It’s incredibly hot here this week. We started on Sunday with a high of 112º, and the thermometer just kept going up. I picked tomatoes and basil from the garden for a caprese salad. I cooked a ham, which we sliced for sandwiches using my meat slicer. I cut grapes from the garden, which we…
I cut flowers from the garden for the house and put them in some garage sale vases. I picked the last of the blackberries from the garden. I picked apples, lettuce, basil, tomatoes , and three zucchini from the garden. I cut and dried parsley from the garden. I sowed seeds in the garden for zinnias and…
I cut flowers from the garden for the house for several arrangements. I picked 1 basketful of figs, two and a half colanders full of blackberries, and apples from the garden. We’ve never had such a large blackberry harvest. I will be covering our bushes with sheets every year from now on to protect…
I harvested 3 colanders full of blackberries and 6 baskets full of Mission figs from the garden. I canned fig jam with figs from the garden. I froze blackberries and figs to use late in the year. I harvested New Zealand Spinach, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, garlic chives, oregano, lemon verbena, and a couple of tiny bell…
I cut flowers from the garden for the entry table. I put them in a $2 urn that I bought a couple of weeks ago at a garage sale (the mirror is the $20 mirror I bought at a garage sale the first Saturday in April; my dad recently hung it for me on a…
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…