Free Ice Cream!

My second favorite treat after chocolate chip cookies has got to be ice cream. As a teenager my mom thought I was too skinny, so everynight she would let me scoop up a bowl, in hopes of fattening me up:-) I stock ice cream faithfully in my freezer, my favorite flavor is Dryers' Chocolate. However, it is a little pricey so I usually keep the craving in order with Meadow Gold's Chocolate, Mint chocolate Chip, or Vanilla (never plain, always with chocolate or caramel topping, or both). I also love banana splits, root beer floats, but not cake and icecream, or ice cream cake, and lets not get started about the the brownie w/ ice cream on top, oddly though I love them each separately. Aside from these few unpalettable combos I do believe in mixing ice cream with other wonderful components. One of our favorite places to end a date or go for a treat is Coldstones Creamery! Go to http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/ and sign up for the free ice cream on your birthday club! I've signed up the kids, M and myself. I always get a like it or love it chocolate with cookie dough mixed in--the best of both worlds. Now that its spring time, I'm sure I'll be enjoying Coldstone treats much more frequently-- have an Ice-day!

How does your garden grow?

I thought I'd post a few pics of my flowers from my garden last year. I'm hoping to grow more Zinnias and place them differently for more of an impact this year. These are mainly the Zinnia and Godetia from the border by the sidewalk. Unfortunately, I am stuck with this electrical box in the center of the flower bed, but we'll see what I can do to camouflage it, without getting my flowers trampled on when the technicians from the power company come to work on it.

My daffodil and tulips are almost ready to bloom. Thank you previous owner who planted them before we moved in. It's nice to have some color again after the gray winter. I just started my Royal Red Zinnia seeds last week, and they have already germinated and grown 3". I'm a little concerned I started them a bit too early, since the last frost date for here is May 30th. But, we'll see what happens. I also have 2 other mixed Zinnia seed packets to start later, I'll have a garden full of those this year, since 75 of my Royal Red seeds have already sprouted. I purchased some Canterbury bellflower seeds, and 4 different petunia seeds, pictured below from http://www.parkseed.com/ The petunias may be harder to grow from seed (they're tiny!), but I'm going to give it a try. If they do take, I'll have plenty to fill my porch and deck pots and hanging baskets, wish me luck!