This is what happens when..

You garden at someone else's house.

You forget to check on your zucchinis, and of course you had a small one the last time you went and picked the huge one you forgot about. It's only been...a week or two? Look at this sucker.

For a comparison, here is my shoe. I am guessing this is the equivalent of a Shaq sized shoechinni (did you see what I did there?)

What am I going to do with this...hmm....

While you've been out

Update #2

Megan is visiting her family in Arkansas, so I decided to do a little repair. My desktop went out about a year ago, so I bought a refurbished one for $18 online (free shipping) and gutted it and put everything back together. No small task! I was pretty excited, so I made a video at the end. I now present it for your viewing pleasure.

Follow up with Dell

So, this was some time ago, but I wanted to let you know how everything turned out. So my brother directed me to consumerist.com where they will print your horror stories of customer service gone wrong. I emailed them (never heard back, go figure) but I was looking around their site and found the idea of a executive email carpet bomb (EECB apparently). So I investigated and someone had instructions specifically for Dell. Turns out the Dell executives' emails are all firstname.lastname@dell.com. So I went and found a list of Dell executives and picked out the relevant ones and plead my case. The very next morning I had an email from someone at their corporate headquarters wanting to set up a time to talk with me. We chatted, he said he didn't know why my information was correct, and said he was going to issue a $20 rebate on the card I used to pay for the video card. I said fantastic. He asked me if there was anything else. I said nope, and he wished me a good day. It took literally 5 minutes on the phone.

I feel great! It was like a month ago and it still makes me feel good. Ha! They admitted they were wrong and I got my rebate and everything is good in the world. So, I just thought I would update you all. And don't give up! You just need to find a person with authority, that's all it takes.

Dear Government,

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This makes me mad. Please get your no-good stinking face out of my business. I've got better reasons to keep my son intact than you do for cutting. Yes, I know its just a "recommendation" but tell that to pediatricians and others trying to intimidate me into doing something that I don't feel is in the best interest for my child, whether it be circumcising or vaccinations or anything else.
Please, all powerful government, why don't you spend more time getting parents to teach good morals to their kids? Why don't you spend more time promoting the fact that sexual relationships should wait until they are in a loving, committed relationship, or, dare I even say it?...marriage? That it shouldn't be something that you do drunkenly or high or with everyone that crosses your path? That would make me feel better than promoting universal cutting on infants. Have you even seen a circumcision?? Sorry, but I refuse to inflict that pain and irreversible procedure on someone who cannot consent for no medical reason.

Lovingly,
Me

Some Catchup and Food Storage!!

We have had a good end of July/August so far! We did have a couple of unbearably hot days but we survived. Sequim just isn't set up for 90+ weather. But other than that we have been having fun playing outside! We take sometimes multiple trips to the park every day. So fun!

Brian was asked to sub in nursery a couple of times and took Claire in with him. She LOVES nursery and when Brian is not in there she stands outside the gate shaking it wanting to get in. I WISH she could just go now when she wants to so bad. Who knows how she will be at 18 months. Anyway, one time they were in there she was chasing bubbles and fell and hit her eye on the chair.

It got nice and yellow.

Pretty girl in a bow

Is there anything better than a sleeping baby? I think not.

Claire LOVED grandma's IPhone and was sad to see it leave.

We got this chair for her and it is perfect. She can get in and out by herself and loves it.

This is where we keep a lot of our food storage. Everything that is not in boxes. I'm really excited about it. It makes me happy everytime I go in the garage. We are placing a big cannery order for this month too. Almost 200 lbs...whoo hoo!

All my cannery food.

We bought this shelf from Costco for about 80. I love it.

My food I canned. Pickles, pinto beans, black beans, beef and chicken. Love it!

Brian's mom is here with us and we've been having fun! Today we went to Silverdale and ate at Red Lobster (yay) and went to Michaels and Tuesday Mornings and the mall. I got some new jeans at the American Eagle sale (whoo hoo). We went to Poulsbo and explored the Central Market for as long as Claire let us....which actually was not long at all...it's been so nice having her here.

Well, I was going to put up some videos but blogger is taking forever. I'll try again tomorrow.

MIA

Sorry for the post hiatus...it's been busy around here. Busy and fun. I will play catch up maybe tonight or tomorrow. I've got 7 pints of chicken currently canning...see? fun!

Muah!