At the risk of sounding a bit…crazy…I have decided to share a little piece of my existence with you all that has absolutely nothing to do with gardening, canning, chickens or bees. Brace yourselves… I have been blessed to live my entire life in a fairly small community (~70,000 people) that is incredibly rich in history, culture and tradition. Here in…
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…to drive a woman crazy? Apparently the answer is 150 pounds because that’s what we harvested last Friday evening and, at this point, I’m feeling a bit crazy about the process of processing 150 pounds of delicious (unforgiving) apples. Let’s go back a bit and explain how we acquired so many apples… I have a friend named Madonna (yes, that’s…
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Happy Monday everyone! Amazingly, in this time of bountiful harvests, I haven’t actually been harvesting very often! Not because there wasn’t anything to harvest, but because other life-happenings have been getting in the way. Nothing to worry about though, everything’s fine…just very busy these days (is this becoming a theme/habit?). Remarkably, I failed to even notice last week that I…
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Last night we harvested a ton of apples. Not from our trees, but from our friend’s parent’s trees. We filled four boxes and a bag and didn’t even make a dent in the bounty that is growing on just two of their trees. The deal was, free apples in trade for canned up apple sauce and sliced apples…Apple Pie in…
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Pull it Out, Clean it Up
I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year. The cool, crisp mornings make for the perfect temperature in which to enjoy tea on the back porch, easy sleeping throughout the night and more comfortable days without air conditioning (I work in a historic, adobe building). Such temperatures also mean, however, that the garden is beginning to take on…
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Believe it or not, we are still working on the big garage organization project we started…ummm…I don’t know…months ago! Yes, the shelves have been built, but there is still some clutter and there are still a couple of walls that need to be painted. However, one of the more exciting projects is the shelf Tool Lady has created that has…
