life

So far it’s been in the 80s, raining, in the 60s, below freezing and soon it may be snowing. I’m sure Austin will make it to the 70s again before the month is out. But still, progress has been made.

The worst past of my recent trip to Bastrop State Park is that I forgot my camera! Luckily, my phone doubles as a camera, just without a lot of the control I’m used to. Other than that it was a beautiful day, the park wasn’t very busy and the kids were ready to hike!

If you read the last post, obviously nothing came from it. A lot has happened since, including a global pandemic.

Do you know what’s hard? Creating a online presence out of pretty much nothing. Sure I have a linkedin, github, and facebook but I’ve never made an effort to get anyone to “follow” me. I still remember when Twitter came out and I thought “This is dumb. It will never work. Why would anyone want to use this??” Apparently I was wrong. I don’t admit to being wrong often but there’s no arguing with how popular Twitter is. So, because @rocktavious and I are creating a company that’s going to need some online presence, I created a twitter account. Check me out at @emmy_oop!

We’re harvesting our garden and cooking ribs!

I was out in my garden this morning, showing my mom how well it was doing over Facetime (that’s normal, right?) and I noticed some rather large poos on my heat tolerant tomato plant. To which my mom exclaimed, “I bet you have those nasty green worms! You better look.” “Nasty green worms” meaning the tomato hornworms which is actually quite beautiful but can destroy a tomato plant pretty quickly.

So I’ve just started a vegetable garden but I’ve been growing things for years. I’m not new to pests but I’m new to exactly how many pests a vegetable garden can attract almost immediately. Where did they all come from??

After a year of work, mostly by Kyle, our garden is up an running.  Last night we enjoyed a dinner made 80% from ingredients grown in our garden!