There were football games for Vince to watch today so he sat downstairs with the dogs and I had almost the whole day to myself in the kitchen. The beans are in the canner now and, as soon as they are out of the canner and I can get pictures, I will have a blog post with how I do the ham and beans. I started my fun day in the kitchen getting my sourdough baking back on track. I had ...
This & That
I think this goes along with getting older but I feel like I've been so busy but then I sit down to write about the last few days and . . what did I do that I can share? NOTHING interesting. First . . the weather! I am so tired of the heat and the lack of rain. I don't remember the last time we got rain. I think it's been at least two months. The grass is brown and crunchy. Anything we aren't ...
Growing Garlic
Because I think I'm a pretty good garlic grower, and because I get questions about growing garlic, I'm going to write this post and update it with photos and more info throughout the growing season. The new info will be in a new blog post but will be copied and pasted into this post and I will keep a link to it in the sidebar. This is about half of what I grew this past season. I've given ...
These Two Dogs!
They say it's playing but they spend so much time being so rough with each other, it doesn't look like fun to me but . . I'm not a dachshund! Their favorite thing to do is to go outside and chase a ball. It's finally gotten to . . not "cool" but at least not so hot in the evenings that I don't have to worry about them getting overheated. I can go out and throw the ball and let them chase it and ...
Fall Garden
Yesterday I picked up six packs of broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage plants. I don't have a lot of luck with a cold weather garden. According to Accuweather, our highs are going to be in the upper 90s for about the next 6 - 7 days, with at least one day having a heat index of 99 degrees. Then, within the next 30 days, our night lows will be in the 30's. We don't get a lot of conditioning ...
Tortoise Shell Cat Trivia
Please don't get the idea that I have nothing else to do . . good grief . . what is wrong with me? I have so much I should be doing. But I was reading about tortoise shell cats and to make this post ever more absurd, I'm not a cat lover. I have Boots because he showed up at our house and I do love him but he's not like most cats. He doesn't rub on me. He rarely meows. He doesn't go upstairs ...