Hey Mama.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers let our sports hopes down with their loss to the Rays. H. had loaned me one of his Rangers shirts for the occasion, but even that couldn't help the team win. Tonight's game had better turn out differently, otherwise I'll be breaking out ye olde tissue box.

Also yesterday, I dyed hair.

Turns out it's difficult to take a decent picture of the back of your head. 

I remember Susan telling me about the temporary dyes at the pharmacy store, so I picked up the darkest brown they had and gave it a shot. H. didn't even notice, and looking at these pictures, I don't blame him. It only made my hair a smidge darker than usual, although I like that it kind of kept all of the natural highlights I've got going on. Now when I feel like being a brunette-blonde mix, I can do it and wash it out the next day.

On Thursday I had a craving for Mexican food, specifically Chipotle, but I wanted to make something myself. Introducing the easiest chicken quesadillas ever.

Crackling Chicken Quesadillas
1 rotisserie chicken (a la Costco)
1 can black beans
1 can whole kernel corn
fresh cilantro
cheese of choice
uncooked flour tortillas

Pull apart chicken meat, chop into small pieces, place in large mixing bowl. Drain black beans and corn, place into a pot. Cook until veggies are warmed through. Chop cilantro, add to veggies, cook for another five minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat and add to chicken. Grate cheese, add to mixture. Cook flour tortillas half-done on both sides, add filling, return to pan and cook until cheese melts. 


The best part is that you can refrigerate the mix, then cook up fresh tortillas every time. Add guacamole and sour cream, and these are unstoppable. Plus, they've lasted us five meals (ten quesadillas), so top notch in my book.

The Rangers just started playing, so the rest of this might be a little choppy, but let's talk gardening! I've got many things happening in my window box, so let's start off with the new flowers.

Teeny tiny flowers!

These delicate white flowers make up about forty percent of the bloomage in my window at the moment. I think there are four plants (maybe five, it's hard to tell where one plant starts and another one ends these days) that have all started sprouting these beauties. The only thing I don't like is the maze of leaves this plant creates - it's the reason my blinds are so wonky now.

About 26" tall right now. 

Fuzzy has grown into a fine young specimen. Along with the one visible bud on top, there's a second one leaning into the window and a third developing along another separate stem.

I think this one's gonna be yellow. 

Despite much internet research, I still have no clue what this plant is. I thought 'fuzzy leaves' would be enough to give me a small selection of plants to go through, but it turns out that many plants are fuzzy. One species I did identify was my very first bloomer (the purple cluster plant), Phlox subulata. One down, three to go.

Windowsill squatter.

I didn't put much effort into identifying this guy. I figured it would be hard to find a plant name that matched the description 'pink flowers vine plant'. But then there's always Google Image searches.

And that concludes our post for today. I hope to be more forthcoming with my posts in the future, so stay tuned for Twitter updates about what I'm eating for lunch. Have a great weekend!