I've given up the memes and quizzes...

for a while (except on MySpace), but I thought this one was interesting and fun.

I scored fairly high. Yay!

just a saturday

Tripp and I went down to Ringgold proper, today, to check out 1890s Days - an annual event that is in celebration of Ringgold's past. I had never been and wanted to go. The event was just like one big festival with no theme. I can see why people have fun, but the website said that they were pretty strict on their vending guidelines and that there would be no manufactured or mass-produced goods. Well, it looked like most of the stuff wasn't handmade, but manufactured in disguise as handmade. It was disappointing. It didn't seem like a celebration of the past as much as it was just a big general festival and pusher of every church in town. You couldn't go ten feet without someone trying to hand you a pamphlet (only a slight exaggeration). I did pick up a cute horseshoe towel holder that I guy made - one of the only handmade booths there. Below is a woman in garb.



We came home and made lunch with some Rouge de Grenobloise lettuce picked right out of our garden. Tripp had a salad with organic hard-boiled eggs and I made some egg salad with a leaf salad on the side. It was sooooo good.

Rouge de Grenobloise lettuce

I just put out my pepper plants that I hope make it. They are extremely healthy, but small, and I hope they don't get eaten or cut in half by some cutworms.

We have a birthday party for a friend to go to tonight, so I think I'm going to take it easy until then. Later.

running on empty

I was more active this weekend than I have been for a while, to my downfall, possibly.

Friday, I got off from work and Tripp and I made a jaunt to downtown Chattanooga for some eats and a viewing of Iron Man. The food was good and the movie was better.

Saturday, We worked in the garden and I got the tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and onions in. Tripp did most of the tilling and filling in of the soil. We were exhausted by the late afternoon, but LO! - I had a show to go help out with. Made a trip over to Barking Legs and tended bar for the MockingCocks. The show was great from what I saw of it, but I was stuck behind the counter for most of it. From the sound of the crowd, it rocked socks. Afterwards, some of the show people went to Parkway Billiards, so I joined them. Ended up staying late and getting home about three AM. I also ended up going crazy with the drinky drink - which is very much unlike me.

I had to get up on Sunday and write a paper, but since I got in so late and was a bit hungover, I got up about eleven AM and began my paper. I really did NOT want to do this paper, so it took me about 3 hours to do... a 2-3 page paper. I usually can spit out a 6-pager in about an hour, and that includes proofreading. I was so tired.

Last night, we went to see The Cave Singers in Atlanta. They played at The Earl. It was a pretty low-key show, as expected. I got a couple of video snippets, but excuse the darkness - the digital video recording option on our camera kind of sucks, but it ended up better than expected.





There are also a few pictures from the show here.

We got home from the show about 2 AM and I had to get up about 6 AM. I ended up sleeping in a bit. I am now about to nod off, but need to do some reading and write a small one page paper tonight. Really, I JUST want to be sleeping.

Deadlings

The other day, I was out in the herb bed and I looked in our "pond" (a landscaping pond that the previous owner put in that we don't run and just sits with rainwater in it, which I use for plants) and found a dead skink all belly-up. Poor thing. I asked Tripp to get rid of it since I have a very sensitive gag reflex, but he forgot. Not wanting it to get too gross and make the pond more disgusting than it already is, I decided to go take care of it a little while ago. While I was out there, I was examining some sunflowers that magically appeared behind the other ones I planted and wondered why one of them was laying against the ground. Then I noticed the culprit - a poor little dead baby bird was lying there, crushing the sunflower. I hadn't noticed earlier when I found the sunflowers, but the bird was very chameleon-like. Anyway, I went to the back and got a long stick with a forked end and proceeded to play clean-up. I dumped both lifeless bodies under some boxwoods that we have growing next to our out-building. I didn't get sick at all and noticed that the bird's necrosis was past the part where I cannot handle it - the phase that involves the "m" word - so that was a good thing. Anyway, all is cleaned now and I have had some small amount of training for my Forensics course next fall.;P