My Tire Garden

 When I got home from shopping this morning there were two fire trucks and four other vehicles in our driveway. Half of my tire garden was destroyed and the flower bed next to the carport.

None of our buildings were damaged, but lots of plants look dead. They might put out from the roots, but the large lavender bushes, several little gnomes and a garden lady are gone.

Planning to Shop

I have been trying to decide how to shop cheaper.  It isn't something I've done before (that I remember, anyway). I usually just try to shop quickly because I seriously hate to shop.
But I have a couple of ideas for tomorrow. I have a sale flyer with some prices on it of things we eat. About the only price I actually know is tomato soup cost 75 cents the last time I bought some.  But the sale flyer goes with me.  I plan to go to a couple of places I haven't tried before and also the place with the flyer. It is hard to not buy something I have on my list the first place I find it. Anyway, I know better to buy something on sale that I don't actually eat. So my plan is to get the stuff on my list sooner or later, but to check prices and maybe record them in my notebook.  I've tried to keep the receipts as they list the things I've bought with the prices but I toss them out before any type of analysis.
I do actually analyze the withdrawals from my checking account.  Now I've decided to analyze the expenditures for groceries and other consumable products.
This is already more planning than I have done in the past...just things on the list to buy has been it up until now.

Funny Guy

I've been using an audio deep sleep with medical hypnosis tape to help myself get to sleep.  I use a soft headband with speakers when I'm trying to go to sleep with this audio book.  I have been doing pretty well with it but last night my husband decided to fix my hair. It was totally dark and I have no idea what his goal was, but by the time he'd finished arranging my hair, the speakers were not in the right place and I was trying hard not to laugh.  Trying not to laugh only made it worse.  Then he wanted to know if I was listening to a funny tape.  He didn't understand that him trying to arrange my hair in the dark struck me as funny which made it even funnier.  It's really hard to get back in the mood to sleep when giggling off and on. It's the first time I heard the whole tape and started it back over.

Dremel with Audio

I can't listen to my iPod with the vacuum cleaner or lawn mower so I assumed I couldn't carve eggs with my dremel and listen. But today I tried it and without increasing the volume I was able to listen while I carved with the dremel.  That was amazing. I didn't really expect it to work without turning it up a lot and I didn't know if that would be enjoyable.

Erosion Wash

 Several years ago we piled brush over head high in this erosion ditch. It is filling in the ditch as the brush catches leaves and dirt filters in and stays. Sometimes the rain is so hard that it washes the whole pile of brush, but it all gets caught somewhere and fills in behind it.

This area has filled in pretty well.  We have a lot of places like this. It looks pretty messy, but it is doing what I read it would in the Permaculture book.

Breakfast at Cracker Barrel

Today we went to Nashville so Larry could see his endocrinologist. We left before six A.M. and ate breakfast at Cracker Barrel.  They've changed their menu and had steel cut oats with apples and cinnamon. The low-fat milk was the only bad part.
We took tuna salad and bread for our lunches. It was cheaper than eating out twice!

Looking for a Box

I pretty much hate to buy boxes.  I do, because I mail stuff off. But I have been looking for a box to mail some decorated eggs to Mama. All the boxes I could find were too big or too small.
Larry brought one out to my art room today.  He unpacked a box that had a hummingbird feeder in it.  Then he spread the box flat and reassembled it inside out.  It's perfect!

I trimmed two egg places off the ends of two cartons so they would fit in the box nicely. That will be twenty eggs. I thought I'd send her enough to share.