it's SATURDAY and the living is hot as hell

we went to town today.
we had a bunch of errands and a big list
cat food
chicken and duck food
organic fertilizer
bone meal
blood meal
jute twine for the garden
cotton string
BT for the cabbage loopers
a waterproof mattress pad (i had a coupon for 20% off at BB&B so we got it there)
bernie needed a new book
more of those rootbeer float mugs (we got 4 more) and some glass canisters as well as a few... ahem..... skeleton garlands
and finally we stopped at shoprite for stuff on sale such as coffee, cheese, tissues (8 boxes as we go through at least two per cold....OK OK, I GO THROUGH two per cold..... bernie barely uses them)
odds and ends stuff mostly

we stopped at pier one, gees the salepeople were annoying, every freeken 5 seconds 'can i help you' (mostly asking bernie- that always cracks me up- the lady in borders with the cake samples offered it to him, looked at me and walked away!)
we stopped at arbies and had a fast brunch/lunch/snack thing.....soooo bad for me

we also got that copper 'steel' wool to seal up a hole that the mice were coming in through

then we bathed all the ducks, and i also walked the garden. i weeded a bit......got a tomato out
threw some kohlrobi and turnip seeds in...... pulled a bush bean out, tied up some squash leaves that were invading the eggplants
tied up a few eggplants that laid down.......
found a WHITE eggplant, when all i planted was purple (i love those kind of surprises)
discovered a baby pattypan squash!!!!!!!! counted two cuc's getting ready
and at least 45 of the tiny 2'' gerkin size on the vines

i tell you all, if i had a tiny bit more land, and a better house and kitchen, this would just be heaven here.....( i would have the goat and sheepies, a rooster, a milk cow, larger garden, better kitchen and STORAGE space)

the raised beds in the garden make things a lot better out there, if you don't have them and are thinking about them... DO IT
even if you have to do two beds a YEAR...... do it
you will not be sorry
it's made a huge difference in the whole health of the garden
it's also made it a pure pleasure to be out there (in spite of the heat and the fact that the garden isn't done yet!)
ok now i will upload a video for you of the babies bathing..... for me it doesn't get old, but i think most of you folks are either bored silly, or just not around
btw, i was talking to some folks in borders today, the husband had a triple bypass, and they were looking for ways with chicken, so i told them some of the stuff i do, i almost gave the wife my number and told her to call and i would tell her more ways around 'boring' chicken...all low fat, low cholesterol..... even though i do use butter etc, i also do low fat/low cholesterol too, depends on the day and what's in the house. the husband was telling me to stop talking about food as i was killing him
but he is going to make my roasted sweet pepper sauce and put it over chicken.
which reminds me, i put in the annual spice order.... i am treating us to pink peppercorns!!! hahahahaha
and a whole pound of wild rice!
cool huh?
ok here is the duck video......