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    Peanut Butter & Honey Popcorn

    It is as delicious as it looks and sounds and is super easy!   Scoop some honey and some peanut butter (there is no measuring, just do it) into a pot and heat over a low flame on the stove for a few minutes while your popcorn pops (we love our air popper). Then, simply drizzle your warm peanut butter…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact!  17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple…an itty bitty Cherokee Purple.  While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house for a couple of weeks in April and May, getting…

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    Overdue

    This project, with it’s beautiful colors and good intentions, is way overdue.  The baby for whom it is intended came early, and I am running behind…way behind… There’s another blanket in my heart that is calling to be crocheted for another baby that came early as well.  But first I will complete this one, with love and care, for the…

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    Cabbage Destruction

    This is the first year we’re attempting to grow cabbage.  It all started out great and full of hope.  Then, the cabbage worms struck.  We started picking them off one by one…which was nearly impossible, but worked…mostly…though not before many, many holes were chewed. It seems that the worms are gone now, but in their place are these itty bitty…

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    Trout – Catch ’em, Clean ’em & Eat ’em!

    Tool Lady grew up fishing in Missouri and absolutely loves it…though she doesn’t do it as often as she would like here in NM.  Last Friday, however, she practiced some self-care, took the day off of work and went fishing in the Pecos River.  The limit you can catch is five, and she met her limit!!! I, personally, have only…

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    Harvesting Turnip Seeds

    This is me, in all my gardening glory (hmmm…) holding up the biggest turnip-gone-to-seed-space-hog ever!  Never did I think that one turnip would get so incredibly big!  Well, not the actual turnip, but all the foliage that went along with it! Of all the seeds we’re attempting to save this year from over-wintered veggies (turnips, beets, carrots, kale and radishes),…