Heirloom tomato plants arrive

A few weeks ago I ordered several heirloom tomato plants from Laurel' Heirloom Tomato Plants. She has so many to choose from. Last year I was only semi-successful with them because I flubbed up on some import things like food and water, and basic neglect because I started back to work as soon as I got them in the ground. But the ones that I did manage to revive were incredible. This year will not be a repeat and we will have more tomatoes than we know what to do with. Although I already have some recipes I'm looking forward to trying.

Here are descriptions and photos of the types of plants I got.

Yummy yummy!!!

New for 2009! Black Sea Man (4.95) 75 days (D) So many customers have gone wild over this tomato that I have decided to include it for 2009 as one of our premier varieties. A Russian tomato, the smallish determinate plants produce an enticing mahogany color fruit with olive green shoulders when mature.

Inside, the flesh is deep dark red with a beautiful hint of dark green and loaded with full-bodied, complex, intense, creamy tomato flavors. Wonderful for medium sized (10 to 15 gallon) containers, Black Sea Man has entered the running for the best black tomato in the world.

Japanese Black Trifele (TRY-feluh) AKA Truffle Black ($5.25) (SM) 80 days. Japanese Black Trifele, which translates to truffle, is a big juicy 6 -10 ounce pear-shaped, deep purple-black tomato with pretty green shoulders. In Russia the Trifele varieties of tomatoes--of which there are several colors--are highly prized and command high prices. Growing on a short potato-leafed plant, it's the size and shape of a Bartlett pear and among the darkest hued and finest flavored of the black tomatoes.

The skin is smooth and crack resistant and production is huge. Flavor is deep, chocolaty, smoky and rich, just wonderful. Took their picture and ate 'em.

Mortgage Lifter aka Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter ($4.95)(BB) (HG) 80 days.

Radiator Charlie and his big tomatoes in

a newspaper photograph from 1964.

This gigantic legendary heirloom from Logan, West Virginia developed by M.C. 'Charlie' Byles in the 1930's, is huge, sweet, juicy, delicious and prolific, with splendid old time tomato flavor. The meaty pink-red fruits weigh at least a pound, averaging 2½ lbs. and reaching up to 4 lbs. A very prolific plant which continues to bear fruit right up until frost, it also keeps very well.

Marshall Cletis Byles, who much preferred to go by MC or just Charlie, owned a garage specializing in radiator repair.

He developed Mortgage Lifter over a six year period by crossing German Johnson, Beefsteak and 2 other really big varieties, all chosen for their huge size and grand flavor. He sold the resulting plants for a dollar each (in the 40's), and was able to pay off his $5000.00 house mortgage in only 6 years with the profit from his plant sales. "I didn't pay but six thousand dollars for my home, and paid most of it off with tomato plants", said Charlie in a tape recorded interview with his grandson which aired recently on National Public Radio.

Charlie's repair shop was at the bottom of a steep hill so travelers whose radiators over-heated during the climb had to coast back down to Radiator Charlie's for repair. Other folks heard about these huge luscious tomatoes and came from hundreds of miles to buy the plant. As my customer John in Virginia says, "It's just not a real tomato garden without Mortgage Lifter." Charlie Byles lived to be 97 years old. Here is a link to the story, in Radiator Charlie's own voice:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00027&segmentID=6

Our deepest thanks to Jeff McCormick, a famed seed saver, for keeping Charlie Byle's tomato seeds and so many other great heirloom varieties alive and thriving for gardeners worldwide. Without Jeff's efforts many of these grand old family heirlooms would have been lost forever.

Paul Robeson ($4.95) (VE) (HG) 65-70 days. This is my all-time favorite tomato and our top seller.

It is a gorgeous, dark and dusky-hued fruit with intensely sweet earthy taste with a hint of tanginess, a luscious velvety smooth texture, beautiful skin, rich with juice. You will love it. The seed was made available by Marina Danilenko, a Moscow seedswoman.

This luxurious tomato is named for Paul Robeson (1898-1976), the elegant, renowned and charismatic operatic singer, law school graduate, champion athlete, film star, stage actor, and boundlessly brave champion of civil and personal rights throughout the world. This marvelous plant will give you its perfect 3"- 4" fruit in only 65 days from planting. Incredible; a symphony. I do believe this is the finest tomato in existence.

