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Happy Thanksgiving Foster Family and Friends!

today is the boy’s birthday. i asked him a couple of days ago what kind of cake would he like for his birthday. he told me a vanilla cake with blue icing. when i asked what shape he wanted, he said he didn’t care. i offered a computer shaped cake, or round, or square, and he said he didn’t care what shape. so this is what he got.

it’s been awhile since i put in the fall garden and so far it has gone well. i have picked some of the romaine and butter crisp lettuce. both of them were tasty. the spinach is good as well. a couple of the carrots got fat enough to be picked and were good in a taco salad. i have given away some of the lettuce and still have plenty so i think that was a successful crop. i will leave the rest of the carrots to get bigger. i planted the tulip bulbs today. those will bloom in the spring. the broccoli hasn’t produced anything other than leaves so far, but they have grown better than i thought they would.

So we spent most of this past weekend building and filling 4′x8′ planters. Thank you Carl! Today, I got some plants to put in for the fall. I have romaine lettuce, another lettuce, spinach, broccoli, rosemary, and just for some color, some mums.

Hopefully in a few weeks the lettuce and spinach will have grown enough to have salads and the broccoli shouldn’t be too far behind them.

In my profile, I mentioned that I am a Tupperware consultant. At the end of the month, there is a new catalog coming out for the holidays that will have some limited time offerings, and some neat new items. And starting this Saturday are the new monthly specials. This month is focusing on the microwave cookware line, Vent ‘N Serve. If you are interested in the Vent ‘N Serve line, August is the time to get it as there are some great deals available on it.  For those of you out of town where i can’t hand you a catalog, you can shop on my website at www.my2.tupperware.com/janiefoster

Happy Sunday!

This is for the guy in the dark grey Dodge truck. I really hope karma catches up to you without harming any innocent by standers.

How important you must be that you can’t wait 30 more seconds for a light to turn green so you can turn left into Target! And since you did it, it must be ok and the little old bat in the car in front of me ran the light too. It took more time for you to make the right in front of chick fila than it did for the light to change.

Oh and how special you are that you can run yet another red light leaving the Target parking lot AND try to make a right turn from the center lane that is supposed to go straight or left.  You actually pulled out to try to block my view of oncoming traffic and pull out in front of me. Did you really think that was going to work?  No i didn’t make it easy for you to get out. And oh my! you actually had to wait for me to make a right on red from the correct lane.

Sorry, but i’m not afraid of your big Dodge truck. I sit high enough in the van to see your stupid face. I also got the first part of your license plate. KLU- sorry i missed the numbers on your Virginia plate. But don’t worry. If I hear about any accidents today involving a big grey Dodge truck, I’ll be happy to contact the police and let them know how you’ve been driving today.

And for all that effort to get out of the parking lot, you sit at the green light in front of the mall! Thankfully Jefferson wasn’t that busy yet, because you couldn’t drive straight either. As slow as you were going at that time, you should have managed to go in a straight line even with your hands off the wheel. You should probably get that looked at.

and a little side note to the cashier at the market today: hey vera, it’s great that you are friendly and all that, but if you paid more attention to ringing up items instead of talking to EVERYBODY around you, 3 other cashiers might not have had to come up and take care of the line that was forming. You also might have noticed that i was done signing the slip and waiting for you to take it if you weren’t turned around talking to a customer in another lane.

Yesterday, Carl’s sister Lynn got married to Adam. So Congratulations to the newlyweds!  They are going camping for their honeymoon. I hope you guys managed to get the tent put up without too much trouble.  See ya when you get back.

i forgot an ingredient in ree’s cobbler things. you also need 2 cups of milk. i will edit the recipe to fix it.

the kids and i went grocery shopping today and found a few things to try out.  the first things we picked out where those fuze drinks. i’ve never had them before and since they were a dollar, i thought we’d give them a try. the boy has had them before so he picked out the strawberry kiwi one that he likes. the girl loves coconut flavored stuff so she picked the banana coconut one and i decided to try the fruit punch one.  they have things on them like slenderize, and low carb and that sort of think, but these are not diet get you thin drinks.  the kids liked theirs. the fruit punch one had a bit of an aftertaste to it, but that could be because it wasn’t totally cold yet. i still have half the bottle to finish later.  they only have 5 calories, so they are better than drinking soda. but they aren’t going to be an everyday drink.

then we found milkshake shakers in the freezer section. it’s a plastic shaker cup with beads of icecream in them. think dip n dots in a cup. you add milk to it and shake the bejeezbus out of it. what you end up with is a single serve milk shake. we tried the chocolate one. it tasted pretty good. i think it was 1.50, maybe a little less than that. i wouldn’t use them to make milkshakes for a crowd, but it was good and i’ll buy some again for a treat for the kids. one made enough for each of us to get a good size sample. the containers would be good to reuse as packaging for hot cocoa mix and the like for christmas.

then the girl and i went to fresh market to get produce and meat, and while we were there, we got a vanilla cupcake with chocolate icing, and one of the key lime tarts.  the cake part of my cupcake is pretty much just there as an excuse to have a big heap of icing. it had the taste and texture of a box cake. nothing against box mixes as i use them myself sometimes, but i expect more from a bakery cake. the icing was thick and heavy. the cupcake really couldn’t stand up to the heavy icing and toppled over when i cut it in half. half for me and half for the boy. the icing tasted like it came out of a can of dunkin hines icing instead of bakery icing. again nothing against canned icing, i just expect more from bakery items.  and it’s better to find out on a 99 cent cupcake, than to order several dozen of them.  they do have a yummy dessert tray that we got to sample a few weeks ago. when the daughter of the lady i do girl scouts with graduated fro high school, she ordered a dessert try from fresh market. the lemon bars and the brownies that i tried were very good.  they just seem to have missed the mark with the cupcakes.

we also bought starbucks frappichinos since i had a coupon for them but they are in the fridge getting cold. we’ll try them later today or tomorrow.

we had a visitor in the backyard this evening. i was washing the dishes and looking out the window that is over the sink and spotted a turtle!  he wandered over through the wire fence at the back of the yard that separates us from the little bit of wooded area behind us.  we took some pictures and he wandered around a bit. when he couldn’t make it back through the fence, i had to pick him up and put him through it. then he wandered on his little turtle way.   i’m assuming it is a male, since men won’t ask for directions. i did put on gloves before picking him up, and i gently touched his hind legs to get him to retreat into his shell so i wouldn’t accidently hit his head when i put him through to the leaf pile on the other side of the fence.  the girl sat and watched to make sure he wandered back into the woods and not our yard.