One victory out in the garden

Look at those luscious little gems! The photo is of my fourth harvest of our strawberry patches, and the biggest harvest to date.
The biggest berries came from the plants I gave up for dead last year. They didn’t like the place I planted them previously so I moved them to a nicer, [...]

Exchanging G’day Mate for Howdy Y’All

Here we thought Mr. Skeeter was a regular pup of mainly Australian Cattle Dog origin. The last three weeks have been interesting, as Mr. Skeeter made the decision he’s an Australian Cattle Hound Dog. He’s been baying like our hound doggie, Miss Virginia, but in the cattle dog’s higher pitched voice.
While [...]

Dehydration saves the day

For dinner, we had this amazing lentil dish a good friend gave me the recipe for. There was one hitch, I discovered mid-stream. We were all out of fresh garlic and garlic powder. Yipes! I was prepared, however. Back in October after I penned this, I followed some advice from Linda [...]

Getting my garden groove on

I put some plants in the ground yesterday. Lew and I visited a master hobby gardener and bought some of her organic tomato plants (they’re gi-normous and most have some fruit on them already). We brought home a yellow pear, roma, two beefsteak and a brandywine. They all needed to be staked in [...]

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Summer pick-me-up

I bought a small bouquet of lilies at TJs the other day. The yellow flowers and greenery were eye pleasing but looked a little lonely in the vase. From my own garden, I added a couple of roses, two peony stems with multiple flowers on them, and some magenta sweet william to [...]

Indulge me for a moment, please read my TMI and think about it

Today is the first day off I’ve had since Memorial Day weekend where I did not have to be somewhere. It was semi-glorious to be able to sleep in a bit. Bark and howl does go on, as scheduled, but I tried to ignore it for a while. I was fairly successful in dismissing [...]

Guess what I had for breakfast

Pancakes?  No.  A bowl full of peanut butter Cap’t Crunch?  Thought about it, but no. Nothing?  Wrong-o.
I had Bob’s Red Mill Creamy Brown Rice Farina, with a small handful of cashews and dried cranberries tossed in, about two teaspoons of ground flax seed sprinkled on and fresh, just picked strawberries, sliced, on top. Before [...]