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I believe the ocean is just a bit collection of little drops of rain. Thrift is a collection of little things that you do. The result is a usable amount of cash that you can put toward your needs or wants. It's all a game, and I want to play it well. |
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We still have lettuce!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
My husband put a cold frame over some lettuce that came up late (planted itself) when we started having frosts in September. We are still harvesting yummy buttercrunch lettuce! It even survived one night that was almost zero!
I will send a photo when my dog food comes in.
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Frost tonight
Saturday, September 16, 2006
The weather man says it will be 39, and we have learned to subtract five or ten degrees. We live in an old river bed, and frost settles here. The wind is howling and it's in the 40's. The garden is keeping my sweet husband busy! So far he has brought in bushels of tomatoes, eggplant, corn, plums, pears, squashes and Snack Jack pumpkins (yummy hulless seeds). Now he's aiming for the basil. I still haven't frozen pesto, and we really love it. We have finally finished juicing apples! The lovely, rose-colored juice is sealed in jars. We did tomatoes yesterday. Tomorrow it will be pesto before church and probably salsa verde after church. I think the Good Lord understands. The garden has been amazingly productive this year!
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Runaway cucumbers
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
We have gone for years without a decent cucumber. Now our vines are blessing us with tons of cucumbers!! I have already put up 35 pints of sweet pickle sticks, and today I started brining 20 pounds of dill pickles and 10 pounds of cucumber chunks. There's still plenty to take to the gals at the courthouse who are so nice to me. I don't mind putting up extras, because there is the memory of all those cucumber-less years.
The Kosher dills are my favorites, because when I was in my 20's I used to visit a little ice cream parlor/deli combination and buy their incredible giant pickles. Some of them weighed a pound. Sometimes I ate the whole thing in one sitting. They were as good as the ice cream to me!
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