Jesse

My brother and sister-in-law weren't incredibly pleased with their wedding photos (Plus, it rained that day, so they weren't able to do outdoor photos as originally planned.) So, they asked Jesse to take some for them. And as always, the man does good work. These are a few of my favorites so far as I am editing.




I think this last one might be my favorite favorite.

Another Favor

I need to do a data analysis assignment, which means I need some data! If you feel like helping me out, follow the link below, take one (or both) of the tests, and then post your results in the comments section (and if you post an anonymous comment with your results, that is fine, but just please state your gender and race with it since I will need that data - or you can e-mail me if you'd rather not post your data in the comments section). Each test only takes a couple minutes. They are really quick.

There are 2 "implicit association" tests here - one about gender and one about race. Each is designed to uncover hidden biases. (Don't worry about sounding racist or sexist if you get high results...the majority of people will reveal some sort of bias.) For me, I show a "strong" bias for associating males with careers and females with family (which sucks for a feminist!!), and I show a "slight" preference for European Americans over African Americans. So there you have it, there are my unconscious biases.

Click here to go to the tests.

Just General Stuff

I can hardly believe October is already winding down. The holidays are sneaking up on me. Pretty soon, I will have to get all of our Christmas decorations out of the attic. Cold weater has a strange way of making me think about house projects. I guess summer keeps me busy outside, so I think about yard projects, then when it gets cold, I start looking around for what else we can do inside. I think the next two projects on the list are new windows and converting the garage to another bed/bath (and then eventually moving the driveway as well). Of course, whether or not either of those get done in the next year depends on how our tax return comes out... However, if early February rolls around and I start blogging about what home project we are going to do, please call me names and leave me dirty notes in the comments section. We promised ourselves we'd wait to do any house project/spend tax refunds until we know for sure what I am doing about grad school. Which makes sense. But it's not very fun.

Anyway, speaking of grad school and job stuff, it looks like Jesse may not be taking a leave of absence after all. When he applied for it, they were saying yes definitely, and then the various supervisors either misfiled the paperwork, or just ignored the request all together, and getting follow up has been really difficult... it's been nearly a month that we've been waiting, and in the meantime, two other employees have quit, which means they are now short on staff going into a major travel season, and it's unlikely they'll be willing to approve a leave. Who knows... it's not the most organized place in the world, but at this point, we are just kind of assuming the leave isn't going to happen, which pretty much puts us back where we started.

As for my job, it's going pretty well. I've been doing a lot of graphic design work as of late, which is always fun. I think I may try to pick up something alongside my regular job and work seasonally as well though. Discounts for Christmas shopping and a little extra cash sounds like a good plan to me. Although I don't really have much retail experience, so we'll see if anyone will hire me!

Horton's rash is finally going down. This vet decided to give him the pill version instead of the shot because the dosage could be better controlled. He still has a few more days on them. The vet listed/warned us about various side effects the pills may have, and I'm glad she did, because otherwise I might be a bit worried. For one, he pees all the time on these pills. And he is also much more excitable than usual, which has been interesting. A couple weeks ago, we had started a little exercise routine together (as in, I do jumping jacks or sit ups while watching tv, and Horton thinks it looks like fun, so he trots all around me and wags his tail all happy and I tell him good boy.) It's generally been fun, but since he started the pills, it has become too much fun for him (as in he tries to hump me while I exercise). The pills are basically straight steroids, so I guess it all makes sense, but needless to say, until the pills are out of his system, I exercise alone.

Abe is just his ancient self. I think he might be starting to lose bladder control now too. Mainly in the mornings, after he's been holding it all night, he tries to make it outside, but it's been getting harder for him. You just clean it up and go on... not much else you can do. You can tell that he is trying and that he knows where he is supposed to go, but his body just won't cooperate sometimes. All in all though, he still seems to be happy and mentally alert, so as long as he isn't in pain, then we are good. He does tug on my heart though. I just tell God all the time that I can't handle ever having to choose whether or not to put him down, so I ask that when it's his time, he can just go peacefully in his sleep, knowing that I love him and it's okay to let go.

