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I made some escabeche a couple of days ago. I really enjoy fermented veggies!

I picked a gallon ziplock full of salal berries and I plan to make salal mead! Ive made blackberry mead before but never salal mead. Here are a couple of pics of the prep work --

I saw this old piano turned into a planter box this week! What a clever idea! I've seen people turn beds with cute headboards into planters and also have seen boots turned into planters, but this is a first!

I have learned something interesting about African daisies that I wanted to share. I bought a small African daisy back in May at a local nursery. It started out very dainty, with free flowing stems and a few delicate blooms. I put it in a pot on the stern of my sailboat and took it sailing...

My lovely friend brought me these beautiful flowers from her garden!

Morning glories are under appreciated. They are quite lovely!

I walked to a farmers market today and saw these flowers on the way there!

We saw a kinda cool/creepy event while out on the water. There was an eagle swooping back and forth super close to the water, swooping for like 10 minutes. We initially thought he was hoping to grab a fish. Then we noticed a small duck (hen) diving under water every time the eagle swooped...

My daughter's sunflowers! So summery!

My daughter grew lots of romaine lettuce this year. This is one of five large bowls so far. We made a scrumptious Caesar salad with it yesterday for a big dinner party! So fresh and yummy!

My son took this pic this past last week.

I saw these yesterday and wanted to share!

I'm trying to start a lemon bush. I grew this little sprout from seed. It looks happy!

The blooms are getting so pretty on this cactus!

I finished my recipe for dandelion root bitters yesterday after gathering and washing dandelion roots and chopping them up. Adding a bunch of fresh ginger root slices, and the zest from 2 oranges, I put all of these ingredients in a jar covered in vodka. Now I wait 28 days to see how it...

I just got these African daisies this week. Oh I love the colors!! 😍 I'm going to take them for a cruise! Hope they enjoy sailing!

So I am planning to make another old fashioned recipe of bitters. It has dandelion roots, orange peel slices, ginger root slices, and vodka. This pic shows the washing process!

This flower almost never blooms but when it does bloom the red color is to die for! 😍

Here they are! The cactus is especially interesting to me because I have had it for 12 years and this is the first time I've ever seen it bloom!

This is my daughter's cat and one of my all time favorite cats! She has the cutest personality ever!