Return from the Zombieland & Win TROY HIGH!

I’ve been sick this week and it has totally kicked my butt. I felt like I was a zombie, just walking around slowly and stumbling, unable to think about anything except “BRAAIINNSSSSS!!”–um, I mean, medicine. I had Jell-O for breakfast Tuesday morning because I didn’t feel like eating anything else. It was awesome. Being sick is the only time you’re allowed to eat Jell-O for breakfast without people thinking you’re crazy.

My head is finally starting to feel a bit clearer though I’m not back to 100% yet. I did want to make sure you all knew that you have a chance to win a SIGNED copy of my book TROY HIGH or other awesome prizes from other YA authors. Just go over here to The Book Scout’s blog and enter her YA Author/Pet contest. Look at all those cute little animals! It’s a fun contest so go on over and try to match up YA authors to their pets. Good luck!

In between being a zombie, The Husband and I have been working on our garden for this year. We had such good luck with the tomatoes we planted last year (I still have a bag of frozen tomatoes from our garden in the freezer! I’ve been using them all winter in my cooking) that we decided to expand and plant new things.

There’s our little seedlings! We have watermelon, corn, carrots, collards, lettuce, two kinds of tomatoes, and cucumbers. The watermelon will probably need to be transplanted to the ground soon because they are growing fast!

And I posted back in September about the pineapple we were growing from the top of a pineapple we had eaten. We first started it back in April 2009 from that little pineapple top. In September, it looked like this:

We had to keep it inside all winter so that the cold wouldn’t kill it, so we kept it in our guest room, which is off limits to the cats and dogs, by the window and it grew A LOT during the winter even though the website I read had said growth slows over the winter.

This is what it looks like now:

It outgrew the other pot and we had to transplant it yesterday into a MUCH bigger one. If that was slow growth over the winter, I suspect that we’ll end up with a Monster Pineapple at the end of this summer. It takes 2 to 3 years for the plant to actually fruit though, so we still have a long way to go.