Lily's Tomato Plant

Around the time of Benjamin's birth, Paw bought Lily a tiny tomato plant. 

It was in a tiny container and sat on the table on our deck for weeeeks.  It nearly wilted to death many times.  Finally, maybe near the end of June, I finally transferred it to this pot, only 1/3 full with soil.  Then a few weeks later, I finally managed to buy more soil to fill the container.  Then we got serious about watering it.  

We've slowly and patiently waited for those tiny green tomatoes to grow and ripen.

Yesterday was the day that Lily finally got pick and eat her tomato.

She has lived up to her name and loves some tomatoes just like her namesake.

She enjoyed every bite possible.

Today she gave the 2nd and 3rd red tomatoes to our neighbor boys.

She's a generous one.

yum!

Its hard to fit in blogging lately.  Until then, a mini-post...  

I've been obsessed with this salad lately... spinach, fruit (whatever I have... berries, pears, etc), feta, toasted almonds, and poppy seed dressing.  I think its the toasted almonds that make it so irresistible.... which is surprising to me, since I've never been a nut lover, but they are gooooood!  I just eat the leftover almonds by the handful.

Does anyone understand Instagram?  Is there a way to do it without "networking" it?  I just want the cute pictures to add on here, not a social network.  I want to just save them to my phone, not really upload them.  I'm thinking my best option is my knock-off Picasa version.  (Getting this pic from Instagram to my computer was much too much work.)  Thoughts?