While making scalloped potatoes yesterday, I wanted to find a way to use the carrots from our garden I had picked that morning. If they had been larger, I would have just sliced them thin and layered them with the potatoes, but these were on the small side. So I got creative. Here is how … Continue reading Not quite a recipe: three cheese scalloped potatoes with kielbasa and carrots
Month: August 2020
First Blush
Our grapes are finally starting to ripen! These are now about twice the size of what they were like, fully ripe, our first summer here. 🙂 The Re-Farmer
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The window is in
After several coats on of paint on the outside, and one on the inside, the screened window for the old basement is now fully cured and back where it belongs! It's one thing to have that bright blue on something that is in the yard. Quite another to have it on something that is part … Continue reading The window is in
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I found a little friend! So exciting. :-)
Okay, before I show you what I found while picking chokecherries, I'll share with you why I am so super excited about it. When I was quite young, I spotted a caterpillar on the leaves of a crabapple tree. It was unlike any I had seen before. Not only that, but I found three more! … Continue reading I found a little friend! So exciting. 🙂
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Clean up: to the chokecherry trees
Normally, I would not have done clean up on a Sunday, but the chokecherries needed to be picked, and we couldn't get at the two trees with the ripest berries. Which turned out to be 4 trees... 😀 Here are the ones behind the garden beds where the old wood pile used to be. The … Continue reading Clean up: to the chokecherry trees
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Little Extras
I've just come back from adding a second layer of Plasti Dip to the picnic table legs and rain barrel, before starting on cooking. Then I realized I completely forgot to share a couple of things in my gardening post! This is one of them; a friend among the cucamelons! When watering the garden beds, … Continue reading Little Extras
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How does the garden(s) grow?
I realized I've neglected to take progress photos of some of our garden beds, so I got a few this morning. Here are our two potato beds. I was shooting blind, because my phone's screen went completely black in the sunlight. Still, you can see the potatoes among the mulch, separated by a path of … Continue reading How does the garden(s) grow?
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First coat
This morning, I applied the first coat of spray-on rubber to the legs of the picnic table, and the cracks on the rain barrel. This is the product I am using. I have never used this stuff, or this brand, before. It was the only one on the shelf, so it's not like I had … Continue reading First coat
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It’s a cat’s life
The cats are melting in this heat, too! This was how I found David, yesterday. This was how Cheddar was keeping me company while I was on the phone, this morning. You can sure tell these cats feel safe with us! 😀 The Re-Farmer
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Melting
It was a hot day to be taking my mother for her medical appointment in a van with no air conditioning! It was already cooling down when I took the above screencap. 28C/82F, with the humidex bringing it to 35C/95F From the weather radar, I don't expect to get that predicted thunderstorm; it appears to … Continue reading Melting
