Snapshots

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Our goal is to have all the wedding invitations mailed by this weekend. I suppose that would require me to work on addressing envelopes, wouldn't it? Or work on printing invitations? Or other stuff like that? Yes, that would be correct. And yet again, I am sitting here typing a blog post rather than doing something semi-productive. Oops.

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On the wedding, my dress is here! Yay! I got to try it on last weekend, and it fits pretty well. It will need a few nips and tucks, but that's typical. The bodice actually needs to be taken in an inch or two, because while it has a lace-up back closure, it will look better if you can actually see the lacing. It will also fit better if it can be tied up tighter. Of course, I could consider gaining weight...or NOT! After all, Thanksgiving and Christmas are both between now and the wedding, so I can't help but gain some weight...especially if I eat too many of the green cornflake wreath cookies. I could probably live on those for a whole day.

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I went into Walmart yesterday to buy some tulip bulbs to teach a class this morning, and I found that I had to wade my way through Christmas decorations and Christmas dishes, and wrapping paper and ribbons and fake poinsettias (ACK!). Seriously. Isn't this a little bit much? I did see some very pretty blue ribbon that could be nice for wedding decorations. But that does not redeem the fact that Walmart is decked out for Christmas before Halloween.

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Does anyone else find it annoying that Barack Obama has bought 30 minutes of airtime tonight? Good. I would be disturbed if you didn't. I think I would still find it annoying if it was John McCain buying airtime. Ugh. I will be SO HAPPY when this election is over. I will be even happier after the media gets over drooling over Obama. Double ugh.

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Tomorrow I'm teaching the fruit class for our Master Gardener Basic Training. I feel like I'm trying to cram too much information into 3 hours. You want to try fitting comprehensive information on apples, pears, cherries, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and grapes into 3 hours with a break and an activity? Yeah, it doesn't work too well. The problem is that so few of our MGs are even interested in fruit, let alone have any experience with growing it. The only reason they need the information is to answer questions on Hotline, which won't apply to all of them. They probably will forget most of the information by the time they need to use it anyway.

However, I will make the attempt to teach the information in an interesting way, force them to think a little bit, and hope to encourage a few of them to try growing fruit in the future.

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Next Monday begins the craziness that is the month of November. My classes for market farmers/gardeners is getting some nice publicity, and I have people registered from a number of locations, so that makes me feel good that I'm offering something that is needed. Hopefully the classes go well, the participants get some good information and ideas, and I get some good contacts. I'm also seeing an increase in people coming in to ask about planting fruit for commercial production, which I think is a wide open market in this area. We have next to no commercial fruit operations. Agritourism places could do a booming business here.

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Ummm.....ok. I guess I ran out of things to say. I guess this means that I have to go to addressing envelopes. On that note, if you know that you have changed your address in the last couple months, please let me know so I don't have to hunt it down!