Okay, let's think about happy things now.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are on their way. I got to wear a scarf twice this week. I heart Obama and elections are coming up. The house is clean. I have a bag of Dove dark chocolate. Mmmm. The leaves are so pretty. I could have a big cup of chai this evening. Jesse was super awesome to me all week long and gave me all kinds of fun surprises like notes and fall candles. All the leftover ham from Canadian Thanksgiving is finally gone. We have a new furnace that runs so much better than the old one. We got our "mini replica" brick that looks like our real brick that is going into the fountain at the U of N. And best of all, that gives us a really good excuse to someday go back to Kona. =) Ahhhh...life is good.

A Favor

If you are reading this and you have a free minute, I would be super happy and very grateful if you would click on the link below, which will send you to a contest for America's favorite animal shelter. Cast a vote for "Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter". The shelter with the most votes gets some cash. Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter (aka: FOPAS) is the shelter that I walk dogs at and I love this place so much! No kill shelter that is almost 100% volunteer run. Those pups get walks every single morning and every single evening, every single day of the year, and receive full medical care, no matter how major. I have never seen a shelter that takes such good care of the animals before. (Also, here's another plug for anyone who lives in the area - if you ever have old blankets, sheets, or bath towels that you need to get rid of, the shelter can really use them.) Anyway, click and vote and thank you thank you!

Are You Kidding Me!?!

Props to Dale for this video clip.

I don't even know what to say about this - seriously just disturbing ignorance on too many levels to count.



And poor John McCain. If his running mate didn't make his campaign look ignorant enough, it seems his supporters will gladly finish that job. (Not that McCain did himself any favors by implying that Arabs aren't decent family men.)

Surely humanity must be better than this. When will people get it - we are all the same....the exact same.

Better Late Than Never

We finally had our Thanksgiving! Jesse is feeling a lot better, but still has another week or so before his cough is totally gone. Anyway, I put the camera on the table in the living room to remind myself to take some pictures while people were here... and then I forgot all about it. But, we did snap a couple "before" and "after" pictures at least.

Me setting the table... Jesse wearing as much Canadian propaganda as possible. Also, showing me the Canadian themed drinks we bought - Molsen Canadian, and some wine brand called 3 moose because we thought that was a fun, Canadiany kind of name (or at least I did).
Throughout the afternoon, Jesse had a lot of drinks, and then later on, he and another friend busted out the whiskey. After everyone left, I was teasing him, and saying that I was surprised he wasn't feeling (or acting) loopy at all. I told him that I needed him to walk a line for me and touch his nose, at which point he immediately started stumbling around and acting like a drunk, so this is him giving me his best drunk pose. Anyway, for the record, he seemed more buzzed when he and his mother shared some world class margaritas one time when she down visiting.
To all our Canadian family and friends, wish we could have celebrated with you here as well!

Just Every Day Stuff

Well, we are not eating yummy Thanksgiving food with friends right now as planned. Jesse has bronchitis, so we decided to reschedule for next weekend. We also found out he is allergic to cefuroxime (an antibiotic). On top of bronchtis, he is now also itching with a rash thanks to the reaction. So, no bactrim for me and no cefuroxime for him... I should write that down somewhere so I don't forget. Anyway, Jesse has been pretty much confined to the couch for the last few days. I have been making Redbox runs for him and today I cleaned the house, washed all the bedding, and went crazy with the Lysol.

Sickness has been the big event as of late...otherwise, not really much to blog about. They came and installed the new furnace, so the house is officially ready for winter now (though I don't think I am). We also went and ordered some new glasses for Jesse before his vision plan at work runs out. They should be in sometime this week. We still don't really know what is going on with his leave of absence. We just know he should definitely be able to get it, but we don't know when it starts or for how long it is approved for.

Horton is sitting by me, and like Jeses, he is also covered in a rash. Poor dog. We think he may have developed a new allergy because we are having trouble figuring out what is setting this round off. I think we will have to get him a cortisone shot. We try not to do that when he breaks out, but if it goes on for too long or gets really bad, it seems to be the only thing that can bring him relief. He has started itching his hair off in some spots and I feel so bad for him. Abe has to go in for his annual shots this month anyway, so I am going to take them both to the vet this week.

I had finals on Thursday, so I have this coming week off and then it's back for the Fall II semester. Only 3 of these mini-semesters left. That's good stuff.

Well, I guess that's about all of the stuff happening around here. Maybe next post will be more exciting.

