I would be lying if I said we didn’t think about our garden this past weekend.  We were out of town and this was the first time leaving it alone.  We watered heavily the day we left, just to make sure nothing died of heat stroke – since it was 90-95 the week before. 

The good thing was the fact that Friday & Saturday it was supposed to be 90 or so again, so we knew it would help some of the plants still struggling from our strange weather patterns and of course the transplant process itself.

The bad thing… well Sunday morning when I woke up I checked the weather online in our area and it was 42 with light rain.  What!?!  It was 90 when we left… welcome to West Texas weather.  We had a 4-5 hour drive back, so we left early to make it back… don’t bring it up, Shala is still pissed at me about it.

Seriously… you better not bring it up. haha

When we got home, the weather had gotten just a tad better, it was probably 55-60 or so, with cloud cover.  We had caught a bit of rain in the morning it seemed, but for the most part everything seemed to be alive and well.  In fact, when we started walking through the garden we realized that everything seemed to have had a great time while we were away.  Lots of things changed, and so we snapped some pics to show off.  Enjoy.

If you want, check our our photo stream at flickr.  Be our friend if you want.  We won’t bite.  Hard.

This little guy (black diamond watermelon) has been above ground about a week.

Huskey Tomato producing now.  There is 3 tomatoes on there now, with several blooms.

These are the “World’s Smallest Tomatoes”, or at least that is what they say.  3 on this one as well.

The squash we planted from seed are really coming alive now.

These were not even above ground when we left… now they are 3-4 inches tall.

This Hibiscus is doing awesome, remember when we first took it’s picture?

Cucumber is doing awesome also, lots of sun, lots of water.

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Here we are, rejuvenated and all that.  Ready to get back on the grind and work our little butts off to try and catch up again.  We had a great time in Ruidoso, which isn’t a real surprise since we always tend to.  That is why we go!  Ruidoso offers an awesome retreat for West Texas folks, since it has mountains and cool weather. 

We stayed at the Black Bear Lodge, which is a bed & breakfast in the Upper Canyon.  The room was nice, HUGE bed and a two man… err two person jacuzzi tub in each room.  Oh yeah.  Overall we were pretty pleased with it, and would recommend anyone heading to Ruidoso to check it out.

While there we snapped a few pics and felt like we needed to share them with you guys… since you are nosey as hell, and thats why we like you.  So see below for a few pics from the weekend.

The bed that we both did not want to leave.  The picture does it little justice, you could lay on it sideways without your feet hanging off.

The tub.  Better than ours at home – barely.

I promise I was excited – I just don’t show it in pictures.

This is between Ruidoso & Roswell – seemed pretty at the time.  Kinda brown.

11 deer in one picture – right off one of the main roads.  Very cool.

Think that is Bambi, I don’t remember cinder blocks in the book though.

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Shala & I are heading out this morning to Ruidoso, NM in hopes of losing ourselves in the mountains for a few days.  We find Ruidoso a very relaxing retreat – so we are pretty pumped about it.  We will be back at it on Monday – we just wanted everyone to know we were not just slackers… we are slackers on a mini-vacay.

The reason for the trip?

Saturday is our 5th wedding anniversary.

Pretty cool eh?  We think so.  We are going to be putting together an article on “Why 5 Years is Kind Of A Big Deal These Days” when we get back – so keep your eyes peeled for that one.

While we are gone – go check out some of the folks on our blog roll for a good read.  We trust you will.

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