Rain, rain go away...

And don't come back until October.

Farmer Lia

For some reason I got it into my head this year that I wanted to save money by growing veggies.  Me.  The person with the black thumb.  Yeah.  Right!

There are reasons I have always wanted to live on a tree farm/wooded lot.  I am allergic to most things green including grass, ash trees, mold and mildew and everything I try to grow tends to die a horrid and painful death.  

At least until a few years ago anyway.  For some reason the plants I got after one of my surgeries during my 4 years of surgeries actually lived.  Then an African violet lived.  And then some ivy and some other strange plants that I don't know the names of.  With the proof that not every living thing I touch dies I decided to try my hand at veggies.

That decision led to a trip to the nursery this past weekend where we purchased 2 poly containers, 6 bags of potting soil, a tomato plant, a squash plant, onions, two types of basil, lemon thyme and tarragon.  We whisked them home where we hurriedly potted all the plants only seconds before rain started.  Yay!

We didn't expect a monsoon!

And flooded containers with floating onions.

Whoops!

Thus were born the garbage bag umbrellas which now shelter the two delicate containers of our mid-summer veggies and believe it or not they seem to be working!  Somehow they have grown significantly since Saturday which is good because I am so looking forward to having fresh tomatoes and squash flavored with basil or tasty chicken seasoned with lemon thyme.

Yum!

If today were your last day...

Two things bring this to mind.  First - I watched the documentary Farrah Fawcett put together with her best friend and her SO Ryan O'Neal over the past two years about living with and dying with cancer.  Second - I was listening to a song by Nickelback "If Today Was Your Last Day."

Either way - they come with a question.

If today was your last day, how would you live it?

So - that is my question to you, and I really want to know the answer.  You can send it directly to me - it may go out in something in the future, perhaps a website or book to help those fighting with cancer or other traumatic diseases - but names would not be used unless you want them to be.  The creation of a website and/or printing of a book all depends on whether or not we can get a few last day descriptions.  Here's what I am looking for:

A description.

A sentence.

A photo.

A screen capture.

A story.

In other words - anything that can translate to a 2D medium.

You can reach me by private message via this blog, or on twitter - @Liadona.

I really am interested.  More details coming as I figure out the details.

Thanks!!!