Look at all the blooms on the plum tree! It's terribly windy out there and I couldn't get a great picture but that little tree is loaded. There's still plenty of time for a freeze that could ruin everything but for a tree that's been in the ground two years, I'm happy. There's another plum tree that's about two weeks behind this one so there's hope! The elderberries have leaves so that ...
Horseradish in the Garden
I'm so predictable. Every year in late summer or early fall, I tell myself I'm not having a garden next year. It's not that it's a terrible amount of work, though it is, but after a hot, dry summer like we had last year when I had to water every day since so much is in grow bags, and our water bill was outrageous, and then all the canning . . there are so many things I'd rather be doing - ...
Green Tomato Salsa
Yesterday I made a stop by the grocery store and got the peppers (bell and jalapeno) and the cilantro that I needed to make the green tomato salsa. Lesson learned: Do all this while the produce is in the garden! I had made a batch, probably about 12 pints, during the summer and we ran out of that probably before Thanksgiving. The bell peppers were 86 cents each. The cilantro was $1.39 for ...
Green Tomatoes
Yesterday I opened a freezer and had a landslide. I'm always afraid a frozen turkey is going to fall out and hit my foot. I grabbed on thing to get out and everything started falling. I couldn't just drop whatever was in my left hand and I was trying to hold everything back with my right hand but keep my feet way back in case something did fall all the way down. As soon as I managed to stop things ...
Keeping Track
This post has Amazon affiliate links. If you purchase any of the items, I'll make a very small commission but feel free to purchase (or not purchase) any of these items wherever you find them. A couple of weeks ago when I finished all the main stitching on This I Know, I looked at the page I had printed that had the key on it. Since I mostly stitch with Vikki Clayton Silks, I print the key that ...
Leap Day Project – Day 1
I know - yesterday was Leap Day! I stopped stitching about midnight, took the picture of the project and was going to get a blog post written to post this morning and . . the internet was gone . . just not working. Without internet, we can't make cell phone calls, we can't use the cell phone as a hot spot. I could walk to the end of the driveway and get a weak signal but I wasn't doing that after ...