Making hot salsa

Inspired by Zestfest, we pulled a few things out of the garden and tried making our own hot salsa. Buzz's coworker had given us a recipe that we had been wanting to test out. Overall, it turned out pretty good. It was definitely too hot for me! Alas, Buzz will have to eat it all himself.

Happy ingredients make for good salsa.

Julia Child eat your heart out!

Chili Zestfest 2008

This weekend we decided to head out for a little fun. Having seen the billboards around town for the Zestfest, we decided to see what all of the fuss was about. We had heard that it was a collection of the zestiest salsas, hot sauces and fiery foods around. We found out that there were a few salsas that were more than fiery. Two hot sauces in particular were down right painful! How do we know that? Buzz tried one of them. His throat and taste buds were unusable due to the pain for about 20 minutes. He sweat through his baseball cap!

After trying the "Stupid Hot" hot sauce.

This was "Crazy Mother Puckers Liquid Lava."
How can you not trust that face?

Our intrepid band of participants.

Something to share...

Composed by the most talented Buzz in tribute to our "Big Fluffy Comforter" that needs to be cleaned at a Laundromat.

MY COMFORTER IS BIG AND FLUFFY BLUES

My comforter is big and fluffy
It won't fit in my washing machine
I said, my comforter is so big and fluffy
It won't fit in my washing machine
I’ll have to go to the Laundromat
And try and get that comforter clean

When your comforter is too big and fluffy
Your washer needs to be supersized
When your comforter is too big and fluffy
Your washer needs to be supersized
Gonna cost you at least three fifty
To get your comforter sanitized

I’m going to need some good detergent
Cause big and fluffy is so hard to clean
Gonna need some good detergent, mama
Cause big and fluffy is so hard to clean
Don’t want no scents, dyes or perfumes
And got to stop that static cling

Big and fluffy gets so sudsy
That the soap won’t rinse away
My big and fluffy gets so sudsy
That the soap won’t rinse away
When we get to the spin cycle
It’ll take all night and day

Keep on drying big and fluffy
One quarter at a time
Trying to dry my big and fluffy
Twenty-five cents at a time
After drying for seventeen long hours
Still gotta hang big and fluffy on the line

People, better heed my warning
One day soon you’ll have to choose
I’m beggin’, PLEASE, please heed my warning
Cause you know you’ll have to choose
Don’t let your big and fluffy get dirty
I’m talking bout keep your big and fluffy from being dirty
Don’t let your pets sleep on your big and fluffy and get it dirty
Don’t put your big and fluffy at the bottom of some shelf and stack stuff on top of it and make it dirty
I’m saying don’t put your big and fluffy comforter down on the floor while you’re doing some home improvement project where lots of sawdust and drywall stuff starts blowing around the air and then you set some greasy tool down on it without thinking, but you pick it up quick and see the big black smudge you left on it, so you try and wipe it off, but you use your greasy hand and it just makes the smudge worse and you’re like, oh crap, I need to hide this but then your wife walks in and she’s like, what did you do to my comforter and you’re like, what, it was like that when I came in here, but she knows that you’re lying and you know you ain’t gonna get any for a long while cause you just got her great grandma’s hand-stitched comforter dirty…
Or you’re gonna have the “My Comforter is Big and Fluffy” blues…..

For the record, there is no big black smudge left by the composer that composer's wife had to yell at composer for creating.

Garden Creatures

For quite a while now, something has been eating my tomato plants. Last week, as I was working in the garden, I finally came across the culprit! It was a rather large caterpillar, who was almost done eating another one of my tomatoes!


Also, with me in the garden that morning were two toads. When I first saw them, I thought they would find a new home for the morning. Well, they never left the garden. As I worked, they would just move a little to the left or right, just enough room to allow me to work.


We have also seen two rabbits in our back yard. So with the cats, rabbits, toads, and caterpillars, we are becoming our own zoo.

Our New Bed

We got a new bed, and we are super excited! When Buzz and I got married, we got rid of his two twin beds and moved my full size bed into the master bedroom. Since then, we've been sleeping on a full size bed together. However, we did both adjust. Well, we finally had the opportunity to buy a new bed, and we've upgraded to a Queen.

Delivery of the bed.

Yeah us!

Look, Mom! My feet don't hang off the bed!

We've slept on the bed for a week now, and love it! We love the extra space and added comfort.

Gone Bowling

Over Labor Day weekend, Buzz and I decided to go bowling. It had been a long time since I bowled. Mostly, Buzz scored well above 100, and I scored well below 100. However, by game three my scores were improving. I even got a strike and a couple of spares.