Archive for June, 2011

Grilled Jerk Chicken

I was in a creative mood for something different when it comes to cooking chicken breasts.   So I decided to try jerk chicken over a charcoal grill.  I had to head to the grocery store to pick up some of the ingredients for the marinating paste that sits on the chicken before cooking.  I bought [...]


Tomato Plants Update

It’s been a little over a month since I planted my tomato plants in pots on the deck.   Despite the lack of rainfall over the past month, the plants are thriving.  I have been using the hose a lot!  The other thing that is thriving are the marigolds I planted that are supposed to help [...]


Peach Season Is Here

Is it just me or does it seem like peaches this year have been bountiful and tasty?  I have seen regular peaches and organic peaches everywhere.  I only buy peaches when I know they are from the southeast and I have already eaten South Carolina and Georgia peaches this year.  All have been delicious and [...]


Newer isn’t always better in computer programs

Since my main computer is down with a dead power supply, I have borrowed my daughters less than a year old computer.  It is faster and runs great. I needed to transfer a home movie and edit it to a dvd.  I saw her new computer had the movie program iMovie ’09 on it.  I had [...]


Tomato Plants Growing Quickly

I got a late start, but so far so good.  My container tomato plants seem to be thriving.  Granted, they are no where close to producing fruit; but they look promising. After thinking I was going to take a year off, a friend gave me a plant started from a seed and I just couldn’t [...]


Flying Rock Smashes Window

Never saw it happen, but while our car was parked in a school parking lot, the back window disappeared!   A maintenance crew was cutting the grass and a small stone got flung up by the mower and made a bee line to my back window.  It must have hit at just the right angle and [...]


College Baseball Playoffs

I remember the first time I watched college baseball, it wasn’t at the college I went to.  I didn’t even think about baseball and college together.  Now don’t get me wrong, I grew up a big baseball fan, but a Major League fan.  I had just graduated from college and moved to Texas, and caught [...]