Hey Girl. -Love, Ryan

Everyone has seen the Ryan Gosling memes floating around on the interweb, yes? I mean he's gorgeous, stops your heart with a smile, dresses in that "i'm really too cool to care because i'll still look amazing" way, and has a ridiculously adorable dog (named George, go figure) that somehow seems fitting to make this stud appear to be the complete opposite of the douche-bag we girls who can't have him would love to imagine that he is to make ourselves feel better about the missing Ryan in our lives.


(interesting fact: if you read that massive sentence out loud in one breath you should start feeling a tiny bit of the heart pain we Ryan-less girls feel every time we see a picture of this man.)


Prepare your panties ladies and gents- behold the glory that is RG:




of course he would carry his dog up the escalator.... and his expression: that's love shining out of his eyeballs there, people. This photo left in giant size for learning purposes only..







</uncontrollable drooling>



so back to what i was saying... Take photos of this man, add quirky - sometimes pithy - captions all around his face and you get:

if you're new to this... SHAME ON YOU! but seriously, you can find out more about this HERE and if you ACTUALLY read the article, you'll see that you can buy a BOOK of these images! For the coffee table... or night stand.. or you can just keep it under your pillow.. like i would.. whatever...

well when you look at me like that Ryan...

It's gonna be hard but... for you?

I died!! AAHAHAHAHA

So supportive..

George making another guest appearance.... Basking in RG love.

Stop~!!!

that hair, that smile, that stubble. swoon. <3

I'm dying..

wood watching...

photo props: http://oldphotoguy.com/p333085964/h3A8CA1BC#h2a557460 Oh hey I'm just.... Chillin. In a TREE... NBD.

^   this guy....  ^

LIKE THIS!!! RAWWWRRR! also.. apparently eating?

On top of all this awesomeness you can feel even better about your purchase because WeWood is partnered with American Forest's Global ReLeaf on a mission to "restore Mother Nature- one watch at a time." For every WeWood that is bought, a tree is planted somewhere in the world to help clean air and water and generally bring natural goodness to our lives. Now that's what I'm talking about!! Of course I could never just settle for any old watch like some Rolex or something......




But seriously- how can you say no? At only about $120 per watch (which comes with a TREE included!!) that's a steal and you don't even need to dig the hole!




Seriously though.. Outfitted in your favorite Toms, grab your Jatalo bag full of your specific type of seed bombage, have your Falling Whistle ready at your lips, (don't forget your Charity: water Kor delta bottle of water), and now with your choice of WeWood, you're more than ready (and guaranteed to be super punctual as well) to save the planet Earth- Captain Planet style... remember that show?.







Pictures of my WeWood will be posted soon :)




Harvest Fail...

Remember all those crops I planted? yeah so this was definitely a "first year farmer" experience. Some crops were beautiful, some crops never were, and some crops were taken out by Moribear before their time :(

Tomatoes: destroyed in their green with not even a chance to cry for their lives. Mori discovered that he rather liked the tartness of green tomatoes. Two today, three tomorrow.. an entire bush vine of tomatoes annihilated in less than a month. There were only three survivors who later became amazing tomato basil pasta sauce in memory of their late vine siblings. Next year, vines will need to be Mori-proofed before he realizes what the tomato plants are. Challenge accepted.

he's doing it again.... contemplating which one will be dinner...

Eggplants: my mom's were singled out by Mori for early devouring. We never even saw them pass. Each morning we would wake up to realize one had been taken in the night. But who? But how?? They weren't even ready..... only pieces of soft purple flesh and bits of stem could be recovered... littering the sleeping place of the monster.

Luckily, he hasn't figured out where my eggplants are growing. So they are in hiding and steadily growing. They're a bit late for the season but they are survivors. They will be delicious.





Frig peppers: also late, also surviving. Will report back once tasted.

Rhubarb looked to be dying but bounced back full force! It has made a healthy recovery and will be ready for pies and co. come next summer. Leaves are big, stalks are red; expecting a nice harvest next year.

Cucumbers: ducked out early on. Seemed to be getting with the crew but decided they wanted to go elsewhere. Hopefully we will be revisited for lemon cucumbers next year.

Bok Choy: was amazing. Those things were relentless. Grow ANYWHERE seriously. they were nice, juicy, and very crisp- most disgustingly, full of earwigs. I absolutely hate earwigs. {shudder} but the harvest was good, and was shared with all.

Strawberries were dropped like dominos one by one. Every time one turned red, it was disappeared into the maw of Morizilla. By the time July rolled around to start having some nice ones, he was definitely big enough to start poking his nose into the little berry bush. It was all over from there.

My purple snaps yielded much... but they were not so yummy. I think next year I will have to strategize better.

Artichokes.... out of six, three remain. Technically four but the one is off on its own and winter survival is highly unlikely. The other three i will protect with utmost care. If i can just save ONE......

Nectarines were amazing this year- pruning is the key!!!
Plums are still on the tree: They look pretty good, decent yield, fairly sweet. Should be ready here soon..

Potatoes blue and red: surprisingly I had a lot of little potatolings!! but i confess, i didn't keep up with my vertical potato planting so that's all I had... potatolings. however they're perfect for planting next year and I now know, the location was an ill choice for these particular babies.

Sweet potatoes: well well.... the vines were amazingly lush. I would grow sweet potatoes just for their aesthetic appeal as the little tubers grow. I have yet to unearth and see whether any potatoes grew underneath. Meh... that's not as heartbreaking for me, they were beautiful to see grow. Plus my tomato vines and the sweet potatoes are literally choking each other out. we'll see who the victors are!

So many others didn't make it :( Too little sun, too much water, too much sun, too little water, random torrential rains, giant starving monster... What's left is left and I'm glad to have had the little that I got and next year I will be prepared. Strawberries on the fence- HIGH on the fence!

Day 5

This is my best friend ... took me over a month to capture the essence.

Bovine Envy

STOP WATCHING THE HONEY BADGER VIDEO!!!

my problem is...

I always stop and obsess over recipes that are dips or casseroles of some kind! Why why why!? there's only two in my house who will eat anything i make therefore considering dips are not adequate sources of nutrition and sustenance and casseroles require multiple days of eating the same thing or multipe people of eating it once, neither kind of recipes are practical choices for me.