Keyboard + Gatorade = new keyboard

Oh the irony of it all! We had our computer on the kitchen counter for almost three years. The potential for it to get food or liquid in the keyboard was very high. A few days ago it was moved into another room. Yesterday Katrina was not feeling well, so I let her play a game on the computer while Amanda's OM team met in the kitchen. I brought her a little bit of Gatorade in a cup. Rebecca, who was supposed to be doing her homework and not playing with Katrina either, knocked the cup of Gatorade onto the desk and it ran off into the keyboard. Arg!

I took the whole keyboard apart (not an easy task!), dried it all off, cleaned under the keys, put it back together. . .and. . .nothing. Sigh! It was working before I took it apart, so should I have left it that way with all the Gatorade sloshing around in the bottom? Hmm. I guess we will never know.

So, now I have a new keyboard. It's not a Mac keyboard, so I don't have all the buttons I used to have and I am trying to figure out ways to do things I have had buttons for all this time, but I will adapt. We always do, don't we?

No drinks by the computer!!!!!

Gardening 101

This year we are planting a garden. We have been wanting to do this for several years, but kept putting it off until it was too late in the year. This year. . .no excuses!

Earlier this week, we figured out where we wanted to put the planter box in the backyard and then Katrina and Rebecca put soil into starter containers and then they poked holes with their fingers and planted the seeds for basil, mint, oregano, and strawberries. They should be poking their little green heads out in a week or so.

Today we drove into Fresno to Home Depot and bought the wood to build the planter boxes, some soil and compost and a cherry tomato plant. Katrina had a great time helping put the wood on the cart and then got a ride around the rest of the store.

When we got home Katrina helped to plant the cherry tomato. She dug the hole and patted the soil back over the plant and then watered it. It is fun to see them get so excited about this whole process.

This next weekend we are going to get the planter box put together and get the garden growing! I can't wait to be eating vegetables out of our own garden!!!