Daily Notes- July 22nd

Vegetable Ramen Salad.  I need to dig my vegetable slicer out of the cabinet and start slicing things--hopefully not finger tips-to make this beautiful salad.  My carrots are orange not red but otherwise--I've got what's needed here.  I've made a few things from Bon Appetite magazine--just because I liked the photo.  We eat with our eyes.  Would be nice to have a cold noodle dish for supper.

The weather people say the heat is moving off.  Heavy rain tomorrow.  It looks nice and sunny outside but I haven't gone out to test the heat index.  My thermometer says it's 86 outside and humid.
My neighbor across the street has the Plumber who has come to fix the sink.  Again.

My Coffee Date friend is very busy this month so we won't get together until August.

I did, eventually, make the zucchini pickles yesterday after 5pm.  I set the kettle on to boil with the jars inside and rinsed the salted vegetables and made the brine.  Eight jars and not a smidge or drop of anything left over.  Never gotten 8 jars before.  If the garden produces enough squash--there are no flowers on the plants right now--then I'll make another batch.  But I am not buying any squash.  Nine hills of plants out there and not a flower to be seen.  Very disappointing.

Blueberry report in the Sunday paper says the berries are about 10 days late for harvest.  Like the strawberries.  Lots of You Pick places for both crops so they have notices in the paper so everyone isn't calling to find out if they should come pick.  I still have blueberry jam I made my first year with a good crop.  Not many people I know like blueberry jam.  So I no longer make it.  G did eat all the grape jelly I made that summer my friend Patty brought over a huge bowl of grapes.  The daily watering of the peach trees is increasing the size of the peaches.  The plums are falling off the tree still very small and green.

In news that might not interest any of you (anymore than the crop news) I was out in the garden and decided to taste a daylily flower bud.  I read a blog about edible foraging.  She has lots of pictures of food with daylily buds.   I picked one and took a small bite.  Crunchy.  A bit sweet but very very pleasant.  If I make the above salad- I'll go see if I have any buds on my plants and add them to the salad.

I am reading my book and did only a bit of unsewing of a block yesterday.  Now I can make a new "frame" and audition center squares.  I have to go register my car today and get a new tag after paying the tax. And visit the post office.  And that makes this Monday a busier than usual day for me. I might stop and buy some radishes for my salad.  In case the daylily has no fresh buds. And I think I will make myself an iced coffee when I get home.