Rambling around outside on a beautiful June day
It was a beautiful day and I took the camera for a walk. The century plant yucca is blooming now and it’s so pretty. Taller than me, lol. […]
Category Archives: Cooking/Food
What’s wrong with this picture?
There are green beans and then there are yellow (wax) beans, but what is this? Same seeds as the others, which are all green, lol. Must not have any chlorophyll […]
Pick it, clean it, eat it, love it!
I’ve been eating onions right along for a couple weeks, and also spinach, but it’s almost summer and now the temp agrees. The spinach leaves have been getting thinner […]
What’s growing on around here?
What would a blog from the old hippie chick be if it couldn’t include a small rant, lol. I’d like to blog about some things that are important to me, […]
Onion sets……let the gardening begin!
Serious thoughts of gardening begin when the hardware store downtown gets their onion sets. These little dandies planted and left in the ground about 6 weeks give you the […]
Those tomatoes I dehydrated………
Oh yea, I’m so glad I dehydrated a lot of them. I love soup in the winter, with a nice hunk of good bread and a piece of cheese. Those […]
Not much goes in the land fill from here
My neighbor asked if I wanted the potato peels from a big family dinner, for my compost pile…….well yes, I do! And I told her my next summer’s garden would […]
Bent and Dent store, a good way to save some money
We have a wonderful bent and dent store close to here, B B’s Grocery Outlet, and I just discovered they have a web site. http://www.bbsgrocery.com/ For anyone who can get […]
Out of denial, and into the cold……..
Time to tear down the tomato plants. Yea. The frost has cut everything off now, the cherry tree has lost all its leaves, annual things are done and perennial things […]
Making do……have we forgotten how? And does it matter?
I grew up with parents who had lived thru the Great Depression and an awful war. I heard stories from them and my grandmother about austerity, rationing of things during […]
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