Peacevine Cherry ($5.25) F/C 70-75 days. The tiny tomato with the gigantic taste. Developed from Sweet 100 by Alan Kapular of Oregon, the Peacevine currant type tomatoes grow in clusters of 18 to 20 fruits on a big strong , vining plant with vines that can reach15 feet., and ripen in only 50 to 60 days from plant out.

When ripening, these marble-sized tomatoes can range from deep dark red to orange and yellow. The elaborate sparkling flavor of Peacevine literally changes from rich and sweet to tart and tangy and back again as you munch them--the Everlasting Gobstopper of tomatoes.

The Peacevine name was chosen because of the high amino acid content which has a calming effect on the body. This indeterminate variety had the highest vitamin C content in a cherry tomato among 30 varieties analyzed by Rutgers University.

Porter's Dark Cherry ($4.95) (Ch) (E) (SM) 65 days. This is such a fine tomato! Produces early, is abundant on the vine in charming clusters of 6 to 8. Small and gem-like, 1" long grape type fruits in an oblong oval shape, with a deep pink hue, it is becoming a much sought after favorite for discriminating tomato maniacs nationwide because the flavor is complex, rich and fabulous--just ambrosial. One of the prettiest tomatoes I've ever seen, marvelous in salads, snacking, and a brave plant that stands up extremely well to hot weather.

Sun Gold ($4.95) F/C (EE) (H) 45 - 55 days.

This is the one of the best cherry tomatoes I've ever tasted, rivaling Isis Candy, and ready to pick in only 55-60 days. It has the big, rich flavor of a full-size tomato, in a beautiful little deep-golden fruit growing in bountiful clusters on a huge plant. Sweet, rich, so beautiful...just left of center in the photograph at the top of this page. Most of them won't make it into your house from the garden. If you send someone to pick them for you, keep your binoculars trained upon the picker. The tomatoes in the photograph were picked on November 25th with our Los Angeles night temperatures in the 40's, Sun Gold is still going strong.

Super Snow White ($4.95) 70 days. F/C (E)

A gourmet's delight. I can't say enough about this exquisite, ping pong ball sized, white cherry tomato which ripens from white to ivory to palest yellow with a bright, rich and sweet juicy flavor. Very prolific, easy to grow, pretty as starlight and a top seller.

Sweet Pea ($4.95) (Ch) 62 days. This is the smallest and most endearing little tomato I've ever seen. Sweet Pea produces thousands of tiny ¼" deep-red currant tomatoes with an elaborate, rich, old time tomatoey taste--complex and sweet. They grow on a big wispy plant in bountiful clusters like handfuls of rubies. I had seen these itty bitty fruits decorating chef's creations at culinary events and had eaten them in salads at foodie soirees, then, after tasting them again at TomatoFest I knew I must bring home the seeds and grow plants for you.

Marathon Training--I am SO F****D

When I decided to sign up for the LA Marathon, new date, new route, I was already at a date which would be considered to be at the edge of when one should start training. And then I waited another week because I couldn't really believe I signed up for another marathon. I don't really love running. I like its effects; physical conditioning, cardio, weight loss, etc. I know there are other ways to attain each of those but running is straight forward and simple. I also like the event itself. And I like being able to say I can run a marathon.

Then I got serious and caught a cold, which is still lingering ever so slightly. And the latest dilemma has been trying to find the right shoes for my messed up, over-pronating, Morton's toed, tired and beat down feet. First I got shoes that were 1/2 size too large, which caused hot spots, then I switched to an "motion controlled" shoe to help resolve some of my running issues. That ended up in the blisters becoming hot spots.

At this point, I was beginning to realize that come hell or high water I needed to get my long runs up to the right distance, in order to be ready for the marathon.

Hell came.
I went on a 14 mile run yesterday. Up to that point the longest I had run since the marathon last year was 10 miles which I did with little effort a couple of weeks ago. I taped up my feet but shortly into the run I could tell I was going to have blister issues. I pushed on. The first several miles were tough to get into but when I hit the halfway point I was feeling good. In fact miles 6 to 10 happened with little effort. Then I started to hit the wall. Miles 12 to 14 killed me and unfortunately only got me to the bottom of the hill on the way to my house. That last uphill mile which I didn't count in the mileage because I was no longer running or jogging, took me 22 minutes of painful limping.

