And here I am, doing the unthinkable with a brand-new laptop. I'm sitting in bed, with it on a laptop tray (a repurposed TV tray top that broke, actually), and I'm eating. Fried chicken, popcorn, cookies, and half that tomato I picked the other day. The first one from the garden. I'd have a photo for y'all, but ... well ... I kind of forgot before I cut it up and we ate it. A teeny bit of salt sprinkled on the slices for some extra flavor and it was gone. And yes, I saved the seeds as I went. There weren't many in this one as it is a very small beefsteak, but I did scoop them out into a small bowl, added some water, and stuck a lid on it, before popping it onto my desk in the front bedroom where it can stink all it wants in a few days. I want MORE of these things, especially after tasting this one.
Mind, Quentin likes tomatoes a lot, almost more than me, and that's saying something. But all he's ever had for YEARS has been those nasty cardboard things from the store, and let's face it, those things have color and size but no real tomato flavor. So when I held out the plate with the slices, he was a bit leery of trying it, figuring it was going to taste like a store-bought tomato. His eyes got so big and he said, "Oh my GOD! That is good!" and promptly grabbed half of them to add to his lunch. Then he sat and moaned in delight over every bite. I think I have him hooked now on homegrown, just off one tomato, haha! Now to just get him hooked on increasing and improving the garden space so I can do more next year! Off to find books and eat!
Woops, good thing I made a HTML file backup of my bookmarks. Apparently, when I went out earlier to unsync Chrome on the netbook and delete all my bookmarks that Quentin won't need ... it didn't get unsynced before I deleted. Thank goodness for backups, so I could import my bookmarks and spend five minutes reorganizing them instead of goodness knows how long refinding them all! I am a dork! And then Chrome starting acting weird on the netbook, so I had to shut down Chrome and restart it. Sheesh. That thing is really getting on my nerves now that I'm used to the new one. And the 1-ton winch that Quentin bought Thursday because he just HAD to have it? He broke it already, so he is "wasting" his Sunday taking it back to Wal-Mart to exchange it. I told him it's 2 hours round trip tops, it's not wasting the whole day. Sheesh. Oh well, it's time to call my Mom for our weekly chat, so hugs, all!
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