The veggie patch is up and running… just in time to shut down for winter. I’ve finally got the gate up, with the little sign I made attached. Oops, I thought the board slanted the other way, so the screw holes don’t line up… oh well!
Yes, this is how I spent my Sunday evening: making pickles. Twenty jars of pickles. Dill pickles, bread n’ butter pickles, and brown sugar pickles. Some are for Christmas gifts, and some are just for Josh… who ate another two jars last night. Come to think of it, maybe I shouldn’t be facilitating that. I’m […]
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We had some really, really bad news this week. Kitty had been acting kind of sluggish for the last two days, so on the third day we took him in for a checkup. He’d just seen the vet three weeks earlier for his annual checkup and passed with flying colors, so we thought maybe he […]
We just opened the first jar of pickles from my first batch ever. We could have opened it two weeks ago, but I was so nervous, first because I wasn’t sure of the recipe (the vinegar/salt ratio seemed awfully high, while the dill was low), and secondly because the garlic turned blue. I’m not kidding. […]
I was all excited this week, because my friend and coworker burnt her house down (yes, on purpose – long story) and I get her old dishwasher. Seeing as our previous one was a 1970-80’s model (fake wood paneling on the front and everything: only two switches, “off” and “on”), I was really excited to […]
That’s what veggie gardening is. (whoda thunk it?) I’m taking an aerobics class that meets three times a week, but at the same time I’m doing so much work getting the garden ready for the winter that I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to aerobics. Not really because I’m […]