Adventure and Life

So much has been going on my brain might explode from joy. Things are going really well here! Handsome Gentleman Friend and I have been adventuring like no ones business, including a rip to Utah, the Northern California Homebrewers Festival (of which i won the logo competition, look out!), winning a metric shitton of beer awards at the Napa Town and Country Fair, and even more... Check out the Dr. Mookie Love Jr blog and Terrible Lizard Brewing Blogs for GF's updates as he is more on top of these things then I am anymore.

School has started. If you follow my instagram (untidyvenus) you've seen some of my class projects, and the Don't Eat the Charcoal Blog Im trying to keep up with my works. Im taking 5 classes this semester, and the government revoked my Pell grant because i made to much.... I would have to double my income to hit the poverty line, but i made to much money this year? Oh well. My wonderful family is helping me out, and my goal is to not let them down. this is my crippling fear...

The pets are good. Castor and Pickles are the usual destructive dicks they usually are, and my little betta gal Goldie Hann is doing awesome. She's just soooo happy! I love betta's. The container garden is also in full production. The squirrel ate my potato plant, so i dug them up and from one baking potato i got a bucket of fingerlings. Its really exciting for me! I think its about time to harvest the sweet potato and the red potato too, as the leaves are turning yellow. The tomatoes are still going, soooo many cherry tomatoes! Its awesome. I also have been planting and harvesting radishes about monthly and their delightful. Both squash have little squash on them, but i think they need some fertilizer. and Lastly there are a bunch of Garlics going, yay for spring garlics!!

So I haven't posted this apparently, but Cooper and Hale Bop both passed over the rainbow bridge. they will both be missed, and i miss them both.

so ya! A bunch of pictures need to be processed and posted...

Cheers

Summer Time

Im in my last week or so of summer vacation. I had such big hopes for this summer... Working on my comic book, doing a ton of art, saving money and working more, growing a ton of food, playing pokemon.... and I got quite a bit done, but no where near what I had hoped. I HAVE watched a lot of Rockford Files... (I have a crush on young James Garner now, good lord he is such a MAN) And I am growing my container gardens, which are going awesomely. The baking potatoes seem to have been eaten by some creature, but the red potato and the sweet potato are going crazy!The tomatoes are finally producing, the joys of cool climate area I havnt had toms till now, but the Dr. Carolynn Cherry tomato may be one of the sweetest cherrys I've ever had. and their bright yellow color is so fun in salads and for snacks. Now I sound like some ad.. The beets are growing good, I may have crowded them to much but meh they will survive. The Basket of Fire chili has been pouring out hot chilis about as fast as I can pick them. I cook with some, and most I have been dehydrating with my Handsome Gentleman Friends dehydrator.

He's been spoiling me crazy. good food, and we have been brewing up some wonderful treasures.We have a bock that is amazing and i wish i didnt have to work later tonight so i could drink it now. Our California Common is as good as Anchor's, there are two batches of Pale Ale and a Choconut Stout that should be ready in a few weeks!

Last week I helped out at the brewery a bunch.I really like working over there. Some day..

In the mean time hope you all are enjoying school and had a wonderful summer!!

Garden, Pets, IBC

So much life has been happening! Phew! My cousin Jeff got married on 2 week notice, Handsome and I: hung out with my mama, planted the hop rhizomes, went to the IBC-International Betta Congress, went to San Jose for the 4th, went to Sac to Fleas Bday, and this weekend are headed to Tahoe for my Aunts Bday :3 holy sniznits!!!

My Small Spaces garden is going nuts! Potatoes are should signs of.. Potatoes.. Radishes are edible (actually really good) tomatoes are green and strong, and my Basket of Fire peppers are hot a nom nom good! 

Baby hops!!

Goldie Han my baby gold cellophane betta girl :3

Oh ya, he got a dehyrdator as well :3

Hale Bop... 

Ok! More to come!!

Sadness, Reliefe and Being Cathartic

So today my friend/feux Aunt Joann passed away. She was well into her 90's, lived a long and full life, and was an increadibly interesting person. She had been bed ridden for months now, so in a way this is a reliefe, as she hated being bed ridden. Im not gunna get into to much here but she was a wonderful, crotchety old lady. Im just feeling sort of blank about it, not shock as we knew this was coming, but just not really grasping it? maybe Im just over whelmed with work and school and everything.

