whats growing.... MY BELLY!

Hello everyone. I hope we are all ready for the holiday season.






Sorry my post have been almost 2 months apart. Been busy getting ready for baby. My wonderful husband has put up a wall and my once 1 bedroom home is now a 3 bedroom home! Baby Robert has a place to call his own. I'll have pictures up once I get the room looking all cute. For now, you'll have to deal with a picture of my and my bump. At the last doc appt He said that Baby could be sooner then Feb 12th. But after yesterday's appt - we are back on for Feb. or Late Jan. There is poll going at work, most of my co-works think late Jan. We'll See!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Halloween 2009!

I hope everyone had a great and safe Halloween... Here are some pictures of us and what we did to the yard. Enjoy!

(above) Robert: Space Ghost - Me: Sally from the nightmare before christmas

Pictures of our SON

If you do not like looking at ultrasounds then you should not look at the pictures I am posting...

We are SO excited about our SON! Robert Lynn Davis the 3rd... and no, you may not call him Rob or Robbie. We have not come up with a 'short' name to call him. I like Robert. I think its a nice Strong name. And since I don't really call my husband Robert at home, I don't see an issue just yet. Maybe 003. Or R3. LOL... I use to joke with my friends that after I got married I became R2D2! Anyways.... Pictures of my handsome son below.

up close of his face.

profile of his face.

I did not put the other picture on here...the one that 'shows' he is a boy...I felt that is just well, uncalled for. If for some reason you feel you MUST see proof that his is a boy, let me know.

Thank you.

Gender UlterSound Today!

And the Gender is ........................................................................................................................................

we are very excited to be having a little boy in Feb. His name will be Robert Lynn Davis 3rd...I'm not to sure what we will call him, but we have time for that. he moves ALL the time Like a little jumping bean. Only 4 more months till we get to meet him.

Cast Iron Love affair

I have always wanted a Cast Iron Skillet and Dutch oven, and thanks to my younger sister and mom I got that for my Bday. Since then (almost a month later) I have become OBSESSED with them. I've made fried okra (wet batter and dry) Dad's Chili, Chicken noddle soup, Beef barley soup, Lots of cornbread, fried potatoes and I even skillet cooked pork with some veggies. My favorite website for cast iron recipes is http://www.dutchovendude.com/ Martha Stewart also has some good stuff. My food has never tasted better... and now my sis has a cast iron skillet! lol.

*baby Davis is coming along just fine. Im 5 months along and cant wait to find out the gender. Oct 8th!!!! I'll let everyone know. (Fingers crossed for boy)

New stuff ...

It must be BABY TIME... I found a lot of Baby Frogs, Baby Lizards and even a Baby Turtle in the garden. I must say, the baby turtle was the cutest.

I'm also happy to say the worm is gone from the Tomato plant and we now have 5 little tomatoes starting to grow. I'll have pictures when they get bigger.

Turtle in the Garden

I opened the back door to walk Thu the garden, just like every other day. As soon as I opened the door I saw Mr. Turtle sitting on the bottom rail of the deck. At first I thought he was just chilling, but then I noticed that He didn't try to hide in his shell when he saw me and that he was not moving... So I lend in for a closer look. Mr. Turtle was stuck under the branch of a climbing vine. I lifted the vine up and Mr. Turtle started to move away. But not a safe direction. He was moving to the ledge. Then, after looking around for a min, He JUMPED. Landed shell down on a stepping stone, quickly turned him self right side up and sat stunned for a sec. Then walked a way. I was so sure that he was not going to make it after that jump. But he did...
Here are some pictures Pre jump. I also have a video of the jump, but I need to make it a little smaller before I can post it. And to do that I need the husband. lol

Enjoy.

Peppers and Tomatoes oh my!

Hello again.
I know its been some time since my last post. But as most of you know, I'm pregnant and off work. While it seems like a perfect time for gardening and blogging, I've been relaxing and enjoying the fact that I don't have to do anything. I know this type of freedom will not happen again for a long time. so I'm soaking it up. :)

As for the garden, Somethings made it and something did not. Lets start with what did not make it:
My Squash. Sadly. It flowered like crazy but only gave me 1 squash. Maybe the lack of bee's. It kind-a looks like it got sick. I'm not to sure.
Broccoli. I have a picture of what my broccoli is doing. there are some sprouts but most of the leaves have been eaten off and the sprouts have little black bugs in them. gross.
Park Whopper Tomatoes. the vine is growing tall and strong. it makes flowers but not tomatoes. We found out worms will eat the vine and flowers. Sure enough we found 3 worms on it. here's hoping it produces.