When I got home, my feet had blisters the size of silver dollars. I had chaffing on both inner thighs and a bit along my waistband and I basically tottered around like an old man for the rest of the day. According to one of the training schedules I have, I should be hitting mile 21 on these long runs by now.

Oh boy!!!

Blog-jam

I've been neglect on keeping up with my blog and that has created a blog-jam. In the past I have smushed everything into one entry that goes on and on, but this time I am going to try to write separate entries for each as I normally would however they will be out of chronological and for that matter any kind of logical order. These are some of the postings you can expect in the next few hours or days.



Renaissance Faire

Marathon Training

Heirloom tomatos

Coaching girl's basketball

Jon's Social Experiment

Set Decorator's Society of America - Spotlight

How NOT to get over a "little" cold quickly

Last Saturday when I ran in the Great Urban Race with Kip, I felt several times during the course of the race that I was slacking a bit, something was not quite right. I wrote this off to perhaps not training enough recently or maybe it was the vest I was wearing because it was a bit chilly but ended up causing me to overheat and sweat like pig. (Sorry again Kip. In the three-legged race he suffered as well because of my ill planning.) And indeed it could of been either of these things. But when I woke on Sunday with more than a tickle in my throat I knew it was also that I had caught a bug that had glanced off Skye. She had a slight cough and crazy sneezing for a day or so but nothing else. So I was good and took it somewhat easy on Sunday.

Monday morning had me feeling not too much better, but not too much worse. Now this could have probably been the end of it had I taken it easy, but ....

I trained in jui jitsu, which is always an intense experience. And that day seemed to be more intense than usual. Now it could have been that I was fighting a cold or it could have been that I was training with two advanced belts who were in great shape and knew what they were doing or a combination of the two. I was like putty for the rest of the day.

A good night's sleep was in order but I had told Kip that I would make it out and see his band, Beautiful Criminal play at the Viper Room that evening. I knew better but I had told Kip I was going(I know he would have understood had I bowed out) and I had never been to the Viper Room and sometimes my judgment is not spot on. I went out, had a bad martini, a good Guinness and quite enjoyable time.

I felt worse on Tuesday. But that didn't keep me from running. I am after all behind on my training for the LA Marathon. Bad idea.

I still felt bad on Wednesday. But I needed to steel myself for the evening, because we were hosting another "Social Experiment" and I knew that I would be up late.

Another lovely Experiment experience(more on that next week post final Experiment on Wednesday), but I did end up cleaning the kitchen well past mid-night.

I would have loved to sleep in but the Super Duper park day was upon us and I had not prepared any sort of food for the potluck, which I ended up foraging at Whole Foods. So I rustled Skye from bed and loaded this that and the other gear for a full day at the park. Again another lovely time, the kids projects were wonderful and had many interesting and varied discussions while Skye and friends played and got in their dose of "socialization" home school style.

Friday morn, the cold had moved to my chest and I was looking forward to spending many hours that day in a massive refrigerator, also know as the Staples center to take Skye and company to see the World's Figure Skating Championships. We were very fortunate to be in one of the VIP boxes because of a friend's great generosity. Not only were the seats incredible, (that is by the way, the best way to see events at Staples) but several of the other people in the suite were avid figure skater followers, generous friend perhaps most of all. It was great to have experts to field questions and help see the subtle differences between one performance and another. But while it was very wonderful experience, I was in an ice rink all day. My fight with the cold was not helped by this.

Saturday had me sleeping in til 7 am which is good for me. I took it easy and am almost back to normal, but I knew we were meeting friends to see a play that evening at the Actor's Gang theatre in Culver City. Now the smart me would have backed off and excused myself. But they were good friends that I like hanging out with and we rarely get to the theater and I know how much Cindy loves it so off we went to see The Trial of Catonsville Nine. Very interesting and sparked more interesting conversations which simply had to be continued over a bite of sushi and a bit of beer, dark Asahi to be precise. Not exactly an early night, but certainly a nice night out.

I feel better today with little more than a sniffle and a tightness in my chest. As tempted as I am to go for a run, I am going to hold myself back and hope that I am 100% by tomorrow and then attack the marathon training fully.

I feel very fortunate to have all the friends and experiences that kept me from getting over this cold in a day or so. And knowing me I would do the same thing all over again.

