crazy times......

So I told you how Mike went out at midnight and bought the new book. He actually bought 2 one for each of us. The book has 749 pages and some people finished it in a day! But Erin ordered the book on amazon and was supposed to come on Monday, but they e-mailed her and told her it wouldn't come until the 11th. Well she didn't want to wait that long so she called around looking for it and everybody was sold out. I told Mike that they had some at Costco and Costco was closed on Sunday so if we showed up when it opened maybe there would be some left. We rushed up there ran in with a few other people and grabbed one of the last books. People were grabbing them right and left. One lady told us that her son and daughter-in-law each had one. She worked at the library and they even opened at midnight to let people check out the books. Then we all sat around the house reading Mike, Erin, and myself. Last night we watched Issy and Mike and I traded off. One of us would take care of the baby while the other one read for a while, then that person would relieve the other person and the other one would read. My dishes did not get done until this morning, and everybody had to eat hot pockets for dinner! I did take the princess outside to help me water my garden, she was so funny she kept trying to catch the big water drops that were dripping down.
She was surveying the area. Taking in the vast 4 foot by 4 foot garden that her grandmother was obsessing over.
Then she had to have a bath, she was still really sick. She is running a pretty high fever. So grandma put her in a luke warm bath to help bring it down. But she made up a new game, dropping crayons into the empty lotion bottle, so we brought that into the bath too. Now grandma has crayon marks on her tub:-)

As for my garden, I have a sneaky suspicion that this isn't a beef steak tomato! It is long and skinny like a roma tomato. But the plant said "beefsteak" when I bought it.

I saw this cucumber coming in a week ago. I have been so excited watching it grow all week. But then......
I saw this one on the other cucumber plant it was even bigger, just quietly growing where I didn't notice it. I think it will be my very first vegetable out of my garden. The garden probably ended up costing me $150 by the time I got all of the stuff together with gas and all. So that will be a $150 cucumber, I hope it's tasty!