It's been at least four years since I left home for a week and I've forgotten how hard it is to get caught up and back on track. This morning I was getting ready to make meatballs and sauce and decided it would be a good morning to go to the Farmers' Market so we did and we made a good haul. I think the only thing I forgot to include was a quart of honey. Shown and I'll try to go left to ...
The Price You Pay For Leaving!
I should have taken a picture of our yard when we got home. It rained and stormed and rained and stormed . . several times while we were gone. We were lucky we didn't have any damages. They had to cancel this month's Food Truck Friday in Carthage because the park has so much damage. There are so many trees totally uprooted or with the tops completely twisted out, and way too many houses with tarps ...
A Week Away
First, I feel like I need to apologize. Years ago, I would say on the blog when I was leaving town but these days, with the crazy happenings that go on, I feel it's better not to say we're going to be gone and I kinda felt guilty that I wasn't posting much and hadn't explained. We left here Friday, May 3, at about 5:45 a.m. and drove 11 hours to my uncle's to spend some time with him. He had ...
A Bit of Stitching
I have a lot of catching up to do. When I last stitched on And God Saw, Markup told me it would be completed July 17 if I kept up at the same rate of stitching. A few days of very little stitching and when I picked it up yesterday, Markup said it would be finished some time in November. Nope, not going to let that happen. I have as much fun trying the best the Markup completion date as I do ...
Fig Trees
We both love figs. I love them fresh, in jams, fig preserves, freeze dried . . I can't think of any way I wouldn't love figs. My grandma had a huge fig tree. I was a child but I could walk up under the branches that touched the ground and sit under the tree and eat figs til an adult found me and made me stop eating them. In Texas, we had 6 or 7 fig trees and they were great producers there. ...
A Small Garden Tour
I understand that no everyone has a desire to garden, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't think I've told this story on here before but I've thought about it so maybe I have. On our way to town, there's a mobile home part and the mobile homes are pretty close and there isn't much space but at one that I can see from the road, they've brought in soil and built up a little raised bed. It's ...