A Tapas style Update

A little smattering as to where I' m at these days

Sports

• Lakers-- Pretty much biding my time til the playoffs. They're playing great, second in the league by a game with 12 games left of the regular season. I have reduced my game watching time significantly, which will change come April.
• Lance Armstrong broke his collarbone in a race in Spain on Monday, but says it shouldn't affect him racing in the Tour de France.
• My marathon training has been hampered by a slight cold in the last couple days. Also I am realizing again how the training for a marathon and jui jitsu are very different. Oh well

Home Schooling

Getting back into the park day schedule. Skye's getting her Super Duper project ready for Thursday. I am as I often am in deep study mode on teaching philosophies. Reading The Educated Child by William Bennett and The Underacheiving School by John Holt and then The Parents Guid to Alternatives in Education. Each one quite different from the other. Much to digest and consider while trying to give Skye an upbringing that won't leave her on the streets, a shrink's couch, or running away with the circus.

Gardening

I have on order several unique and rare Habanero chile plants from a wonderfully interesting grower in San Diego. Check out his story at Refining Fire Chiles. Also on order are several Heirloom tomato plants from another local grower, Laurel's heirloom tomatos. I'm trying to buy as much as I can from local and small organic growers. Also composting everything in site as well tending to the worm farms which are churning out a good amount of castings. Should be a bountiful harvest.

Set Decorator Society of America

Although I just recently changed my status with Local 44 to property so that I could have more flexibility schedule wise, I am remaing active in the SDSA. We have many new members to the board. I continue to chair the events committee and plan to increase the number and variety of events we host.

The Social Experiment.

Can't comment until the experiment concludes next Wednesday.

Stay tuned

The Great Urban Race

Yesterday Kip and I raced in the Great Urban Race. The last time we raced in one of these was back in 2007 and we came in 2cnd out of 50 teams. This year there were almost 500 teams.

These are pics from the race, before during and after. Pretty much in reverse order.









The finalists for Best Costume. The Underage Chinese Gold Medal Gymnasts won.





Before the race, this shows about half of the people competing. It was actually less convoluted along the race course than last year when there were around 100 teams.




Semi-finalists for best costume.



Kip really wanted to dress up. Here he is admiring the gymnasts' costumes.



The Race started and ended downtown



Took us to Olvera Street






MacArthur Park



Hollywood



















The Sunset Strip



When all was said and done we had a great time, came in just over 3 hours and .....
placed a very respectable 4th place. Which qualifies us to compete in the Championships in New Orleans.

Any sponsors???

PS We were a P & J sandwich from coming in the top 3.

A Long Hot Run

I dropped Skye off at the dentist with Cindy, which found me in Burbank around 11 am with time to do my long run.

I parked nearby on a street that had access to the horse trails that lead up into Griffith Park. I've run this area before, but usually in the cool morning when the dew is still holding down the dust on the trails. Today was very different. In spite of it still officially being winter, the temperature was in the eighties. The sun was directly overhead leaving very little shade. And the dust kicked up easily and soon felt like it was coating my mouth, nose throat and lungs.

The trails were composed of loose sand and gravel which is great for horses I suppose but made for a slow pace. And the trails that headed into the mountains were ridiculously steep. I was not walking or hiking but the speed was pretty much that equivalent. I had my running-computer-geek watch informing me that I had slowed at times to a 22 minute mile pace. Unlike a riding a bicycle where you labor up a hill and know you will be rewarded with an effortless fun ride down, running downhill is quicker to be sure but at the considerable price of jarring one's muscles and joints.

When all was said and done I put in 1 hr and 33 minutes and ran 8.28 miles. That's a pace of 11:17 minute miles burning around 1473 calories, or in St. Patrick's Day terms 7 pints of Guinness.

ATYPICALDAY

Ran trails at Kenneth Hahn park for 1hr 15min. I love how close we live to that park.

Home school lessons with Skye for a couple of hours.

Jui jistu training for l hr 30 min.

Errands

More home school with Skye

Got house in order and prepped for "Jon's Social Experiment"

Hosted "Jon's Social Experiment"

Day sprinkled with phone calls, e-mails, web surfing, thoughts, scheduling, Jon-Cindy talks, etc. etc.

L.A. Marathon

I signed up for the LA Marathon today. 26.2 miles of pure bliss(not really). I haven't been running or doing any kind of consistent training in like a year or something ridiculous.

