Recent content by Lavender2

Salsa is my favorite, of all the things we can. Good for you @thistlebloom ! :cool: Glad your tomatoes came through for you! I had a great crop of onions, garlic and peppers so of course my tomatoes flopped. It's rare that I don't have enough for at least a batch. We may try the farmers market...

Congrats on the great find! I can't even imagine processing a truck load of apples. :hide We found a nice man on craigslist selling apples from his small hobby orchard for 90 cents per pound. Huge Honeycrisp and Haralson, with minimal spraying. He kindly invited us to his hard apple cider...

:lol: .. And people spend hundreds on a machine, when all they need is a few paper clips and a creative mind! Ingenious! I probably would have left work for an emergency... and came back with coffee. :D The first thing I think about in a power outage is, where is my camp coffee pot and we...

The melons I grew are 'Hearts of Gold', an heirloom that used to be grown commercially in the mid-west. They all weighed between 2 1/2 and 3 lbs. Looks like you had a great harvest! I will have to try 'Rich Sweetness' . I love trying new things and they're too pretty to pass up. Thanks for the...

What a precious photo! And a group of kids who will remember their first pumpkins (and you) forever! :love

Well, their color has thrown me off. I checked them last Friday and one slipped from the vine, had a bit of sweet melon smell. Before I could get in the house and get a photo dh had cut it up and ate half of it. :eek: He raved about the best melon he's ever tasted, and he thoughtfully saved me...

What @Carol Dee said, and heavily mulch the area for at least a year, watching for determined shoots that survived the smother. At least it does not have an annoying tap root to deal with, but it continually sends out shoots to spread. Get it before it goes to seed. Years ago I brought the...

:D Our atrium door seems to be a frog magnet, I have a lot of experience at frog catching. Tip: Throwing a dish towel on them increases your chance of a catch by about 50%. :lol: It's even more fun when they get away and the game turns into hide and seek. Fun little guys, they will peep until...

Happy Birthday @dewdropsinwv ! I hope you feel like you're 26 today and have a great day!

I had one like that arrive here in Spring. Chubby, fluffed up little thing sat near the feeder for about a week. Good thing you had some juice out for her. They're so fun to watch. There are still some stragglers here, I saw two at the feeder yesterday. Usually when one pokes another at the...

Wow, that is a big one! I don't think I have ever seen one that big. Great shot too! They're so cute, except for the ones that ride on the door and plop down in the house, treating me to a long game of catch me if you can.

Whipped Cream ? Sugar Sugar ? Wedding Cake ? I think I'm hungry. :D Morning Blizzard Angels Wings ETA- Stunning new lilies @catjac1975 ! :love

I was pregnant when I was 25, I would rather not feel like that again. :D

Yeah, that kurbis thing was a whole ordeal. Dh's brother went to Germany and had a salad at a restaurant that had delicious orange cubes in it. He asked what it was and they told him kürbis. It has to be made with Cinderella pumpkin, they said. It took quite a bit to find a recipe I felt...

Thanks, Mary. We don't have room to grow them every year. My rotation bed has cantaloupe in it this year. @Carol Dee , that's funny, the house eating pumpkin! Great looking garden, good thing they don't mind pumpkins in the cemetery!