What a great Saturday I have had. My husband and I both had friends over, and it was a great day, even if it poured most of the day.
Yesterday morning Mona and I headed over to a meetup (with another group) and met some great people. On the way out, they gave us these beautiful flowers!
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| you can't really see anything but the string hanging down from my apron |
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| It says 'NO TOUCH! yogurt" It was a small sticky note...and a bad marker! |
One of the things that my friend Mar and I love doing is coloring. No joke...I like it more now that I'm an adult than I did when I was in school. This is our latest...project. If it were more zoomed you could see how her side is perfectly even and beautiful and mine is...well me. Not always inside the lines and uneven. Pretty much sums up my personality-messy but effective...
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| It is hard to see, but it is apparently a picture of a sorcerer's chamber. The orange thing at the bottom was supposed to a lion. |
Last night the husband and I hit up Costco for some serious produce. Mona and I shared some of hers as well, so I now have mangos, cantaloupe, pineapple, avocados, a sweet potato, spinach and 2 asperagus shoots. I can eat asperagus, but no I don't like it. This fact is making it really hard for me to finish. I sort of gave mona most of it.
The menu this week worked pretty well. The hubs either ate a couple of bites of my food or had it for left overs, which worked pretty well. I ended up cooking the hamburger meat yesterday, and then we can make tacos whenever we want. We ate at Costco last night since we were there, which made me feel a little guilty but my husband doesn't deal well with hunger, so I had to feed to beast. Here are some yummy produce shots...Twice a year we apparently have to mulch our front garden. This is okay in theory, but I didn't know jack about mulching. I made a big mistake. Instead of getting the more expensive stuff that is darker, I got the cheap red crap that it looked like they had put down before. Dyed...wood. What was I thinking? Basically, I don't now won't eat anything out of the garden (there was an herb garden) because God knows what chemicals they use. Oh well...lesson learned. Next time, I'm getting cedar or pine. Does anyone know anything about using dyed mulch? I've never mulched before. I'm glad I was planning on simply container gardening anyways!
Before the red mulch fiastco I pulled out a bunch (no seriously, it takes over) of mint and decided to make mint lemonade from a recipe I found online. It's good...I've had way too much. I ran out of lemon juice...two bottles. I should be shot for using it, but I had it on hand and...they did all the work for me! I just had to measure it, right? It was a good project for 9pm.
That is it for tonight! I'm thinking tomorrow will be low key. I will try to get some pictures of our front garden now that it is mulched, even if I will grimace every time I look at it...just a little.
You can pick up all the mulch and buy some bags of compost and garden soil and make a go of it for this year. You may want to consider doing some container gardens also. I happen to have a large wash tub available as well as a small amount Mel's mix we use for our raised bed gardens, if you would like help. As for the mint, dig up a clump, take a plastic garden pot with the bottom cut off, plant the pot in the soil up to the rim and plant the clump of mint into the pot. Then dig out all the other mint roots and this should tame the mint by keeping the roots from spreading. Good luck
ReplyDeleteThanks:). I've got like 5 containers that I'm going to plant. two of them are the same size as the ones Lily's family had tomatoes in last year. I'm sort of excited. I think the first year is experimentation and now I sort of know what I want...
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