Lisa'sbirthday was this past Wednesday and she turned 28. That's old! She's steadily closing in on 30. Although she had already gotten her "big gift" (an eliptical) there were plenty of surprises in store.
Here's Lisa with her gifts and her glowing nuclear cake.
She was sooo excited to see that her collection of old films was getting started with North By Northwest.
And of course, what would a birthday be without lighting a cake on fire....we've got some weird traditions, don't we? As you can see 28 candles would have been too much for Lisa's old lungs to blow out. So we put two on the left and eight on the right.
All in all we had a good time celebrating Lisa's birthday. We got to eat at Carrabba's, which is a little Italian restaraunt kinda like Olive Garden, Lisa got to go shopping at the nice mall, and we had some good cake with minimal wax candle drippings.
This was my garden in the beginning stages maybe a week after planting.
I'm really excited about this guy. He's the plumeria tree that I brought back from Hawaii last year. I wasn't sure how he was going to do here, but so far he's really taking off! Hopefully by next year I'll have some pretty white, wonderfully smelling flowers.
This is my garden now. My beans (in the front) are HUGE and the tomatoes (in the back) will not stop growing. They are monsters threatening to take over the whole box. Hopefully I'll get some delicious, red "maters" on there soon enough to start enjoying them.
This is an aerial view of the garden. My strawberries, peas and carrots aren't doing so well, but my zucchini, watermelon and pumpkin, along with my beans and tomatoes of course, are really taking off. I also have a fun little green pepper that I'm not sure will get much bigger, but it's fun to see. I've already enjoyed 2 pickings of green beans. There's just nothing like fresh produce from the back yard!
