The Lazy Gardner

I know i have said before that I am a lazy gardner...and although I have a large garden I go through spurts of being a superb gardener...mulching, fertlizing ect.. and a lazy gardner.

Last year I planted a bunch of carrots (still no idea why) and yes in my lazy gardening ways never did anything. I never even took them out of the ground.

So i am now in a spurt of being the good gardner and have been cleaning up my garden ect.. and came upon my carrots. Low and behold said carrots are pretty much well entact... I dug up a couple and they look like they weathered the entire winter snuggly and fine in my dirt. Hmmm , so i havent tried eating one yet... they maybe rubbery or nasty... so now I have carrot dilemma again. I have a bunch of carrots still slumbering in my garden... and *i think* i can dig em up and eat um.

So now i have carrot guilt. Because i probably will not do that.. they will probably end up in my composer..or my garbage.. yes i know lazy gardner syndrome.

I need to do a much better job of deciding what I REALLY am going to eat and use and plant only that... because at the end of the season i have noone to help my can ( i can use that excuse cant i?) ..so alot goes to waste... BUT i get so EXCITED at the beginning of the season planning my tomatoes, cukes, zuchinni and such of COURSE i will use it all

This year I will have a resolution to not go overboard....so i wont have carrot guilt..

The art of not eating

Okay so for some crazy reason I got in my head it would be a good thing to do a cleanse. I fiddled around on the internet for a while and decided I wanted to do something called the MasterCleanse.

Im not going to be fancy and hook you to a link but if your interested google it there is billions of stuff about it. In a nutshell you purge your body of toxins by not eating anything thats right nothing. You 'get' to drink a combination of fresh squeezed lemon juice, Grade B maple syrup, cayanne pepper and water. Then every night you do a "saltwater flush" Where you basically within a short amount of time as possible drink 1 liter of water with 1 TBS sea salt in it. Which then causes you to "purge" your body of whatever is in it.

The cleanse is supposed to be for 10 days and up to 40..but I had decided I wanted to do no more than a week. Today is day 5, of not eating anything except my wonderful lemonaide and im not really sure why I decided to do this in the first place. I *may* try at a later time to do the full 10 days but we will see. I have decided that tomorrow is my last day and on day 7 will start eating again.

Day 1, 2 were kinda hard, Day 3 pretty easy day 4 was hard again and today was pretty easy. I think it is the hardest because I have to make food for other people. So its not like I can isolate myself and not see or smell food. I think what I DONT like about this diet is it is a flush.. So after you drink your most delicious salt water you have about 2 hours of stomach pains and in and out of the bathroom. Its not fun. So i keep thinking there has got to be a better way. I am thinking about trying some other detox plans I guess there is one where you just eat raw fruits and veggies....i think i would like that one MUCH better...but im not sure what it does on the "cleansing" or flushing out your system side.. because the trick with this one is you are eating nothing so the hope is everything that comes out of your colon is not from something you ate recently..

Anyway, day 5 is winding down and i think im looking foward to tomrrow being my last day...

family n friends

So, I have long been an advocate of having good relationships with my family and friends but I have come to appreciate it more this week. I have been "recovering" this week and I have had many calls from my family and friends to check in on me and see how im doing. My most wonderful friend April has called me several times to see if I need anything and even fed my family one night this week.

My husband and many husbands I know, seem to think that they dont need "friends" and that they are fine without them. I think this is a bunch of crap.

I think it has to do with the maintenance of having relationships with people and the fact that to have a friend you have to be a friend and your relationship has to be cultivated. You have to call them to chat and god forbid, share your feelings, and check in on them and just BE there for them. Im not sure why the man gene has problems with any of this... im not saying ALL men because there are some out there that enjoy this but I would say more than 50% have this relationship issue. Maybe its the communication piece...and that men just dont enjoy sharing their feelings..or maybe their friendship is different and I just dont understand it..

But for whatever it is worth...thank you to all my family and my friends..i hope you know I love you dearly!

Holidays

Whoever is in charge of holidays and deciding what days are holidays needs to fix some issues.. our current Holidays are totally messed up. Dont they realize that we really dont CARE what holiday it is like Presidents day versus MLK day we only care that we get the day off and our kids dont have school. I think these 2 holidays in general are timed terrible.

You have Christmas and New Years that are right bang a week apart then a scant 3 weeks later comes MLK day.. lame..im not ready for a holiday yet... then not even 1 month later Presidents day. Then we have this HUGE span of time where is not a Holiday until Memorial day.

I know easter is in there but there is no "recognized" holiday for easter so everyone gets screwed. I think we need to have a "Day off Day' or "Labor Day #2 " in the middle between Presidents day and Memorial day. Who is in charge of this.? Who do i need to email about it.?