Did we mention we had a contest, and you should enter if you haven’t arleady… its easy and you get free stuff… come on! 

We decided to really load up in terms of peppers in the garden this year.  We love peppers and they are kind of cool because there are so many different kinds and they all have their own feel & flavor.

With our peppers finally producing at the moment… we are seeing new stuff left and right (literally, since they are on both sides).  We have pulled a handfull of banana peppers already, we have pulled some small jalapenos as well.  We are waiting for our hot portugals to go red - and we will be yanking some of those too.

This past week we had our first bell peppers start to poke their little butts out and so hopefully within a few weeks we will have one or two of those fresh from the garden.  I know that makes Shala happy.  We have two anaheims on the plant we saved from its doom at Ace hardware and our santiago hybrid pepper plant (that was grown from seed) is one of our biggest plants (as far as peppers go). 

We have some nice sized jalapenos on our two jalapeno plants finally, was wondering if we were going to be able to pull it off or not. Since mulching this last time… everything has seemed to grow quite a bit.

We are looking for some nice salsa recipes, since we have some onions… we are about to pull some tomatoes for the first time this year and of course we have more peppers than we know what to do with.  Does anyone have some great salsa recipes?  We are from Texas, so we are asking around as well… we have made some in the past - but hell if we can find the recipe we used. haha  Figures.

Here is a recipe for you pepper growers out there… how to make the perfect armadillo eggs.

Deb shared one of her recipes for hot sauce, but I am looking for something for dipping… you know what I’m saying?  Thanks Deb.

If you do, share it already… geeeeez.  Quit being so stingey (did I spell that right?).

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You thought we wouldn’t exploit our harvest yet again?  This week we had a bit more harvested, as you can see in the picture below. 

Are we seeing an upward trend?  haha

Wouldn’t take much would it?

As you can see, 3 more squash, a handfull of okra and some banana peppers.  Not the biggest haul in all the land… but getting bigger nonetheless.

You can also see a few onions that are tiny - they were left from our other onion harvest, and just never really took off.  Oh well - figured we would pull them and use them in something… might as well eh?

How’s your garden growing?  Any big hauls we should know about?  Any we shouldn’t?

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We are having a contest… you did know that right?  Free stuff anyone?  Get over there and participate!

Moving on…

So we have kind of kept our personal lives (minus the gardening and constant BBQs of course) under wraps, however we like you guys and gals… so we are planning on sharing more and more as our blog grows.  Aren’t you special.  We promise to not fill our blog with constant posts about drama and nonsense… wait, we can’t promise the nonsense part.  There is a lot of nonsense in our lives at all time.  So you will have to deal with that.  We wanted to catch you guys up on what is going on currently in the life & times of Double Danger and some things coming down the pipe as well.

When Your House Is Not A Home

Many of you know we moved into our new house last November.  It was our first house and we loved it.  Still do.  Big backyard, which you have seen all the stuff we have going on back there… big kitchen… nice floors, HUGE master bath with an even HUGE-R (is that a word?) closet.  Great neighborhood.  Good schools.  All that crap.

Well, this past couple months we were basically told that the school directly across the street (we will not name that Christian private school because we are still talking) is planning on buying our block (facing and behind) and expanding the school.  Actually they want to build a parking lot.  A freakin’ parking lot.

We immediately freaked out a bit, then of course we got mad… then we started planning and accepting it.  Now for most of the block… this is a great move.  They have lived there for 10 years and are going to make 100k or more.  For us though, we have almost zero equity and were not planning on moving anytime soon so we have zero dollars for down payments and all that jazz.  Dumb of us, but still - who would have thunk it eh?

So now we are living in a house we know is basically not our home and we don’t want to do any improvements, hell it takes a lot to go out in the garden every day and make sure things are on the up and up.  Here we sit.  All that work on the backyard and they are going to “pave paradise, put up a parking lot”.  Only in the movies right?

We are in the early stages of negotiation, hopefully we will come out in a good place.  And don’t tell us… OH YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE A KILLING OFF THIS… it isn’t like that.  We wish it was.

No Country For Nerdy Men

Next weekend if your computer goes down, if your website will not let you comment… or you stats aren’t working - it is because it is that time of year again.  Nerds Unplugged is this coming Friday-Monday (Aug 15th-18th).  What is Nerds Unplugged?  A drunken good time, that is what.  haha

Nerds Unplugged is something that a few friends started about 4 years ago where they could get together - leave all the technology, code, software and broken printers of the world behind and relax.  This is the 4th year of Nerds Unplugged and we have grown 3 fold as far as how many people that are going.  Nerds tell their nerdy friends… then they tell their nerdy friends and here we are.  Nerds are like that.

So basically we spend the weekend on the lake… skiiing, wakeboarding, tube-ing, fishing, drinking and having a good time.  Late nights of poker playing, more drinking, lots of geek-talk and good food.  Lots of good friends and networking goes on and by the end we all feel ready to face the world of chaos that has gone on while we were gone.  Can you image what happens when you take all the world’s geeks are on vacation?  Ok - maybe not the entire world… but just the ones in our group. 

While we are gone, Shala is headed to her Grandmother’s to spend some quality time with her G-ma and also her cousin and her kids.  Once again, good food and good family and good times.  Oh… and her cousin, Charli, just started her own blog - check it out fellow bloggers (specially you ladies) and give her the support she needs to be one of “us”.  You know how hard it is to keep going when you first start out.  Check her out at Charli’s Bunch.

