Garden Update - with food!

I went to my garden and found this:

So I did this:

I also found these, but they're not quite ready yet:

Podcast Challenge 8

I just finished The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones. I'm not really sure what to think of it. For some reason, I thought it was going to be a mystery, but I'm not sure why I thought that. The whole book is all over the place. Part love story, part ghost story, part ruining someone's life story? It was fine, but not really good.

June Volunteering, Take Two

For this round, I drug my mom to a One Brick event at Books Through Bars. I loved it so much last time, that I felt the need to spread the love this time around. So, we spent three hours picking and packaging books to send to prisoners. At one point, I decided I had an idea about how to find books for someone who requested books on physiology and virology, then came to my senses and made Mom help me pick out some sweet medical books. I think I'm pretty good at finding readalikes for people who request fiction from specific authors, but medicine is not my forte. I'm looking forward to going back again.

Garden Update

Last week (I know, I'm horrible at updating in a timely fashion), I took my camera to my garden plot and took some pictures of what's going on there. We haven't eaten anything from it yet, which is what I need to do to consider this goal complete, but we're getting there.

We have a pepper growing! For the record, since I took this picture, I've gotten some cherry tomatoes growing and a squash blossom. I planted a ton of lettuce, but I don't think I watered it enough, as it pretty much stopped growing at 2 inch leaves. I didn't think I needed to get out there and water often, because we've been having a lot of rain, but perhaps not enough.

And now I'll leave you with a picture of my whole garden:

Looks pretty sad, now that I'm looking at it this way. I'll take more pictures next week, I think it looks better now.

June Volunteering

I headed back to WXPN yesterday to answer phones. For fund drives, it was a shame it was such a nice day. People weren't inside listening to their radios, but outside doing yard work or playing. I was inside, freezing, answering phones. Things really perk up with certain specials. Dan Reed, their drive guy, offered an additional 6 CDs to people who joined the CD of the month club during a certain break ($1,008 for the year). Three people joined at that level. We had a challenge going on and at the end of the hour, someone called, asked how much to make the goal to get the challenge, and gave it. Then, the last hour, we ran the $35 New Member Special. Well, that caused the phones to light up. The only time I've seen it busier was when I worked until 7pm on a Monday. At 7, the fund drive ends for the day, and during the last break to beg for money, David Dye had to walk away from his mic to answer the phone (they have two DJs on at each break, so it wasn't dead air).

May Mail - Slightly Belated

May didn't really present any natural opportunity for mail, and I failed at getting something out. I did send two pieces in April, and I'll strive to send two pieces in June to make up for it. And I was only 2 days late for sending it. When it comes to paying bills or RSVPing that's practically on time.

This piece of mail is particularly exciting to me. It was my RSVP (for the record, very much on time) for a Bat Mitzvah. I've never been to a Bat Mitzvah before (or a Bar Mitzvah, or any other Jewish rite, for that matter, unless you count Shabbat and Seder at college). I'm really excited to go to a synagogue and follow along in Hebrew. I. CANNOT. WAIT. Thus far, this wins for the best piece of mail I've sent this year (sorry, Casi's package with the Always Sunny card).