My First Ever Political Rally

Tonight, I went to my first political rally. Michelle Obama was in town, so I wanted to hear her speak. It was an interesting experience. I was surprised that as they began, a singer came out and her first song was something about "praise the Lord, praise the Lord"...and then next came some song from camp that I don't care for the tune all that much, you know that song, "You came from heeeeaven to earth...to shooooowwwwww the way...from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky, Lord I lift your name on high" - that one. Anyway, religious marketing at its finest in my opinion. Then came little talks by local politicians, which were in all honesty, pretty lame because they were all just hype and very little fact or anything. Then of course, the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem, and then a prayer, which was also some very fine religious marketing, as the reverend prayed to the Lord and mentioned "all of the people from different religions" and something about us all being "God's people". I just thought it was really ironic that everything had a decidely "Christian" tone, but this little phrase thrown in there made the people happy. To me, it seemed more insulting to those who don't believe in Christianity that someone would even act like it would be okay to have such blatently Christian things and then pretend as if it's actually representing all belief systems, because it clearly wasn't. Anyway, I was getting kind of miffed over it all, because there was just no substance it seemed like - it was like hoorah hoorah blah blah blah.

Then finally Michelle Obama came out, and thank God she did, because it would have been a cheap experience otherwise. I enjoyed her speech, and she seemed to be one of the only sincere things within miles. She offered a nice mix of personal experience and facts during her speech, and my personal favorite part was when a lady up toward the stage passed out and Michelle Obama just totally stopped the speech and was like "We've got a lady down here! Can we get an EMT and some water?!" and after all the commotion, the lady must have been okay, and Michelle Obama offered some humor about how many times she's fallen over to make the lady feel better. Anyway, while I heard the speech loud and clear, I could barely see a thing besides the back of the people's heads that were in front of me. I wasn't really too far from the main stage, but being only 5'2 (on a good day) didn't really help me out any. I think at one point, I may have seen Michelle Obama's shoulder. I am pretty sure that had I stayed at the rally after her speech, I would have been able to see her up close and personal as she was mingling with the crowd, but I didn't really want to stick around too much later because I was hungry and my back hurt from standing the whole time. Wimp, I know.

Anyway, here's a few pics, though they just basically show a crowd...which is what I stared at for two and a half hours...



Here, I was trying to get a shot of me in my political propaganda for Jesse because he so thoughtfully bought me this shirt. But, I didn't really get much of the shirt in there...I tried a couple times and then stopped because I felt stupid taking pictures of myself. But, for the record, I am wearing some very fine political propaganda.
So, final concensus - would I attend another rally? Yes, but I'd show up late so that I could skip the hype and go straight to the main event.

Help me...

So, this year for Canadian Thanksgiving, I asked Jesse if he would want me to throw a dinner party with some friends to celebrate, and I think that is the plan. Not everyone that we are inviting knows each other though, and I don't want there to be any awkward/weird silences or just general weird lame party tension. So, I'm trying to think of ideas that would prevent that all together, or at the very least, be a back up should the feared silence fall on us. I'm thinking about things like easy to play games that help you get to know people (i.e. not board games, but more like ice breaker games, but not like youth group ice breaker games, know what I mean?) or favors that reveal something about the person...things like that. So, with that being said - anyone have any ideas???

1943

In 1943 Transportation Magazine ran an article to help employers during World War II. Of course, during this time, many men were overseas, so companies were being "forced" to look at the female candidates. I thought you might enjoy some of their very enlightening suggestions:

*Retain a physician to give each woman you hire a special physical examination - one covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibilites of lawsuit, but reveals whether the employee-to-be has any female weaknesses, which would make her mentally or physically unfit for the job.

*When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at some time in their lives. Older women who have never contacted the public have a hard time adapting themselves and are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy...

*Be tactful when issuing instructions or in making critcism. Women are often sensitive; they can't shrug off harsh words the way men do. Never ridicule a woman - it breaks her spirits and cuts off her efficiency.

And here comes my personal favorite -

*Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day. You have to make some allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick, and wash her hands several times a day.

Randomness

I should be working on a paper right now, but my brain revolts every time I begin reading another journal article scouring facts and figures. So for now, I'll blog.

