I have great video from the Myriad Gardens and cute niecy getting her picture taken on a beautiful summer evening which I wanted to make into a "Movie Mix" with my cool FLIP video camera software. Would you like to see it? Well I'd love to show it to you but I'm having trouble with the program, or it's having trouble with me. It was the next blog entry I wanted to make but I kept getting stuck on the fact that I couldn't get the product I wanted. So if you know how to call up a "movie mix" on my cool camera, could you drop a comment?
Sigh.
I planted lots of wildflowers which are looking pretty good this summer, and then went kind of minimalist on the garden veggies. So when my one little bell pepper plant that is fully loaded with cute little peppers shrivels up for no apparent reason today, it makes me sad. It was appropriately watered, or so I thought. No leaf damage. No visible pests. So I'm afraid it's the dreaded phytophthora root rot, which means it's a gonner.
Ergh.
Level. Adjust. Pull. Add some more sand on one side. Spend the day filling the pool with water. Stand and admire the pretty new Intex pool all full and sparkly. Come into the back yard with a flower pot in hand three hours later and stop, still, to consider why the pool looks kind of odd. Ergh. The inflated ring on top that lifts the whole thing up has deflated and precious water is pouring over the side.
Bummer.(expensive bummer)
Other than that, things are peachy. The fresh basil that is doing so well in the garden will be great tomorrow when Grandpa Billy's tomatoes ripen and I can make a Caprese salad. (Mozarella, tomato, fresh whole basil leaves, olive oil, salt and pepper) I was at Nonna's this week in Bricktown and they make their Caprese salad like a Big Mac. Round slabs of mozarella stacked with full round tomato slices with basil layered between and some kind of dark vinagrette poured on top. You cut wedges out to eat.
It's great having daughter Melissa and baby Rylan here along with grandson Dakota. Can't wait til Cori and Alli check in next week!
Better go get some baby snuggling time and go check to see how much pool water is running away.
2 comments:
Bummer about the pool. Does it come with some kind of patch kit or do you have to take the whole thing back from whence it came?
Regarding the Flip, are you sure Movie Mix is installed? I'll send you an email...
Stephen,
We did get the pool set up OK finally. I think I didn't have the valve pushed in sufficiently or something. But it's holding water OK now and we've been enjoying it.
I actually made a Movie Mix before with it, but now I can't see it as an option. An e-mail would be appreciated.
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