As usual, when I haven’t written in a while it’s almost always difficult. I feel the panic rise as I think “OH MY where do I begin?”So, where do I begin? Three weeks ago we started our first sets of seeds. These ones were the ones we already had on hand and also the ones we knew would be the more difficult to start. Several types of bell peppers, hot
Temperatures have finally begun to cool and we sigh a breath of relief. The growing season is almost done which means our canning and preserving will now drop down to only small amounts each week. I cannot tell you how grateful I am though, that while there was so much work to do, each and every day, we now have so much more in our larder. But even more, I
Today I said goodbye to a dear friend of mine. Eighteen years ago we found her in a humane society office outside of Junction City, Kansas. She was tiny, very young, maybe only a few weeks old, gray colored with white paws that looked as if she had dipped each one in flour. It looked like she had mittens on her paws. So, we brought her home and named her
We did it. We finished our September challenge! And since we did not spend a single dollar during the last weekend of September (other than gas and eating out because we did not know we’d be away from home so long on Sunday) we finished the month spending a grand total of….$53.83 at local grocery stores and $432.52 at local farms, farmers markets, dairys and chicken or beef producers. Total
This weekend my husband and I watched MasterChef. The thing that I found most amusing and unusual was that a good portion of the aspiring chefs when asked what was their motivation to learn how to cook like they do answered “because I ate crap growing up and I’m tired of eating crap” Same here. Nothing against my Mom, I love her dearly, but as a child I was reared
We’re nearing the end of the first 30 days of our Challenge that we set for ourselves and I have to say, I really miss, most of all, pretzels. Small, Snyders pretzels. That was my favorite snack food at work and for almost 30 days I have not had any of those. I really miss those. Instead my snacks have been the usual grape tomatoes and sliced cucumbers, apples and
My new favorite winter squash is the Black Futsu squash! Really! I think this almost qualifies as a new love of mine!Let me just say this is the most delectable, the most tasty winter squash that so far I have yet to enjoy! We purchased our seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds because it just looked interesting. Here is their description. Rare, black Japanese squash, the fruit is flattened, round
This weekend we knew the time had come since the okra got knocked down during that storm last week. It’s time to plant the garlic. Just remember, the best time to plant, by the way, is four to six weeks before your first predicted freeze. For us in USDA determined zone 7A, that means we plant on or about mid September because our first predicted freeze is on or about
Twenty Days Now. And believe it or not we don’t feel all that deprived. We have spent $40.76 at the local grocery stores on groceries. This includes things like parmesan cheese, some Kale that we forgot to pick up at the farmers market, peppermint patties and raisins. Remember by the way, we’re allowing ourselves a total of $60 per month at the local grocery store. We have spent a total of
The end of the okra that is. We have been deciding what to do with our okra plants that, this year, didn’t really produce much. This is mostly our fault for two different reasons. We planted them too late. We planted them too few. Number 1 was a new lesson. We didn’t have this issue last year as we didn’t plant garlic two years ago.This year the garlic did not
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