I cut larkspur from the garden for my table. We picked peaches from our Desert Gold peach tree. We ate lots of peaches this week; I made fruit salads and peach clafoutis. I sliced and froze peaches from the garden for us to eat later in the year. We picked a few white alpine strawberries…
For the first time ever, I have apricots and peaches ripe at the same time (usually the apricots are ripe first). This past week we enjoyed both from the garden. I watched a few shows on pbs.org for free. I harvested a few white alpine strawberries from the garden. Strawberries were on sale for $0.99 a…
I harvested the first apricots from our garden. I harvested turnips and artichokes from the garden. I made fig tarts using figs we froze from the garden last year. I watched a couple of episodes of Call the Midwife on Pbs.org. My husband had some work done on our vehicle. He had everything written…
Oregano from the garden I harvested lettuce, spinach, New Zealand spinach, Swiss chard parsley and oregano from the garden. I cut roses from the garden for the table. I sowed seeds in the garden for New Zealand Spinach, zucchini, and acorn squash. New Zealand Spinach I cut the sleeves down on two of the long-sleeved shirts…
It’s been a very busy week here, and on top of everything we’ve had our foreign exchange student here. I wasn’t sure ahead of time how much English he spoke, and so while we help him to learn new words in English, we’ve also needed to converse quite a bit in French. I’ve had a lot…
Most weeks I save by making do at home and not shopping. This week involved a lot of saving on items I needed and wanted while shopping: I love the symphony. Starting from the time I was 13, I used to save all of my babysitting money (and most people paid me $2 an hour)…
I picked more lemons from the garden. I gave the baby a haircut. I used Recyclebank points to get a free two-year magazine subscription to Better Homes and Gardens. Our bank decided to start charging $5 per paper statement. We changed to get online statements, for which they do not charge. I have been trying…
I cut daffodils from the garden for our table. I dug dandelions from the lawn. Usually, we only have a few dandelions and I dig them out, but this year we have quite a large number. I still dug them out with a trowel. My dad bought a Dragon Toes agave plant that had…
I planted seeds for Armenian cucumbers, red noodle beans, pumpkins, lettuce, basil and sunflowers in the garden. I made lemonade from our lemons. I cut arugula and picked lettuce, nasturtium flowers, and radishes from the garden. I found eggs for $0.79 a dozen at Sam’s Club (in the 5-dozen package). I bought 10 dozen. The children played…
It was so incredibly beautiful this week. I cut daffodils from the garden for the table. We celebrated a simple birthday celebration for a child at home. I harvested radishes, cilantro, snow peas, green onions, and Swiss chard from the garden. We went through clothing, packing up cold weather clothes and taking out summer clothes,…
I watched the bees working on the apple tree blossoms. I sowed seeds for lettuce, Swiss chard, alpine strawberries, New Zealand Spinach, nasturtiums, zucchini, butternut squash, radishes, and artichokes. I planted some asparagus crowns in the garden. My son and I took apart some old tomato cages and flattened them. We had made them from…
Dorsett Golden Apple Blossoms I transplanted a potted pomegranate tree that I had bought last fall into the raised bed (where the espaliered apples used to be). It can get larger in this spot than in a pot and give us more fruit. I transplanted the lettuce seedlings from the same pot into the raised…