More herbs

Yesterday I harvested two more bunches of calendula, some of the stevia, and some of the curry plant. I deemed the original calendula dry enough to put away, as well as the thyme, sage, and sweet marjoram that were hanging. The marjoram smelled so much different after it was dried. Almost a tart scent.
One thing I know about curry plant is that you can't stomach it, kind of like large hunks of lemon grass. Despite the fact that it smells like curry, its supposed to add a sage-like flavor to things. The one thing I saw it officially used for was being stuffed under the skin of a whole chicken and then removed before serving, supposedly by British folk. I noticed when I harvested it that the curry smell became more lemony, so I wonder if it does have a hint of lemon in the flavor.

warning: blood/wound description

So today my mom asked me to feed my iguana, Rex. We give him either greens from outside or a pre-made frozen salad that we keep in the downstairs freezer next to his cage. I went down to get a container of the salad. I forgot that I had left one of the used pie dishes we feed him in on top of the fridge. This was directly over where the door shuts. As I opened it, it started to fall. I heard it start to fall and grabbed for it. Normally this would have been fine but it hit somehow on the door in mid air, shattering it into huge, razor sharp pieces. Then it hit the floor and shattered into a bajillion more pieces. At this point, I already knew my hand had been cut.
Mom yelled down "Are you ok?" to which I replied "I'm bleeding." As she was coming down with paper towels, I tried to get to the bathroom because it was really bleeding badly and ended up stepping on small shard, which started my foot bleeding. She cleaned up my foot and threw a quick bandage on and then I held some paper towels on my thumb as she tried to get the glass and blood cleaned up before the cats got into everything. After a while we had to pull the paper towels off and put on a telfa pad and then I had to hold my thumb up high for the rest of the day. Then I had to shower with a bag on my hand.
As it turns out, the glass sliced a large portion of my finger pad off of my righ thumb. It will likely take a long time to heal.
Note: If you have to take damage to your hand, try to avoid the thumb. It is high in nerve endings, has its own extra strong pulse (aka more blood flow), and the muscles/tendons that control it extend down into your arm making it quite difficult to keep immobile.

Herb Harvest

Today I harvested a big bunch of my herbs. Mostly because the calendula really needed harvesting again and because a lot of them I had trimmed without harvesting previously. From left to right they are: apple mint (because it is flowering and going nuts and I want to see how well it dries), rosemary, French terragon, sweet majoram, golden sage, calendula (pot marigold), flat Italian parsley, English thyme, and Greek oregano.
They are not really in an enclosed shed but they are out of direct sunlight. I may move them in once they are fairly well starting to dry/rain is on the way. We just got rain last night and its already pretty dry out there again.
So far I have discovered that thyme is really hard to harvest and parsley shouldn't be allowed to get leggy.
My hands reek of oregano.

Foodiness

This is an awesome pizza I made for lunch about a week or two ago. I started with a left over piece of Kangaroo brand greek pita/flatbread, topped it with a bit of olive oil (so the pizza sauce would not make it soggy) and then some Contina's Pizza Squeeze. After that I added a small can of sliced black olives and some diced yellow tomatoes. After that I sprinkeled on some powdered parmesan cheese, some shredded mozzarella, and some shredded Colby Jack.
I baked it with the oven set to convect (just to make sure the mound of toppings got evenly heated) at 425 degrees F.
It came out nice and crispy, despite my mass of wet toppings.

The song list!

Definite songs:

• Incubus - Dig
• Incubus - Stellar
• Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love
• Muse - Starlight
• Muse - Invincible
• Muse - Endlessly
• REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You (or cover)
• Foo Fighters - Everlong
• Finger 11 - One Thing
• Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love
• Brown Eyed Girl (version tbd)
• Golden Earring - Radar Love
• Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (studio version)
• Coheed & Cambria - Wake Up
• Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
• Lifehouse - You and Me
• No Doubt - Running
• 311/The Cure - Love Song
• The Beatles - Real Love
• The Fray - She Is
• The Fray - Look After You
• Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride*
• Styx - Lady
• Muse - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
• Saves the Day - Nightingale
• Panic at the Disco - When the Day Met the Night

Possible other songs:

• Hoobastank - The Reason
• Muse - Hysteria
• Muse - Falling Away with You
• Ten Foot Pole - Love Song (Tesla cover)
• Incubus - Love Hurts
• Kill Hannah - Lips Like Morphine
• Kylie Minoge - Can't Get You Out of my Head
• Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment
• Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
• The Used - Blue and Yellow
• The Used - I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes)
• 311 - Amber
• Ramones - She's the One
• Guster - Satellite

* Check to see if Steppenwolf can play live