Enough to piss the Pope off!!

So Obama (how sad is that I had to look up how to spell his name?) was in town a couple of days ago. I heard about it the night before he was coming into town. I warned Michael the next morning that traffic was going to be a holy terror because for some reason when Presidents come into town, they like to come into it during rush hour traffic. Thankfully he was kind enough to land at LAX and helicopter into West LA. So while we were sitting at the light on Centinela and Culver, I felt like Radar from MASH, I could hear them, but I couldn't see them and last minute I decided to take a picture...look for the three helicopters, the President is in one of them. The next morning, I didn't pay attention to the news, dropped Michael off at work and BAM got onto the 405 South went about 3 miles and just in between exits with no place to go, traffic stopped. I mean STOPPED, like turn off your engine and roll down the windows and hang your feet out because your not going ANYWHERE!!! Again thanks Mr. President for at least avoiding rush hour morning traffic like I was trying to do but I really didn't enjoy sitting in the truck for 20 minutes, while your caravaning back to LAX through Inglewood and completely shut down the 405 so you can get on Slauson and head down a deserted south bound 405...when will they ever learn???? If you want my vote don't piss me off with holding up traffic its bad as it is, don't make it worse. 20 mins of this!!! Why is is that I always get stuck in traffic with the Democrats and not the Republicans? Like I said that morning was enough to piss the Pope off and he has enough already to be pissed off about!!!

Backyard Visitors

We had a little family come visit us. The Mom wasn't too thrilled about having us interrupt them but these guys just wanted to play. They must have spent at least 20 minutes in the yard chasing each other with Michael less the 6 feet away. Picture not great sorry...from the camera phone looking through the sliding door.

I DID IT!!!

I finally broke the $100 saving mark at the grocery store!!! It will probably be the last time too..stupid Ralph's isn't giving away the points for money any more instead it goes for gas and of course the most expensive gas that would cost me $150 to fill up instead of the $100. Oh well at least I did it when it counted!!!

Growing Potatoes

This year since we were planting a garden and I had a bag of potatoes that were growing on their own anyway, I decided to plant some potatoes. This is how they looked after a couple of weeks. Who knew potatoes could look so pretty!!!

Here's a couple of other pictures of our early spring garden. Celery, lettuce and Japanese eggplant.

Hopefully we will have a good Summer harvest this year!!!!

Kindle

I had no idea that Michael had taken this picture of me. One of my most favorite things to do is read. He got me a Kindle for my 40th birthday. It came the day we had Grandma's funeral in Long Beach. I knew I wanted one, but wasn't really sure of everything and with the stress of everything going on at the time, I didn't really pay attention to it. So Michael set it up and starting loading books from my favorite authors on it and well 3 years later and 250 + books; I'm still crazy about my Kindle.

Give me a good book over the TV and I'll be reading. I love getting wrapped up in a blanket and just reading myself to sleep. Thank goodness for kindle's free section of books. I probably would have never read most of the books if I had to pay for them, but I've come across some really good free ones.

March rain brings April flowers

I know, I know that's not how the saying goes, but it seems to be true. Michael has been doing really well with keeping up with the watering of the garden, but it just seems like the rain we had last month and this month already has the stuff to make the garden grow.

We planted potatoes and asparagus this year, along with the rest of the normal stuff and well we've had a little black with a white stripe visitor at our house and his or her friend the opossum and it seemed like their favorite thing to do was to eat my asparagus roots and they especially like my Stevia, (guess because its sweet)but check out what we found after the rain on Friday!!!



I knew that we had a good supply of potatoes growing, Michael just stuck one in this container as one of his "many" surprises he plants and then doesn't remember that he planted them...you should see our carrots!!! Anyway...Yeah we have asparagus growing, have no clue if it's just going to be this one and only stock but at least it's growing....now to keep peppy le phew away from it!!!

Pictures from the parking lot of Home Depot

It was such a pretty day and I was at Home Depot picking up some dirt so I have to go to the end of their parking lot which is on a hill and capture these pictures. I love the flag blowing in the wind.