76 days until the race. I've run the LA Marathon 4 times, '91, '02 (4 hrs 46 min), '05 (4 hrs 45 min), and last year '08(4 hrs 49 min). Not fast granted, but pretty consistent. I didn't really train much for any of those, but this year will be different.

Denizens of the pond

After cleaning out the pond and realizing that whatever destroyed the koi didn't get the high-fin shark and the little mosquito fish, I decided they could use some company as well as some help cleaning up the algae and stuff on the bottom of the pond.




Better pic of our "shark".




One of the two Golden Dojo I got to help clean up the pond muck as well as to keep the shark company.





Its a bit hard to make out but there's the dojo and a tadpole and one or two of the mosquito fish.

Random list, account, photos from Last Week of February

February came and went. Spring is officially weeks away but it feels pretty springy here at the Milagro house.



Gardening

If you look really hard you can see my potato's sprouting. There are a bunch of other little sprouts. I have no idea what they are so I'll let them grow for a while and see what they are.





My salad barrel needs some thinning, but is doing quite well.






Pond scum cleaning

Several weeks ago our Koi pond was raided and all of the koi were taken, eaten by some pesky raccoon I imagine. But after that I kind of let the pond go. So yesterday I finally got around to cleaning it up.




The Sole Survivor

After cleaning out the algae and gunk, I discovered that one fish had survived the carnage. Our little High Fin Shark, survived.




More Gardening

This mint plant got more than a little root bound in his pot. I've got a spot for him in the garden where he can spread out those roots a bit more.








Sewing lessons

Skye and I are learning how to sew on this industrial monster. I little intimidating because it goes really fast. But we're getting the hang of it.

Coaching Skye's Y basketball team

Home schooling

Hanging out with the other "mom's" at park days.

Skye did a scale model of the solar system for her science Super Duper. The sun was represented by an 8 inch ball, making the earth the size of a peppercorn and Jupiter around the size of a small jaw beaker. The park we were at wasn't quite big enough to set up, in fact it spilled over into an alley way and Lincoln Blvd prevented us from reaching Neptune and Pluto. (I know its a moon) All in all the model has you walking 1000 yard (10 football fields) to go from the sun to Pluto. And remember in that model earth is the size of a pepper corn.

I gave up my Union Local 44 Decorator Card and am now on the roster as a property person.

Hourly vs. salaried
Back-aches vs. headaches
Stress and status vs. Chillin' and being one of the gang
More money(sometimes) vs More flexibility(also sometimes)

Brazilian Juijitsu

Hosting a Social Experiment

Gardening Adventures

It seems like gardening should be so simple. People talk about simpler times, of agrarian roots.

Somehow every time I set out to take on some simple gardening task I end up spending hours in the garden. I love to garden so this is ok. Finding enough hours in the day, that's an entirely different manner.

But it was with the simple intent of planting a couple of wine barrels that began the June Bug journey. I had had tomato plants in the tubs previously, but that had been months ago. I figured I'd dig around pull out any remaining roots and be on my way.

As my hands worked the soil, I came upon this enormous grub, that we latter identified as a June Bug. And then I came upon another and another and another. I emptied the barrel and proceeded to sift through the dirt until I hauled in 62 of these little monsters.





I didn't know what to do with them and Skye asked me to keep them. For now they are in this little terrarium covered in dirt. I don't have any idea how to care for them, but there they are. I might look into their edibility and see if I can find a good recipe for them.




The previous home of the monsters. One barrel had 62 grub. The other barrel, none. Now I've got lettuce, soybeans, and carrots in them. They seem to be doing quite well. In the black barrel I planted some fingerling potatoes that I ended up not cooking and they started sprouting so I figured why not.

The Good Bugs

After determining what these grubs were, I turned my attention to prevention. Because I am growing organically, I often end up getting a beneficial insect to counter the baddies. For these grubbies, I would use beneficial nematodes which I ordered on line.

A few days later I recieved a little plastic jare full of Steinemema feltiae more affectionately call NemAttack and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora or NemaSeed from Arbico Organics.

Beneficial Nematodes are microscopic, non-segmented worms that occur naturally in soil throughout the world. Once released, the nematodes seek out their host, enter through body openings, emit a toxin and death occurs within 48 hours.

