Cool Marriage Proposal

I found this on our High School website. Thought it was really neat the way this guy proposes!

SALSA (not the dance)

My sister-in-law, Diane, gave me some tomatoes from her garden. She also gave me her recipe for homemade salsa. So this evening Ambre and I made salsa. You start with a lot of tomatoes.
Then you add all kinds of good things like green peppers, onions, tomato paste, salt, sugar and then you cook for a while.
After that we filled the sterilized jars and cooked them in a hot water bath for 20 minutes and there you go. Salsa!!!!
Note: Pay no attention to the Texas Pete in the background. None of this was added to the recipe. It just happened to be sitting on the table when I took this picture. However, a small pod of hot pepper was chopped up in the mix to add a little zest.

Cicadas !!!

Every few years, we see a few of these unusual bugs around. We've never had
a major infestation. And according to the scientists, they are not expecting
one in 2009. I found this hatched shell on the end of one of my sidewalk bricks
this morning.
This is the cicada cocoon, so to speak, it looks like a large bug. The back
breaks open and the cicada comes out. When it emerges it is a bright green.
But after opening and drying off, it changes color.

And so ends the short science lesson.