Cruise In T-minus 73 Days

Did we mention we are going on a cruise?  How did we fail to mention something as kickass as that?  Guess we have been too busy gettin’ kicked out of our house. ;)  Yup, October we will fly into Ft. Lauderdale - stay at the following place: Tropi Rock Resort.  We will stay there a night and then we are off on our cruise out of Miami.  We are cruisin’ with Carnival, because we are fun people that need a fun ship.  Or something.

Our cruise will take us to a few stops in the Bahamas and then also Turks & Caicos.  Then we will spend our time on beaches humping sting rays and trying not to get arrested for it.  Wait, that is how I will spend my time… everyone else will likely spend their time trying to pull me off the sting rays, or vice versa and keeping me from getting arrested in a foriegn country.  Should be fun right?  haha

Only kidding.  Half of that is true.  I do like sting rays.  I think.  But we can’t wait to get out there and snorkel and have a blast on the ship between ports.  Casinos… lounges… sun, pool, shopping for the ladies…  sign me up.  Oh and I’m freakin’ climbin’ that rockwall from the commercials.  Por favor believe it.

Just wanted to share with you, we are excited and ready to go.

Ok - so you should be caught up I think.  At least enough for us to tell you more in the future and you not be lost going…

“what do they mean sting rays?  humping what?”

You know what were saying.  ;)  Hope everyone has a safe & awesome weekend.  Anyone else have some good stuff going on, or bad stuff that they want to share… do so in the comments.  And go get involved in the contest, share if you can or will.

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Everyone likes free stuff, everyone wishes they could wake up on a Thursday morning and someone would give them free stuff.  Right?

Well… welcome to Thursday morning.

Now, we aren’t going to just give you guys free stuff just for waking up, you have to do a bit of legwork… not much though.  Not much at all.

There are actually a few ways you guys can win.  So here goes nothing…

Win 8 FREE songs from iTunes!

1.  Leave a comment here in this blog post and you are automatically entered into the drawing, only one comment though.  Yup, free freakin’ music for a comment.  Of course you can use them or your friends or whatever… but regardless you will have 8 songs from iTunes to download and use to your hearts content if your name is selected.  Cool eh?

2.  Add us to your blogroll or links in some way, shape or form and you will be entered a second time into the drawing.  Just for a link people… you link to our blog/website… you get a chance to win 8 songs from iTunes.  Awesome.  Only good for one entry - so don’t be trying to link to us 9 times on your blog.  If you already have us on your blogroll… just let us know via comment and your already in!  *hi-5*

Win an Aqua Globe! & 20$ Target Giftcard!

1.  This one isn’t an simple as the others, we are needing some help with a new tagline for our header, but we want you guys to be creative.  We want you to take a piece of paper or print something out… whatever your tagline suggestion is and take a picture of it in your garden or somewhere creative.  Post it on your blog or send it to us via email (doubledanger.com@gmail.com) and we will post it with the rest of them at the end of the contest.  Remember, be creative.  This one will be fun for everyone… as long as you make it fun.  You can write it down, use construction paper… do it with freakin’ macaroni if you want… whatever you think will seal the deal.   If you don’t have a garden to take the picture in… use your BBQ grill… or a landmark in your city… your kids… something funny - you know how we roll.  Just make it fun & creative.  Hell, you could take the picture in your office with a potted plant… we don’t care.  We will draw a winner out of all those that submit a picture, since we really can’t say who’s more creative than the next… and the winner will be sent a FREE aqua globe.  

2.  The best tagline (determined by us) will be featured up top in our header until the next contest.  We will also give you credit… of course.  When the contest ends, we will post all the entries with links to your blogs (if you have one) and give everyone the respect they deserve.  Oh… did we mention we will give you a $20 gift card to Target?  ;)  Just because we love you.  And your funny and write funny tag lines.

So get started… get going.  This contest will end August 18th.  We will post the winners that week and ship out the goods that week as well.  We would like to thank my Mother (Dianne) for donating a few items for this contest, that’s what Mom’s do sometimes… they donate to your internets-web-blogtastic-super-contest-spectacular.  Thanks Mom.

We would also like to thank Kathy over at Mama’s Losin’ It, she inspired us a while back and helped us a bit on coming up with ideas.  If you don’t read her, why not!?!?  She is funny and worth a daily read.  Get over there.

So get started already. 

If anyone has any quetions, feel free to ask.  Also… if you have a minute, share this contest on your blog.  We want as many folks involved as possible.  This is the first of many contests - so the more you spread the word, the more we are able to do these things.

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If nothing… we have always been honest.

This past week we harvested our first real harvest of the year.  Granted, we had pulled some peppers, but they were tiny and really I don’t count it.  Oh… and one squash.  But this is our first more than just one veggie harvest of the year, so we thought we would show it off.

It is tiny… but its a start of what I’m sure will be many HUGE harvests weekly.  Hell, we are just happy to have something to eat something to show and something to be proud of.  Right?

This would probably feed a small child in a random country… but it is likely to be a nice side item to a killer future meal.

So don’t laugh…

Yup, that is 3 squash and 2 okra pods and a banana pepper.  Eat your heart out AMERICA!

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