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Showing posts with label another rainy night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label another rainy night. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Hydrangea for a rainy day


Can't take any garden pictures in this rain; but here's one I took the other day of one of my hydrangeas.

Another productive paper work day ahead. It's pouring rain, like yesterday and we're expecting the same thing every day, through the weekend.

This morning I got all my boxes of seeds put away and packaged up several varieties of tomato seeds that I saved for next year. The dining room looks like a dining room again, instead of a garden supply store.

Last night I finally finished going through all my boxes (the equivalent of 8) of recipes, throwing some out and refiling all of them. Now I have one both with just bread recipes, another with desserts, two with my most used recipes and everything else is the others. Now today's project is to go through all the loose recipe clippings and notes and either transfer them to index cards and file or get them in some of my 3 ring binders.

I found an improved recipe for the no knead bread. With the addition of a few drops of red wine vinegar and using hot instead of tepid water, the bread is ready to bake in 3-4 hours instead of 12 - can't wait to try it; but probably not today. Finishing this recipe sorting and filing is probably going to take all day at least.

Monday, July 06, 2009

Butterflies love the bee balm


It's called bee balm, but I think the butterflies like it as much or even more than the bees!

I had hoped to get in the studio this morning; but I totally forgot that we had an appointment to take Bodhi to Spruce Pine for a grooming. We were out the door at 8:30am, dropped him off, then drove to Burnsville for breakfast, back to Spruce Pine to Walmart for some pick up groceries and some things from the garden center, including a new, bigger, hummingbird feeder, back to groomer to pick up Bodhi, home and unpacking groceries. Half the day gone and now I've got to start on dinner prep.

I'm trying a new summer squash casserole to go with the chicken cordon bleu. Once I get that started I'd like to fertilize my potatoes and do some weeding, if it doesn't rain again. We got a lot of rain overnight and another good shower around noon. The weeds are doing very, very well! :-(