Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
weekend updates

the weekend

Two of my employees/coworkers invited me to go to the Ligonier farmers market with them on Saturday. I’ve been wanting to go, so I took them up on their offer. It was very nice–and huge! I purchased a bunch of food items. Everything we’ve tried so far has been great. It was a little pricey, but I guess that’s how these things are. They had a great selection and I’d definitely go again.

Today has mostly been a cooking day (classic shortbread cookies, canned bread and butter pickles, and a kale and potato frittata for supper and the freezer), but it was interrupted briefly by a work event. Jake had to get some photos at Pet Therapy Day at Windber Rec for one of our clients. He didn’t need any assistance but I went along. Because…dogs.
health & wellness

fillings

Long story short, I had to get a tooth filled today. My first one in about 40 years! I wasn’t too happy about it, but the dentist did it without giving me a shot, so that was a plus (though it did hurt a little). Brian also had a cavity filled this summer, and the dentist is also keeping an eye on a small cavity for Jake. Coincidentally, perhaps, the Greater Johnstown Water Authority stopped putting fluoride in the water last fall. So, after my cavity incident, I added a fluoride mouthwash to my daily routine. Hopefully that will make up for the lack of fluoride in the water supply. I guess we’ll see how many more cavities I get.

home improvements

porch roof

We had our porch roof replaced this weekend. Poor guys–I can’t imagine doing a job like that in this heat. Everything looks good and I’m looking forward to some rain in order to enjoy the new, leak-free roof.

gardening & landscaping

tomatoes!

If nothing else, my garden is doing really well this year. The past couple of years, I’ve had issues with my tomato plants (usually they are on their way out by this point in the season), but they are doing really well this year. I bought a number of disease-resistant varieties to try and all are performing well so far.

The rest of the garden looks pretty good, too. I harvested a bunch of onions today and some were decent in size, which isn’t always the case. My garlic harvest was disappointing, though. I had good germination rates, but the heads turned out small. I’m going to do some additional fertilizing next year and see if that fixes the issue. And, I tried some of those long skinny cucumbers and am liking those, too.

relationships

divorce

I never thought I’d be saying this, but Brian and I are getting divorced. It’s not official yet, but he is in the process of buying a house and will be moving out shortly (I will be staying at our current residence). We plan on filing for divorce later this year once we both settle in to our new routines. This has been in the works for a while, but I didn’t want to announce anything here until we were able to tell everyone who needs to know about it (families, close friends, employees).

I’m not going to get into the details, but there wasn’t a single “thing” that happened to cause this. I guess you could say this has been years in the making. Since everyone asks…we are still on friendly terms and are going to remain business partners.

That’s all I have to say for now, but I’m sure there will be many changes to talk about in the future.