'Cause ya can can can!

I have the best neighbors a person could ask for. When I get home from work there are often fresh vegetables or fruit waiting for me on my porch. Last week I came home to so many apricots.



I canned them tonight after work.

Liz and Phoebe...Canning is easy, super easy. Buy the Ball Blue Book of Canning and a 21 Quart Waterbath Canner (I got mine at the DI for $3) and start canning. I do suggest buying a can grabber, they make grabbing the hot bottles out of the waterbath so much more pleasant. I also suggest a magnet stick grabber thingie for getting your lids out of the boiling water. You can get a complete starter kit here for about $50. Smith and Edwards also has a great canning selection.

Canning is my way of builing up my food storage. I think I'm going to chicken and beef next month, along with the gazillion tomatoes from my garden.

I admit you are better than I am.

I actually beat Ryan 3 games to 1 last night at racquetball. I could tell he was having off games, missing hits he would normally crush. But I didn't care. Until I noticed something. He was playing left handed. He said he can shoot a basketball just as well with his left hand as he can his right and he should be able to play racquetball just as well as a lefty.

I know he'll keep practicing left handed and eventually he be beating me that way too, but for now, I'll take the win.

Dead Bird.

Last night as I was walking out to water my garden I smelled something. It was the smell of death. You know what I saw on my window sill? A bird. I went to get Ryan, he was on the phone with one of his BFF's so he didn't show much interest. He just said mouthed "It's not dead yet." I plugged my nose and took a closer look. Sure enough, it looked like it was breathing.

Had this happened to my dad, he would've gotten a shoe box and a towel and decide he was going to nurse the dying bird back to health. Do you think that's what I did?

NO. I found a large rock and was going to smash it's head and put it out of it's misery. I put on a leather glove picked up the bird and discovered maggots were all over the underside of the thing. What looked like breathing was maggots moving inside the bird.

Now ask yourself if you think I felt badly that a bird rammed it's head into my window knocked itself out and died.

The answer again is NO. I just know this is one the birds that's eating at my garden.

Serves it right.

(Sorry no picture, I felt a little gruesome taking a photo of a dead bird just to go on and on about how I didn't feel any remorse for the thing.)

No Guts, No Glory

Deron Williams was on the radio last night. He said he's signing his contract today and that he loves Utah, he loves that it's not a big night life here, he loves that he can raise his family here, he loves the scenery. As Ryan was relaying this to me, I started to tear up. Yes, I cried real tears. I'm just so darn happy that Deron Williams is a Jazz man. I've been angry with everyone on the Jazz at least one game, Boozer played like he'd never touched a basketball in the playoffs, Okur, AK47, everyone has upset me at least once. Except Deron Williams.

Here's to you D. Will. I love ya.

Redbox

I was grounded from Redbox for a little while. I rented 3 movies and kept them 7 days. Yesterday I decided to give myself a second chance. I got 2 movies and planned on watching them both last night, turns out I'm not such a night owl. I made it through one then went to bed. I was determined to watch both movies and have them back today by 9. Sounds easy, right? Wrong ping pong. Thursday night was already booked. I was left with only one option.

I woke up this morning and went to the gym, came home and had a protien shake while I watched my movie. Ryan told me that's a productive morning, watching a whole movie before I even have to shower for work. I would say it would've been more productive if I folded laundry while watching. I would actually say it was a little crazy. Watching Fools Gold at 6am?

Matthew McBugsme was annoying as ever.