Category: Everything Else

Local (Salem) peeps be there! Tuesday will have a lemonade stand on Sunday and she is so excited she almost can’t stand it.

I’m growing lots of yummy edibles in the yard, as you’ve seen. I’m starting to think about cooking and preserving with them. In fact the salads above were picked from out yard! I’ve also frozen quite a few gallon bags of strawberries (cored) for smoothies. I pulled out an unused calendar tonight and started writing dinner ideas on it. I didn’t look anything up special, I just used recipes (or vague ideas of things to make) that we always come back to. Here is what I have so far: BBQ (Bj) 20 Pasta salad 15 Slow cooker 18 Pizza (we…

Oh the garden. How much it gives, and not just fruits, flowers and veggies! After a long couple of days with the girls an hour out there tonight was just what I needed. I watered the things in pots (the rest is on drip, I’m trying deep watering this year vs. every day watering… So far so good). I tasted lots of berries. These honey berries, lots of strawberries (I estimate we’ve picked 25 lbs from my patch so far), a tiny few raspberries, and a lone blueberry. I picked little eggs off these things. A lot less gross than…