Monday, July 13, 2009

Tomato Bugs!!!!!!

So, Dustin was taking care of our tomato plants this evening and noticed that one of our smaller tomato plants had half of its leaves missing. I jokingly said that it was probably a tomato bug...and lo and behold...it really was! We saw this Tomato Hornworm munching away on our tomato plant getting nice and fat.



Dustin was not happy....


Then...we found another one on the bigger tomato plant which had already produced tomatoes. We read online that these Tomato Hornworms can eat an entire tomato plant in a day or two! I'm glad Dustin caught them before they did too much damage.









So, now we are being a little bit more observant about our plants and hopefully, these will make it to the new house.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Closing in two weeks!

Hi everyone!

Well, Dustin and I finally have everything situated with the new house. We close two weeks from today on July 24th! Scary! It finally hit me today and then I realized that I haven't even started packing yet!

We have so much to do...and much of it is just changing our address and setting up utilities! Yuck! I hate doing stuff like that because it's so tedious.

We're so excited though and can't wait to finally have a yard for Herby to run around in, privacy, and no rent!...except we will have a helfty mortgage payment. :) Believe me, we are going to have a crazy house warming party on that huge deck.

We have been buying stuff for the house here and there. Our biggest purchase has been our new tempur-pedic bed. You gotta love those 4th of July sales. We aren't sleeping on it yet because we are moving shortly and don't want to have to try to move it when it's not in its packaging. So, it is being stored over in Erik's second garage.

Dustin starts his radar class in August and will hopefully be fully certified by the end of the year or early next year. Yeah! The museum is staying busy with summer. Our newest gallery Take Me There: Egypt and the traveling exhibit King Tutankhamen have brought in a lot of visitors. I have met a lot of people from the surrounding states and even some from Europe who have come to see the new exhibits.

Keep us in your thoughts as we begin the process of moving our junk from one house to another. Everyone...have a great weekend!