Made it:
Roma Grape Tomatoes. we've eaten a lot of these guys. very yummy.
Heirloom Tomatoes. we've had 3 off this plant. hopefully the worm issue will help him out too.
Sweet Bell peppers -green/red. This did great! we have a lot of green peppers growing. Did you know that green peppers left on the vine will turn red? I did not.
All the herbs are doing great. and Thanks to a friend at work we've added Spanish oregano too the mix. What a great smell this has!

My Very sad Broccoli.

as you can see the leaves have been somethings lunch.

The Park Whopper Tomato

growing out of control!

Nice sized tomato

Most of the pepper plants.
mixed in with the sad squash.

Green pepper

2 green peppers

one I'm letting turn Red.

~Beach Trip~

~Beach Trip~

Ah the beach. How I love the sand in my toes and the sound of the waves. What a beautiful place. I mean any beach. Not just the one I was at. All beaches have there perks. Sand and Water! The only thing not so great about this beach was the Jellyfish. Yes, jellyfish. I had never been stung by one and I don't ever want to be stung again. One hit my chest and rolled down my front, leaving 3 red sting spots. The pain. It lasted maybe an hour. And right after that pain was going away, a jellyfish wrapped itself around my leg. This left a pretty good sized sting. This time the pain lasted about 2 to 3 hours... I didn't have a watch or clock, so I'm not really sure about times... But it felt like 3 hours...I was really lucky that I only got stung by 2, because they were everywhere! and really really big ones too. Everywhere you looked - there they were.
So enough about the bad stuff.... On to the good. First Food. I love food. good food at that. We ate some wonderful sushi - salmon and Catfish... I know what your thinking. Catfish? but yes, grilled catfish stuffed with a cornbread mix and crawfish. I'm not normally one for crawfish, but I like to try new things. This was a good try. Very fresh and very yummmy. Other good things were the people. Locals I mean. Every local store (by this I mean small shops like, clothing stores and art gallery's) we went into was very lovely and they were very nice and talkative. We made a lot of "new friends" :) We stopped in a garden store on the way out of town and bought two Palms and two hibiscus plants. They look so good in our garden. Of course the View was nice and the weather could not have been better. No rain and a nice 90 they whole time.

Here are some pictures of our trip. Enjoy!

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What a Wednesday.

WELCOME BACK!

I'm so sorry that it takes me some time to update here. Things in the garden have been GREAT! Our potatoes are doing very well, along with all the herbs we have planted. Some flowers have bloomed but most are just starting to bud. With all this rain, it hurt a lot of our early bloomers. As you saw from the last post, the Roses were amazing! The rain destroyed most of them. so sad. They only lasted a week or so. I have 2 Tomatoes growing and cant wait for more. Here I have pictures of 2 veggies I really proud of.

check out the Broccoli. We should
have some soon. Yummy!

And the Squash! They flowered already

and now they are starting to bush out!

FLOWER POWER!

Ah, to be a Bee...

The Roses have bloomed! and its seemed to have happened over night. They look amazing and smell wonderful. Its my favorite thing in the garden. I love cutting them and bringing roses into the house. I have them all over. Sadly, the rain came last night and knocked a lot of petals off. But no worries, they will grow back...All summer long! I just love it.

( The Color...)

( the smell!)

Beautiful!

Garden Journal

I started a Garden Journal about 2 months ago. I've listed everything growing, when it got planted, and looked up information on everything. I really think this is going to help me have a better understanding of my plants. Not much has happened with the plants yet. Everything is still making a home in the ground. By mid summer We're going to have all sorts of good things to eat. Provided that I can make them grow.

Here is whats happening now:
Bought and Planted 3-14:

Cilantro & Oregano

Park Whopper Tomatoes

Heirloom Tomatoes

Rome Grape Tomatoes 0ne green pepper






Sweet Bell Red Peppers
Squash
planted 6 of each

Broccoli

6 planted.

White Onions
20 planted, I think.



Potoets
planted 4




Floewers Bought and Planted 4-18:

Shasta Daisy

Yarrow- 2 kinds


HollyHock

Stonecrop

Candytuft


Verbena

MilkWeed


Thanks to everyone that keeps checking back with the blog. I know its been a 'working' site. I will try to do better this year. Even in the winter when nothing is growing. I made a point of buying winter flowers and some veggies.
I can't wait to taste all the good fruits of our labor.