Once a month cooking

I spent the past 2 days cooking and preparing meals so I won't be wondering what to make for supper each night. I'm excited to have a flavorful variety to choose from! I will post my source when I get to the computer. Yum!

Seeing red

Yum!!

Visit to the Treasurer's Office

On Tuesday, I made a trip to the State Capitol in Little Rock.  

State Capitol, picture taken last year

You can take self-guided tours, and so I grabbed a brochure and started the tour.  On the second floor is where the State Treasurer's Office is located, and in that office is a safe.  However, the picture in the tour brochure was that of the bronze doors that are on the front side of the building.  Being slightly confused, a lady in the treasury pointed out the safe and asked another man that worked there if he would give a tour.  He kindly obliged, and gave some history on the safe.  

It is a walk-in safe, and has been at the capitol since 1912.  The doors on the safe weigh 11 tons.  Railroad tracks had to be built into the 2nd floor so that the doors could actually get into the building, and that story was built around the safe.  At any given time, they keep up to $400,000 locked up.  Oh--this was interesting, too:  The vault is closed at 3 o'clock everyday and it's put on a timer.  A 16-hour timer.  There is no getting in, or out, once the vault is closed, until the next day.  

This was me with $200,000!!  How neat?!   

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Tomatoes! Still green, but still growing! Hoping they turn red soon. :)

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Woohoo!! New Adam Lambert video

Woohoo!! New Adam Lambert video premiere today For 'If I Had You' on vh1.com!! Made my morning! :D
TCB :)

FWD:Gifts for the baby

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FWD:Blue Berry Bush new growth:)

Tomato Plant

Pictures from this morning.

Tomatoes!

Two tomatoes! Taken with my phone, so it may be hard to make out.

Aftermath, Post 3

Pretty! :)

I just liked the way this shot turned out.

Aftermath, Post 2

Debris

Horizontal power pole

Electric company working hard to restore power

Road under water

Tornado Aftermath, May 1

Last weekend, we took a drive to see the areas that had been hit by the tornadoes that came through the area. Luckily a)we weren't hit and b)we didn't see any houses that had really been affected. It was mostly trees that were knocked down, and debris blown. Still a lot of work, but nothing like losing a house.



Downed trees

Uprooted tree (one of many we saw)

Branches on power line

This house was "leaning" before the storm

Salsa Garden/Curtains

I have managed to keep the plants alive, just haven't posted pictures in a few weeks. I don't have any peppers showing, but I do have yellow blooms on the tomato plants. From what I've read, the flowers will bloom, die, and then the tomatoes will being to grow. So we've got yellow and green, just looking for the red!

Project Curtain Call is on schedule to resume this weekend.

New Blog!

I've started another blog, specifically for posts and updates about the baby/pregnancy, etc.

Add it to your list of blogs you follow! :)

bucklemyshoestring.blogspot.com

Some pretty strong and deadly

Some pretty strong and deadly storms rolled through our area last night. Luckily we didn't experience any damage!

Testing TCB :)

Testing
TCB :)

FWD:Strawberries

First batch of fresh strawberries of the year!! Yummmm!!

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Top 9 American Idol Season 9 - Tues, Apr. 6, 2010

This week's theme was the Lennon/McCartney songbook, and it actually wasn't as painful as I thought it would/could/might have been.

Aaron Kelly "Long Winding Road" Yikes. I generally like his performances..he exudes a confidence that many of the other contestants have not yet gained even though he is the youngest. However, not a good way to start the show, and it was really boring for me.

Andrew Garcia Can't Buy Me Love" Good, but nothing spectacular.

Casey James "Jealous Guy" Loved the arrangement, felt the emotion in the song. Better than his performances over the past couple of weeks. And my favorite of the night.

Crystal Bowersox "Come Together" Everything Randy said…solid performance, not her best, but very likeable and fun. Janis Joplin song. Having said that, I liked her carpet that she brought on stage.

Katie Stevens "Let It Be" I didn't want to like this song, but I did. For the first time she really connected with the song. This performance will keep her around for a little bit longer, in my opinion.

Lee DeWyze "Hey Jude" The bagpipes were a little over the top, but it's hard to not like Lee. I actually like how he's a "bundle of nerves" before each performance because it allows him to give 110% each performance. It didn't top last week's performance but it was good.

Michael Lynche ""Eleanor Rigby" Initial thought: "Oh no." It had a more current sound to it, which is what the judges are looking for, but I didn't fall in love with it.

Siobhan Magnus "Across the Universe" Sleepy.

Tim Urban "All My Loving" Not bad, definitely one of his better performances, I still don't think he's on the right stage. He does have a great smile, though! :)

Bottom 3:
Tim
Andrew
Aaron

With Tim going home.

Lenses

This is what happens when I change lenses on the camera but forget to change the setting! haha