Revamping

 


We had a little scare with our pet. This is Atlas the Beast. He is our 6 1/2 year old german shepherd. He is such a good dog. He had a bump come up on the top of his nose then it started looking like a weird wart so we made an appointment with the vet and the morning of the appointment I looked and the thing on his nose had fallen off. The vet seemed to think it was probably a spider or insect bite which made perfect sense because hes always sticking his long nose into the wood pile after whatever creatures live in there. We went ahead and got his yearly checkup and shots while we were there and some ointment for his nose and all is well. Mr Ladybug has been watching Vet Ranch on Youtube and I think we got paranoid watching all the things that can go wrong with your pet.

I really enjoy trying to get my blog done first thing in the mornings but it seems recently I have scheduled things that make that impossible to get done. Does anyone else feel like they have a million little things going that are pulling them this way and that and you are probably looking like a dog running around in circles chasing its tail? I sort of hope you arent but sort of hope I am not the only one.

So I am revamping a few things like how I blog. I will just post shorter posts but things that I hope you will find helpful. I think its easy to get caught up in the go big or go home mentality when what we really need is short and simple because lets face it we are busy bees.

I am revamping a few treasures that I have aquired from garage sales and the curb. I cant wait to show you those things.  I am also revamping my menu plan because as of recent I have just been winging it. The heat has been so crazy you just hate to heat up the house.

 You cant be called Mrs Ladubugs Urban farm and not farm! So its time to start working on the fall garden plans. Gardening is such a gamble sometimes and you make all these great plans only to have everything imaginable happen. My hats off to the large farms and anyone who really has to do this for their living. Our community garden is doing great but so is all the things eating our vegetables. ( Wanna know how over extended I am right now? I had to spell vegetables three times before I got it right!!!!) We are pretty sure that there is every critter imaginable eating our tomatoes and maybe even a few humans. Its all good as long as Gods creations are being well fed. I have really enjoyed my little tomatoes, onions. green peppers and yellow squash. We have a few winter squash doing well also. For the home garden we have some soil issues. Our radishes never did quite well and I think we need to add something to our soil. Our garlic didnt do as well and that may be from plant it in a partial shade area. The potatoes did okay. My cowpeas seem to be slow growing. This is our first year with them so we dont know what to expect. We will read and study and revamp things for next year as well.

Revamping dinners. When life is busy and the weather is hot its really easy to run and grab something out to eat. That can get expensive. Aldis grocery stores have this naan bread and its really good and makes the perfect pizza crust. There are also recipes on the package for a panini which we plan to try as well. Just gather your ingredients, chop everything up, turn your back for three seconds and turn to find your beagle eating the chopped ham, put the beagle in his cage with stern lecture on being a good dog and give him a carrot to chew on while he thinks about his actions, assemble your pizzas without ham and bake 8 minutes.

This is seriously the only time he behaves. He may have been in a ham coma. Hes so sweet and fun and we wouldnt have him any other way but I am really tired of getting my chewed up spatualas our of his cage where he hides them.