It's been a busy, busy month, so this will probably be totally random with all of the stuff that I should have blogged earlier. Here we go -

Jesse's mom and step-dad were here over the weekend and I can't believe, I didn't take one single photo! I had been planning to get a good family photo with all of them, but the camera never even made it out of the bag. Besides that sad fact, the trip was really good. Fast, but good. We introduced Ray to Chipotle and Sonic, and are still currently eating our weight in Canadian candy.

I started volunteering at an animal shelter as a dog-walker a month or so ago and it's been pretty cool so far, though there are many dogs that I really want to bring home with me. Saturday, I went to one of the shelter's annual fundraisers with my mom, Horton, and Abe. Abe actually walked close to 2 miles without his back legs giving out at all. I was quite impressed. And Horton was his usual social self, happy as ever. Since working at the shelter, I have learned that big, black dogs are the hardest to adopt out. I've seen week after week, the little dogs get adopted out so quickly, while the same big ones remain at the shelter. At least this shelter treats them very well and will keep them as long as necessary to find them a home. Any stray should be so lucky as to end up at this particular place over another one. I think that is the only thing that keeps me from crying when I go there, or from desperately trying to find a way to adopt more and bring them home with me.

Fall is in the air, which makes me happy. I have gotten to light cinnamon candles and make apple crisp twice. Plus, Canadian Thanksgiving is only 22 days away!

Elections are also coming up, which is also super exciting. I am very happy to have a front row seat for one of US history's most exciting elections ever. No matter what party wins, we will have a minority in one of the two highest positions. Of course, I have to admit, I will be disappointed if Obama doesn't win. Very disappointed.

Our furnace is officially dead. It died last spring, but we thought it was just this coil thing that needed to be replaced, so Jesse replaced it a couple weeks ago, but it was still broken, so we had a guy out and he told us that the exchanger part has a crack and could leak carbon monoxide at any time, so he wouldn't even look at it further. He basically just said we need to get a new one. So, Jesse's been calling around getting quotes on new furnaces. Right before vacation, Jesse also noticed a leak in the hot water heater, but thankfully, it turned out to just be a broken valve that will be a quick and pretty inexpensive fix. The rest of the house seems to be functioning normally, but nonetheless, things around here are keeping us busy...like the dead tree in the front yard that has been needing to be cut down for months...or the sealant that has been needing to be put on the deck since spring...or the weeds growing in the driveways cracks...or or or...

Jesse is looking at different work options, possibly an educational leave of absence. We are in the middle of figuring out all of that, but hopefully by Christmas, things will be a little less hectic with the schedule. My work is going well, so I imagine that unless something major changes, I will be there at least until I graduate (which is about 243 days or so...not that anyone is keeping track...). I'm still debating about post-graduation options. There are so many positives and negatives to the paths I'm considering, it's hard to decide. I hope time will make things more clear - and I'm sure that if time doesn't make it clear, then rejection letters will. =)

So that is that for now. Lots of exciting changes on the horizon, both in the next few weeks and the next few months.

Vacation

We got back from vacation last night and were both feeling pretty tired. It was a lot of fun, but always too short. Now it's back to reality...broken furnaces, flooded crawl spaces, issues with hot water heaters, work, and school. =) More on those topics later - for now, we'll just think about the fun stuff. My pictures are, once again, totally out of order. Sorry. One of these days I will get a better system. Until then, I'll just make notes under each photo.

This is Jesse at The Wilderness Lodge. We had lunch here one day and just walked around the grounds. Pretty and peaceful there.
That's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the background. It's one of the roller coaster rides at Magic Kingdom.
Jesse was very happy to get his photo with Buzz Lightyear. They were showing me their manly muscles.
This is on the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin ride, one of Jesse's favorites. It's actually a kiddie ride, but we like it anyway because your cart has little guns where you shoot at targets and it tracks your points. It also has a control in the middle so you can spin your cart to throw the other person off. Jesse usually wins, but I have to say, I gave him some good competition this year.
This is right outside the front door of our room. We stayed at Port Orleans Riverside this year. It was really nice, but I think we both prefer the place we stayed at last year.
This is back at Wilderness Lodge...just out of order!
Here's Jesse waiting for my favorite 3d show - It's Tough to Be a Bug.
Me on the safari. I think there must be some animals way back there that you can't see in the photo very well.
Shaka from Jesse! This is at Ohana - by far the best place we ate, and probably the best dining experience of my life. We had really good service and the food was great. Plus we got sat at a table where we had an amazing view (that you obviously can't see in this photo). I don't think anything could have been more perfect. (Except maybe the entertainment... a very interesting lady.)
Main Street USA (aka - the street you walk down as you enter into Magic Kingdom.)
This was our last day there. We swam, rented a sea raycer, took it easy.
This is the Boardwalk. It's a really nice little area. We ate dinner here one evening and spent some time just walking around.
That's Expedition Everest in the background. I rode it by myself last year, and vowed to never set foot on it again, as I thought I was going to have a heart attack. But, it does make a nice backdrop for photos! It's at Animal Kingdom, which is our favorite of the Disney parks.
Out of order, but this is when we were on the sea raycer. We were trying to "park" it in the middle of the lake to get a photo with the castle in the background, but it never quite fully worked.
And this was our last morning there... Jesse was making fun of my self-photos because my arm is so much shorter than his, it always cuts off his head when I hold the camera.

