I did finish Philip's costume last night/this morning, and it looks okay. It took FOREVER, so I'm really not optimistic about my own. However, A.J.'s should take a considerable less amount of time, and I started his this morning and will continue to work on it tonight ( Read more... )

I spent about three hours this afternoon digging up mulch from the garden. I'm nowhere near finished; rather, I think it will take me 3-4 more days to get it all done at this rate. Hopefully, however, Philip will be able to help me sometime in the next few days, and maybe that will shave off a day or two that it would take me by myself ( Read more... )

Last night we dipped below freezing temperatures. It's supposed to happen again tonight, and it was finally time to "put the garden to bed." After playing in the leaves yesterday afternoon, I spent about two hours taking the tomato and pepper plants down for the year. I harvested the last of the green peppers, making over three dozen in my fridge ( Read more... )

While checking out the garden today, I decided to pull several pretty green tomatoes and try a recipe I've heard talked about for years. My friend greencow (appropriately named for this topic, don't you think?) had found me a few recipes for Fried Green Tomatoes, and I pulled up the link and tried one tonight ( Read more... )

First off, a little excitement:

*squeeeee*

Ahem. As I mentioned yesterday, we harvested the first batch of ripe pumpkins. And of course, I took pictures. I'm sharing them now. :-)


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Someone push me into the shower.

I spent over two hours of quality time with my tomatoes tonight, pruning them back in the hopes that they would not topple into the zucchini. And speaking of zucchini, we found a herd (pack? gaggle? bunch?) of baby squash bugs in the front zucchini this afternoon, and it was disgusting. Philip took care of that ( Read more... )

I took my barking camera outside to take pictures of our pumpkin patch in-progress. We have some of each size imaginable, and they are all just so cute ( Read more... )

I need to make some more zucchini bread. rafferty, any chance you can swing by for some bread sometime this weekend? If you say yes, that will give me motivation to actually get the bread made. I promise it will be yummy ( Read more... )

I made up my own recipe tonight from a few different ones I found online: Zucchini & Turkey Quiche. It turned out very tasty, but the turkey left a little liquid in the center of the quiche (even though I'd tested it with a cake tester before taking it out). The top was very golden brown though, so I'm sure it was ready. It was extremely cheesy, ( Read more... )

Diet Dr Pepper Berries 'n Cream - mmmmmmm ( Read more... )