Day 195 Oh Happy Day

Today was the best day I've had since arriving in the Sooner state. I met a new friend who seemed to be a person meant to cross my path, with a message I've been waiting on, it's been an awesome day. I am now at home, enjoying a glass of lemonade and about to watch a movie, I'm so happy right now! I made some garlic bread for dinner and I've had a lot a bit of sugar today, not healthy at all, but I'm too happy to care, maybe tomorrow, I'll cook something nutritious. Little bit of strange news to go with the happy, I had a meeting with a baby deer today, she hung out next to me, licking my elbow while I worked, I watched her being bottle fed and then I watched her pee on the floor, it was quite entertaining.
Tomorrow, I'm going to collect more vegetables from our garden, hopefully the rain has made an improvement in the situation, we'll see! I'm crossing my fingers to be able to pick peppers, hopefully some have survived the swarming, hairdryer like heat. All the way around, there are cooler days ahead. I am grateful for plenty today.
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Day 189 and 190 Sad Sad Peppers

I'm back, with my refurbished personal laptop, in place of my work computer. I was a psycho last night because of my separation from said work computer, the likes of which is sitting on my desk, in my office and will stay there from now on. It has taken me all day to find a new power cord and to configure my old standby to work properly, but here I am and I am starving! Who knew ITing could make you so hungry. I have a lot to do today, first up, I'm going to see a movie and then I'm off to the garden again. Last night I was saddened to see that most of my peppers are not going to make it, the lack of rain is killing them! I found two really long red Cayenne's but they were floppy and one was dried up. I was really looking forward to the peppers and the salsa, but it may have to happen with grocery store peppers. I am sending out a fervent request for rain to save the rest of my garden, if anyone else would like to send a little shout out to save my veggies, I welcome it! Thank goodness for oodles of tomatoes and squash, next up birdhouse gourds and pumpkins!
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Day 170 Chocolate Cayenne Peppers

Today has been a pretty tasty day, after a lazy breakfast of biscuits and eggs, I hopped on over to my dad's house for lunch. My mom made taco salad and chocolate cake, which were both fabulous, we used some of the salsa, left over from last year for the salad...it was limey garlicky, good stuff!!  For dinner tonight, I made the squash I picked yesterday. Let me just say that I love, love, love patty pan squash, it has a really good flavor and it's pretty like a flower. The yellow squash were more like blossoms and were really flavorful as well. For dessert, I had two tomatoes, and I may have the banana pepper later. As far as peppers go, banana peppers are not my favorite, but perhaps I can find something interesting to do with it...I wonder if anyone has ever made a pepper bread? Like zucchini bread, only with a bit of a kick? I only have one on hand, so I would probably need a few more, but it is an idea worth exploring! I just had an idea along the lines of mixing peppers with sweets, a cayenne pepper, dipped in chocolate! Perfect! The cayenne's are really long and still green, so it may be a week or two before I can experiment, but I think it could work.
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Day 161 The Peppers Are Poppin'

So today, I took the day off in order to work in the office, I know that doesn't make sense. Where I work I have to use a personal day if I want to get paperwork done or have an "office day". If I don't, I am expected to reach a productivity goal, so I took a personal day. During my "free time" today, I contemplated the dilemma of my work sponsored celebration and the fact that it's in a restaurant. When it comes down to it, I will know that I did not complete my mission, at 364 days instead of 365. At this point, I am not going to eat with my team, but I will go with them and will at least get to participate in the games and stuff. Things may change in the next few weeks or so, the outing is July 1. but as of now, this is my decision.
I don't have much in the works tonight, just going to read a book I found at the used book store and perhaps have some mashed potatoes in a while. Tomorrow, I'm going to pick up our first squash and pepper pick, at my mom's. She says that the cayenne peppers are popping out and the squash are a little small, but this is just the beginning. She says, the more you pick, the more will continue to replace them, so I may be having squash for dinner tomorrow! Depending on how many peppers, I have, I may make salsa before the weekend is over, woo hoo!
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