Puppy Update

Puppy's name is Cheyenne, and she is back home now. Whoo hoo! I am very glad. She was a hand full and this morning, starting around 4:00am, she decided it would be better to whine and bark at me until I got out of bed and turned on all the lights and stayed up with her. And of course, Abe decided that was a good idea too, because it was thundering outside. Not how I wanted to start my week. Oh well. I'm just really glad that we were able to finally find her owner. And the owner was very happy when Jesse called, so warm fuzzies for happy endings.

Moral of the story: Everyone who owns a dog, go invest five bucks and put your phone number on their collar.

Wedding Weekend

My brother got married this weekend, so I have a whole slew of photos. They are in kind of mixed up order, but you can probably figure it out. The first few are from the rehearsal dinner.

























This next photo is seemingly unrelated. On our way home from the reception, we had just turned onto one of the more major streets, and we saw this dog running across the road just trotting around everywhere. It was rainy and it was pretty obvious that she didn't belong to any of the houses right near by, but she had a collar and tags, so we stopped, thinking we could find a phone number on her tag and call her owner to get her back home. Unfortunately, her tags don't have phone numbers on them. So, we waited there for a while and Jesse kind of trotted along with her to see if she seemed like she knew where she was going (back home hopefully), but it didn't seem she really knew what direction she was heading in, and we were really afraid she would get hit by a car if we just left her. We tried to call animal control to see if they could match the number on her tag to the owner, but since it was late on a Saturday night, they were closed. After some debating, we decided to load her up and bring her back home with us until we could track down the owner. We just didn't want to leave her out in the rain, especially on a busy street at night. Anyway, so she slept here last night, and we've been calling around trying to find someone who could connect her tag numbers with her owners and posting online that we've found her, but no such luck with getting her owner yet. Jesse even took her to the emergency vet today to have her scanned for a microchip, but she doesn't have one. So, now we are just sort of waiting. Tomorrow morning we should be able to get animal control, and hopefully they will be able to look up her owners, so the plan is to have her back to wherever she belongs tomorrow. She's still in a puppy stage, so it's not exactly convienient to have her here, especially since we already have two big dogs, but we just didn't know what else to do with her. So for now, we have 3 dogs in the house and are praying it will be back down to just our two boys by tomorrow evening. Hopefully this little lady will be back home soon! We've just been calling her "puppy", so at any given time in our house right now, you can hear "No, no puppy!" "Get off, puppy!" "Stop that, puppy!" "Come on, puppy!" Horton and Abe are being very hospitable though. We are trying to give them some extra attention, especially Abe, because I think he may be a little bit put off. Anyway, here's "puppy":

Good Memories

This is South Point, and believe it or not, I jumped off this cliff a few times, right where that wooden board is (just up the distance from the red hoist).




I remember the first time, standing at the top, looking down and thinking a million things. I wonder how deep I will plunge into the water. I wonder how long it will take to swim back to the top. I wonder how strong those waves are. How can I be sure there are no rocks where I am jumping? What if there are sharks? Count to three and just do it. If you don't jump on three, you'll never jump. And then I counted to three and jumped, and when I stopped plunging downward in the water, I swam as fast and hard as I could back toward the top. I am not sure if I would do it again, as each passing year seems to make me keenly more aware of how very much I have, and as such, how very much I have to lose. It makes me not quite as adventerous as I once was, which may be a good thing. At the same time, in my current life of working, taking care of the house, and going to school, I miss the adventure. I want another risk. Not necessarily one that involves jumping off cliffs, but just a little excitement would be nice. Since I was 18, I moved every year, (at least once, if not more), except for the past 2 or so years. Maybe somewhere in all the moving and changing, I somehow became slightly addicted to the thrill of starting new.

