Grow an Avocado Tree!

I am trying to grow an Avocado Tree. Now, I have never done this before and so far nothing is happening. I think it needs more sun. Also you have to make sure it always has watching touching the bottom of the seed. It can't stay outside in the winter and it won't grow fruit for about 3 or 4 years. But I think it would be neat to have!
How to do it:
1. Cut up an Avocado, take out the pit. Wash the fruit off the pit under warm water, using your fingers. Dry with a paper towel.
2. Pierce the fattest part of the pit with toothpicks, I used bamboo kabob skewrs(sp?).
3. Fill up a container with water and place the pit on the top. You want the bottom to be in the water.
4. Place in a sunny area.
I will keep you posted. Hopefully it will sprout soon. It may take a couple of weeks.

Frank:Upclose and Personal

I woke him up to take this upclose picture. How much does he hate me? Not very much actually! We found a boo-boo on his right shoulder when we got back on Sunday night. I think it is from the fight he got into the other day. He was freaking out more than usual when we were giving him a bath, probably because the cut was hurting due to the soap and water. It doesn't seem to bother him now. Such a tough guy!

Check out my green thumb!!

Turns out that I have had a green thumb all along. I have always thought that I am a bad cook and a plant killer. I killed a cactus once! How? I over loved it, too much water. But this plant, it was a little piece that a friend of ours broke off the dying plant and stuck in a glass of water. It sat in the water for a long time, then one day I said, "Krista, let's plant this!". So I did. I stuck it in a glass planter with some dirt that James had in the basement. I got discouraged because it wasn't doing well, the dirt was really watery and the plant didn't seem to be growing roots. I took the plant and dirt out of the planter, threw some glass beads in and spread them out on the bottom, then stuck the plant back in with a little more dirt. And Ta-friggin'-Daa!! The plant has now gone from one sprig of dying to a beautiful healthy plant!! So I am more capable than I ever gave myself credit for, it is amazing what you can do with a little time!!

I got to find my green thumb!!

These are my Mom's tomato plants. She started them with seeds inside, I need to do the same. I am going to go and get the things I need and start them this week. Grow them and then plant them outside at the end of May. I am not sure exactly what I want yet. I need to draw it out and figure out what kind of veggies we will eat. I am really excited about growing our own food. We watched 'Food Inc.' last night. It is pretty scary what we don't know about our food. I think that we (James and I) need to be more conscious of what we are eating. We are already pretty good but we eat a lot of processed stuff. He wants to start running and doing yoga, once he starts that he will eat more and need better, whole foods. We need to buy local and organic. He is going to go in on a half cow with some guys from work. He eats a lot of meat, which is fine, but he needs to make sure it is good meat.

Go bus conversations!!

We went home to my parents on the weekend. I took these photos of flowers in the backyard. We had tons of fun! We played pool,drank, laughed our butts off and ate tons of food! I always forget how beautiful and peaceful it is up there. I am so lucky that I got to grow up in such a great place. I walked into Bowmanville yesterday to get some groceries. I took the Go bus back to the house, on the bus there were two teenagers who started chatting. They were talking about how there schools were better than each others. The boy was from Whitby who moved to Bowmanville
a couple of years ago. The poor guy had to leave all of his friends! He is 16. They then talked about their "relationships". He has been dating a girl for two weeks. Apparently he calls her all the time and she never calls, so he did an experiment. He didn't call her for a week. She never called him. Finally he called her and she said that she needed some time to herself. IT HAS BEEN TWO WEEKS!! Wow. The girl said that she has heard that a million times. I didn't hear how old the chick was but if I had to guess, well probably 17 or something. Kids!

Watch this movie!!

lol catz are my crack.

Sometimes I get stuck on the internet looking at cute animal picture and videos. I think that is my crack. Can't get enough. I saw this one last night. I love Marie Antoinette, anything to do with her I find fascinating. Now I know a sleeping cat isn't fascinating, but look at the fur, the colour, the posture! If Frank was still, er, well, "equipped", then I would be tracking this beauty of a cat down! Of course I am assuming that this is a female. Even so, I really want a pretty white kitty. Frank would probably be scared of it, would remind him of the evil White Cat. I just think it would look pretty for family photos. James could hold Frank the boy cat and I would hold Margaret the girl cat. I am not sure yet what her name would be, maybe Helen. Marcia? Another boy would be named Dennis,obviously!