I also ordered some 1000 Aphidoletes aphidomyza, Aphid predators. A Predatory Midge that Attacks All Types of Aphids

By the way that became part of Skye's science lesson for the day.




Remember the worm farms that started off as one of her home school science presentations and has grown into a whole new hobby of mine.

They are doing great, churning through lots of shredded junkmail, kitchen scraps and yard clippings. Processing it from what would have been tossed in the refuse bins into wonderful fertilizer.





Inside one of the bins, the good bugs hard at work.





I put together this little green house to start up some seedlings. Inside I've rigged an irrigation system set with a timer to cut down on a little of the work.





Inside the green house.



So far I have only been able to plant one-half of one of the four raised beds. I also have many empty pots that want to be utilized.




The citrus trees are producing wonderfully. We've been giving them away by the bucketful. Hopefully soon we'll be able to use them ourselves.

The Grey of Green- Lightbulb disposal

The other day after changing several burnt out light bulbs, I seemed to recall that there was a "correct" means of disposing of light bulbs. After spending way too much time looking for the book "Green House--eco-friendly disposal and recycling at home" I found some disturbing information.

Incandescent lights are trash, nothing hazardous, no recycling market for its glass or metal. The new more efficient and therefore "green" CFLs (compact fluorescent lights) contain mercury. Now I have heard that the amounts are insignificant, however when hundreds of thousands or rather millions of them start ending up in landfills. Well you can imagine the unfortunate toxic results. But like batteries and ink cartridges and paint and on and on with the hazardous waste we as individuals create there are collection programs and facilities.

Now I am saving my bad CFLs until I can locate such a place. So keep that in mind when tossing out your used "green" bulbs.

The Tangled Web We Weave-Emphasis on Tangle

I think of myself as somewhat organized but having taken on too much, in regards to commitments, projects, job, family, life to have things as organized as I would like. I know that things would go more efficiently if they were better organized, but that takes time which then puts me further behind on other things which then leads to me not having time to get organized so that I might save time, a classic paradox. What follows is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Note it is Monday and I started writing on Saturday but ran out of time and very well might this morning as well, but here goes.

Saturday 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
My job on the remake of Fame ended on Friday and so this morning I awoke at 5:30 and decided to take it easy(ha, ha) and just send out two e-mails in regards to the times of Skye's basketball games.

Somehow, I misplaced the schedule and everything else regarding the YWCA basketball program that Skye is playing in on the team I am coaching, which along with coaching duties involves the coordintation of things like picture day and after game snacks etc.

The search for this notebook led me to find many other organizational deficiencies throughout the house prompting a Spring cleaning/organizing campaign that has resulted in emptying closets, unloading book cases, clearing desks and piles of stuff throughout the house in need of sorting. After a couple of hours of doing this I found the basketball stuff under the desk where I had been working, sent out the e-mails and then continued on with the "relaxing" Saturday.

This project I am sure will take a great deal of time, perseverance and diligence. I include pictures because when I don't I get emails asking for pictures back in the blog so that is why you get to see my piles of jumble.



I love magazines and have a hard time parting with them. So I have many, many of them and they get sorted and shelved. I have fallen behind on this.



One of the many book sorting stations.




That was all on my desk this morning.

Too much stuff, but getting rid of stuff ends up taking a ridiculous amount of time, more on that latter.

Obama--A New Chapter

It's well over a month since my last entry. A lot has happened in that time. I have not written for a variety of reason, even considering discontinuing this blog. But after watching President Obama (I like the sound of that) I have decided to pick myself up, dust myself off, and begin again.

So I won't try to do a Cliff note version of the past month, but I will start off fresh looking ahead.

Cindy and I are currently working on the remake of the movie Fame.

Skye is continuing home schooling. The home school network of friends and activities has been of an enormous help as has our current tenant/friend/watcher of Skye, Jennifer.

I am coaching Skye's YWCA basketball team and trying to keep fit, both mentally and physically as I continue my study of Brazilian Juijitsu, my "urban farming" adventure, our convoluted Nicaragua quagmire, and a plethora of other pursuits, diversions, missions and goals.

Juggling all of this has been challenging to say the least. But stay posted for new photos, stories, updates, etc, etc. etc.

Hurray for Obama

Hurray for America

Hurray for a New Chapter

Let's make it a good one!!!!!!