I don't know what all the future holds. I know things will be changing this spring once I graduate, and I know what I want the changes to be, but I don't know if they are the changes that will actually happen or if they are the changes God wants. I know I will feel a sense of let down should my hopes not happen, as to me they seem exciting and full of adventure and the alternative seems so ho hum.

I don't know what "settling down" really means. And I'm not talking location necessarily. I just mean life in general. It seems like I do everything I can, whether consciously or unconsciouly, to prevent whatever "settling down" is, from happening to me. Maybe part of why I avoided college for so long was because I associate it with the settling. And now that I'm coming up on graduation in a few months, I'm worried that life will sit me down and finally tell me my adventures are over.

And I don't want them to be over.

Biscuits and Gravy

I have found vegetarian bliss. This morning I made some biscuits and gravy. I used Morningstar "sausage patties" and I swear, I could not tell the difference. I actually went and pulled the package back out to read the ingredients to make sure there was no meat in it. I didn't have high hopes this morning because most of the recipes I have made or the store-bought stuff I have tried was no where close - it was just pretty much gross or weird textury. But now, I finally have a sausage replacement!!! This may not seem like a big deal to all you meat eaters, but trust me, this is big in my little vegetable patch world. We can have sausage lasagna, sausage in soup, sausage on pizza, so many options!

Now if only I would have read my biscuit recipe correctly...4 teaspoons of baking powder, not baking soda...

Running Total: Garden Savings Update

10 lbs tomatoes @ 3.29/lb = 32.90
1 lb cherry tomatoes @ 3.99/lb = 3.99

Total Garden Value As of Today = 241.88

Underwear Says It All

Sociology classes comprise a large part of my core curriculum, so I'm in a lot of them. I generally find them to be fascinating. But, there is one instructor who makes me go beyond fascinated to being absolutely in love with issues in sociology. He is so opinionated and brings all his (very extreme) views into the classroom. It gets me fired up everytime. Anyway, this week we've started discussing a bit about how physical beauty affects status inequality. There are a million points to be made, but of course, the conversation naturally folds into the genders. I always try to include examples in my discussions because, well, I don't know why, but I do. So I was going through thinking about examples to help drive my point home - ah, that's why I do examples...to prove how right I am. =) Anyway, this week, I settled on the example of Target stores. Picture the inside of Target from a bird's eye view. You'll notice that space devoted to how a woman looks is at least 75% larger than space devoted to how a man looks. We've got 3 or so aisles of makeup, we've got a jewelry counter (with minimal pieces geared toward men), the purses/accessories section, the shoes (with maybe 25% devoted to men), and then when you look at the clothing sections, the women's side is probably double the floor space. BUT - this is the best part of the example. Look at the underwear. For the men, we have a few display boards within the clothing section. For the women, we have a separate section devoted entirely to underwear. Not only that, we have underwear that enhances, lifts, firms, tucks, and generally promises to make the body better. It's socially acceptable for companies to suggest that women should/need to change the shape of their bodies - They should buy padded bras if they are too small-chested, but ope, don't get too big, otherwise, you'll need a minimizer bra. And don't have a flat butt, but definitely purchase some Spanx if there is too much junk in that trunk. And this is acceptable...this is normal.

So what do you think would happen if Hanes started marketing padded boxer-briefs, or for the well-endowed, briefs that minimize? Do you think men with beer bellies would buy waist cinchers? No, no, no...we laugh at either situation because it seems preposterous to suggest that a man would go to such lengths to alter his figure in public.

But - I didn't hear much laughter the last time a padded bra made the register beep.

Running Total: Garden Savings Update

6 lbs tomatoes @ 3.29/lb = 19.74
1 lb cherry tomatoes @ 3.99/lb = 3.99
9 oz. basil @ 2.79 for .66 oz = 38.05
.5 lbs green beans = 1.20

Total Garden Value As of Today = 204.99

Running Total: Garden Savings Update

3 lbs cherry tomatoes @ 3.99/lb = 11.97

Total Garden Value As of Today = 142.01