Its November, and still beautiful. The garden is still going strong, and check out below how HUGE my kale has gotten!! Also the Fababeans are shooting up! its going to be a feastful winter :)

I was shown a SUPER cool blog about painting HERE, she paints a still life a week. I think I want to start doing this. Maybe after school is out, when I wont be painting. :)

Work, School and Work

So we are moving into midterms, so I asked my lovely manager to lessen my hours, so I can study and work on projects. Of course he doubled my hours and I work 6 days out of 7. If this keeps up I may have to quit, which I dont want to but school is WAY more important. Schools going, as usual, my digital media teacher isnt a fan of my idea's, this seems to be the thing. but I usually pull it off. It started raining this week, and was beautiful!! I love the rain, even if I have to wonder through it between buildings. The garden is looking awesome for fall! Spider plants are going crazy this year, and Im glad, their one of my favorites

Went to the hardware and garden store with the Aunties, and of course fell in love with a christmas dino display! :D Afterwards I hung out with them, as it was my only day off, and got the CAR ALARM INSTALLED!! Yay!! So I had a deal with the alarm guy to do a mural in exchange for the alarm, but he ended up having someone else do the mural cheaper? So I am going to do some ads for him I guess. Weird clients. but the Darlene is safe!! 

 In honor of the rain, I made lentil soup! :) So yummy!!! I have been ,unching on it all week for lunches and dinner.

Great Weekend, Great Fall

So this weekend was epicaly amazing. I will go into more detail tomorrow when I have more time, (today just got a break between class and work :) ) But basically Gentleman Friend and I visited the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin and Art Festival, Worlds Largest Corn Maze, and Karaoke!! Then Football, and my best moment ever...

"Hope you enjoyed your trip down the stairs slut lips!" -Dana Gould in the basic cable commentary of Showgirls

Ya, I fell down GF's stairs. Had to skip work, and have a 6 inch by 6 inch bruise on my rear, but no permanent damage :) GF was really sweet and took great care of me. So strange to see him all worried!

My Garden is looking fantastic for it being fall. And for being a container garden :) So here are some shots of it to tease you with. Tomorrow I'll get all into our adventure!!

FOOD! PICTURES! And Other Amazing things part 2

Thank for staying tuned!! I decided to break up the joy of this amazing weekend since there so picture heavy. So for Sunday I was supposed to work but decided to go to Gentleman Friends Co-workers picnic instead. SOOOO GLAD I DID!!! They made short ribs, sushi bake, watermelon, fried chicken, low mien, and so much more! I spent another day eating myself silly. The BBQ was out in San Mateo at a lovely park on the water. the wind was up and a little crazy, and I was dressed in full work gear of skirt, blazer and tights, but so much fun was had. Families brought their kids who were soooooooo cute!! The water was great, and even with the wind the weather was warm. GF's co workers were lovely and their spouses were as well. Another great day!! Oh ya, after we went and watched the Olympics. Gowd I miss TV.

So Monday the greatness continued, GF had tickets to the Giants/Mets game. We met up after he got off work and I was out of class (finished half my final!!! :D ) For dinner we went to the American Grill for the first time. it was pricier then the Melt but REALLY good Grilled Cheese! Plus the atmosphere was delightful.  the only off putting thing about it was one of the servers looked like my ex.... creepy....

Gentleman Friend and his tallness

Then we headed to the Giants game and had GREAT seats. The game was slow (even for baseball). about half way through the game we got a little peckish and split a Bacon Wrapped Hotdog. It was delightful. They had run out of onions and jalapenos for it but it came smothered in chipotle mayo and was still good. Just an FYI though the Bacon Dog at the Blues Fest was better. So when in Giants Stadium save the $8.

 Today was dance with Patsy which I love. After a quick lunch at the lovely Cafe Esmeralda, I headed to the Aunts house and took some pictures of their AMAZING garden. One day I'll have a garden like this. Also they gave me tons of home grown apples from their tree, plums from their tree, and more blackberries then I have consumed in the last 3 years combined.

and a cool car at local coffee shop when I pulled in

PS local coffee shop is amazing. They gave me a FREE refresher for wearing my amazing My Little Pony shirt with Northstar on it. Ugh I have so much homework to do, but Marc Maron is much more interesting right now.