and tell her I’m having a clearance sale on compact hybrid coaches!
These are the “Squmpkins” I picked this morning. That’s a fair rendering of their color- sunny, not quite orange. They look like lemons on steroids, They have ridges like pumpkins.
They were fruitful and multiplied. Anything that color has gotta be full of vitamins and [...]
The dog days have arrived! It’s not very hot for August, but it sure is sultry! Today is a tomato canning day, so after showering and dressing for the day, pups and I headed out back to do some picking. So I was outside all of 20 minutes and I’m soaked head to toe. Had [...]
Last year, I grew scallop summer squash, green zucchini, and my old standby, New England pie pumpkins in the garden. Truth to tell, I’m not that big on squash, unless you bread it and fry it, perhaps with some ranch dressing on the side! There was so much, I was chopping up zucchini and [...]
A few days ago I took a picture of the poppy pods shooting up in the garden. They’ve decided to give a show, so I snapped another picture of them. We didn’t have these in California- I think they like cold winters…
Then since we were outside I took pictures of the doggies. You’ll notice they [...]
Once when my daughter was about 2 1/2, I was standing in the kitchen tearing up spinach for a salad. The Little One got very distraught and in a very loud little kid voice said, “MAMA, PEOPLE AREN’T SUPPOSED TO EAT LEAVES!!!!” Normally, no. Unless it’s lettuce.
Anyhow, we have a row of golden ball turnips [...]
This is an inspirational story that was making the rounds years ago- in the very early days of AOL. Oddly enough, I had the worst time finding it! Found it on the website of the John Mark Ministries down in Melbourne, Au (thank you!)No idea who wrote it, but it gives everyone things to think [...]
Here I am with pictures of jars again!
This is the “first ever by me” canned beef! I bought two of those very tough looking round roasts, cut it into cubes (I set aside part of one to have for dinner that night) and cooked them up with onion and garlic in my big skillet. Then [...]
It’s a bright sunny day so I took the camera outside to make an update. We’ve had a lot of rain and everything is very green. Some of the neighbors have trees in full flower, but the apple and cherry trees in our yard haven’t opened yet (coming attraction!)
We’ve got lots of rhubarb!
And the [...]
It’s Friday, let’s dance! This is Tony Orlando and he must have been about 17! It was written by Barry Mann (”who put the bomp in the bomp, etc”) and Cynthia Weil who had all kinds of hits in the early 60’s. They don’t write ‘em like this any more!
I used to work for a company with a division in Phoenix. The bosses were always jetting off to the great Southwest. One time, one brought me back a little cactus- the kind they sell in the airport gift shop. And we haven’t killed it! Little cactus fuzzball is now tall, spindly and at least [...]