Here’s the lettuce bed in April, it is now covered with a shade cloth tent over all of it.. we should have salads till October is all goes well..or even longer. Blue Columbine in April, thank you Hand to Land for this columbine! I have several now, this is the biggest. My red poppies usually [...]
Argentina and Bolivia In June of 1986, when I was in my early 30′s, my Mom passed away after a long battle with cancer. Shortly after that I received a bit of money and as I already had the travel bug, took it as a sign to go to South America. I had friends in [...]
New photo album added: 1986: South America – Argentina & Bolivia Back to the Gallery Index
I am developing a new, for this blog, photo gallery set up. It is still a bit clunky, in that I have to do too much cross posting, but I will figure it out eventually. Here’s the Gallery Index.
First dusting of snow December 2012.
Those that know me know I have been struggling with digestive problems for quite awhile. Things really started ramping up almost 2 years ago. Since that post I also have had several ‘up all night with incredible pain’ attacks that I supposed was the gall bladder passing stones. Well finally got that ultra sound done [...]
Tried my hand at another dough/crust recipe. This time a tomato tart. This was a french tart dough with lots of butter, again it was a bit hard to work with as it just became to soft, but all in all it tasted and baked up great. I put a very thin layer of Dijon [...]
My first try at canning blueberry jam.. I think it set up nicely..only time will tell. And summer finally begins with basil for pesto making, squash starting to come on, and the tomatoes not too far behind, I hope. We still have a huge lettuce and salad mix bed feeding us and friends going strong, [...]