately!) figure I'll spend a week doing whatever I want. Of course I think it will amount to being a beach bum and surfing all week. I'm excited though about maybe checking out a volcano and some rain forests. I am the worst planner on earth though so I've kind of enlisted my poor sister to help me get some semblance of an itinerary.

Wish me luck.