Take Me Out to The Ball Field!

And buy me some ice cream, a hot dog, some nachos, and a funnel cake while you're at it.  Yeah, that's what she said.  And that's what she did.

That's right.  Rebecca and Mike came up from the Big D this past weekend and we took them to the brand new ball field in town.  The Drillers were playing the Cardinals... both farm teams to Major League Baseball teams.  

But this is my FAVORITE part!  This was the view from our 2nd row above the guest team dugout.  Love it!  My next favorite part was the food.  BBQ?  Got it.  Mexican food?  Got that, too.  Ice cream parlor?  HECK YES.  Did I have a sunday?  Sure.  Did I have a rootbeer float?  Why yes.  Keep walking keep walking keep walking....

There was a race between 2 QT taquitos and 1 QT Hot Dog!  It was like a dream come true really.  Really.  And the best part...

The hot dog was winning!  LOL  (hot dogs are my favorite.  really.)  But then something HILARIOUS happened...

My favorite food lost its' pants.  Look very closely.  It was one of the funniest things the entire crowd had seen in a while.  I mean, how often do you see a hot dog mascot's pants fall off as it's racing against two tequitos?  Never.  That's how often.  

So the game was fun, the Drillers lost, but we won.  Because it was Fireworks Friday!!

So when the Drillers played at the old stadium we used to hear the fireworks from our house, but we'd never seen the fireworks.  I have to say, they were pretty impressive!  As was our entire experience at ONEOK Field.  I'll tell you about the perfect activity after a game later.

Ciao.  

Warning: This may be boring to normal people.

This whole having "seasons" thing is still new to me.  This is only the second time in my life where I can remember being joyous over leaves.  LEAVES.  There are fresh leaves in the trees!!  Okay, I'll simmer down now...

So Easter weekend was beautiful here.  I think I spent 45 hours outside.  Working in our yard mostly.  I had some serious lamb's ear to tame.

This is lamb's ear.  I'm sure it has a more proper name, but just call it lamb's ear.  If I'm talking to you about plants, I'm offering you some lamb's ear.  This stuff is awesome.  You can tear pieces of it out of the ground, bury the stem a little under some dirt and it will re-root in days.  It stays green in the winter, then while no one is paying attention it replaces itself with little ears that are brighter green.  This is the point where you have to clean out the dead brown leaves.  Then you realize that your lamb's ear has tripled in size since the Fall.  What?  Yes.  TRIPLED.  This stuff comes back with a vengeance!  It's the perfect edging for this bed we have and you CAN'T kill it.   I've successfully re-located some Bevel lamb's ear to two different friend's yards in the area.  lol.  I'm trying to convert the world I tell you.  

ANYWAY!  So on Saturday, I thinned out my lamb's ear, and I planted about half of it in my neighbor's back yard.  Then I took a short nap.

Then I got up and headed to my new favorite nursery.  Picked up some new gardening gloves, some flowers for the back bed to go with the lamb's ear :) and a pot of tulips!  

Tulips.  I am completely amazed that tulips come up every year with out having to plant them here.  Tulips are a rarity where I come from.  Here they are EVERYWHERE!  In Louisiana people have to dig the bulbs up and freeze them then replant them and..... well that's too much trouble for most.  Like I said, I had no idea...

So ever since we've found ourselves in this cool T-Town, I've dreamed of wanting tulips.  So I saw a pot of them at the nursery and figured now was as good a time as any.  So I took them home... wait, maybe this is when I took that nap...

Then I divided them and planted them.  I ended up with 8 tulips, or maybe 9.  I'm too tired to go out and count them again.  Shane said he doubts if they will bloom this Spring.  As everybody else's tulips are past full bloom now.  My tulips were about 4 inches high with no buds yet when I bought them.  I'm still completely giddy about having these tulips.  

Yesterday I was talking to Shane while I was at work and he said that you could see the buds of the tulips and it looked like they would actually bloom.  "REALLY??!!"   I said.  "Yep." "Okay!  I'm coming home right now to see!"  And it was 2:30.  So, no, I didn't actually leave my job to look at my growing tulips.... but gosh was I tempted.  

This is what I came home to.  Okay.  I know what you're thinking...

But LOOK!!  You can totally see the flower coming out.  Did I mention that my tulips will be the best color of tulips?  Yes.  RED.  

I water them.  They are going to bloom.  It is going to be awesome.  And yes, you will probably be seeing more photos of tulips.  Hey, it's what I've got goin' on outside of work these days...