Wednesday's Child

The peppers are turning red.  In the house.  I gave up on the sun doing the work and have started cutting green bell peppers that show a ...

The ups and downs of diet this time around--well, I seem to have lost my patience.  But then, I contemplated the past SEVEN YEARS and I d...

The end of the garden season seems to be fast approaching.  Today I made up a half gallon jar of refrigerator pickles, using the worn scr...

Now is the time of year when the more "shrubby" perennials shine.  The Russian Sages.  The Salvia. The Veronicas.  In this pict...

This blog has actually been (and still is) an open journal of what I do (or don't do) over a period of days.  I tried to blog each da...

Another blogger here in Maine (soulemama) is already roasting pans of tomatoes for the freezer.  We, here at my house, north of that loca...

I collected a bag of turnips in the fridge over a period of a week or two.  Yesterday, the second of my days off this weekend, I decided ...

The sun was setting.  We were drinking.  Then eating.  What's not to love about that?  Well, the Red Sox won.  That night.  G and I s...

I like Wednesday.  Yes, It's the "hump" in the week.  Get over it and you roll south into the weekend. But I also like Wedn...

July is old news and August is arriving.  With clouds and 30% chance of rain.  This summer has been quite odd.  Global Warming?  Who know...

I've already used two large zucchini to make a "pizza" type casserole from my low carb days and Saturday I made a very larg...

It's the season for flowering perennials.  The ones being delivered to me at work (to put out for sale) are very full, very tall and ...

I have wanted a cozy little kitchen like this one in many segments of my life.  I think a small, tiny space is safer when my life is out ...

I long for muted, cool places.  Out of the sun, humidity and grit.  I am sticky and gritty most of the days at work.  Cleaning petunias i...

I found this picture of Fennel and Snakeroot on one of the blogs I get in my "mail".  I believe the snakeroot is South African ...

G cleaned out all the history and "cookies" and I was unable to find my picture file.  This picture popped up all by itself.  ...

These peas are from another year.  The ones this year are still small in the pods.  Not that that keeps me from picking and eating (right...

Peonies are a thing of the past.  Strawberries have a few more days and that will be done as well.  The garden has a few pea pods (it...

Not yet.  But soon.  My red onions are still tiny. We are up to our ears in cucumbers.  And that's a very good thing as I love eati...

First I bought it in a low growing shrub.  Then the heather which is this green in summer and bright orange red in autumn.  Now I have th...