Note for next year: buy the plants that grow the small cucumbers!

Really, this is starting to be as bad as the zucchini jokes. I gave away six cucumbers today already. I will hopefully remember to bring some to Kaelikat tomorrow. I think the goats will get some of the larger ones with breakfast (because they are probably seed-y and less tasty.

( this is what 20lbs of cucumbers looks like )

Apparently one of my Leghorn chickens has decided that this is a weekly sport. The eggs are yummy enough, but I don't have good storage for them. So - such a pity - I just have to eat them.

Our chicken adventure is still going well. We've gotten 10 eggs in 8 days. Six of those eggs are brown, which I'm assuming means they are coming from the red star chicken. So one chicken is producing 60% while the two leghorns are producing 20% each (I'm guessing ( Read more... )

My mother was a "crunchy granola mom" before that term really existed. She had a huge kitchen garden even before I was born, and it only got bigger as the years went on. Her father also gardened for food as well as for flowers, and both adults thought that children should be included at all stages of the garden. So my youngster years were spent in ( Read more... )

On Monday night, Achaosofkittens slaved over the preparations for a crock-pot version of shepherd's pie (beef, not lamb). On Tuesday morning, the house smelled amazing. He finished it and we ate it last night. I thought that the tomato taste made it more like "shepherd sloppy joe" to me. Achaosofkittens also commented that the crock pot can't ( Read more... )

While my Kashi Go Lean has been... ok... as a breakfast cereal, I'm interested in adding more protein to my breakfast. Achaosofkittens has been making egg pies for a while, but that's too much work for me. I'm all about lazy easy cooking and easy breakfast preparations during the work-week ( Read more... )

As of yesterday's trip to our farmer's market, it is officially the start of my Fruitivore season. I bought peaches, cherries, blueberries, and plums. For lunch, I had a huge fruit salad that included all four of my new acquisitions! The only non-local thing in my salad was the last banana from the bunch I bought for my parents' visit ( Read more... )

Wandering the back garden in search of blackberries is a good way to cause large chunks of time to go >POOF< into the breeze.

Most of the plants are planted. Achaosofkittens put in the watering system, as much as he could. There are a few pieces and parts that need to be replaced, we need more hose length to get to the potatoes and the just-sprouted pumpkin plants, and we need to put on the timer. But the two beds (watermelons, tomatoes, basil, and cucumbers) are all set ( Read more... )

"Sensa for Men" is running a radio advertisement right now that includes the line "Men, if you are not actively trying to lose weight, then chances are, you deserve to be fat."

This makes my skin crawl for two entirely separate reasons. ( RANT AHEAD )