Sep
10
2008
Our garden and local farms have been keeping me on my feet for the past couple of days. I’ve been cooking and canning and freezing all the produce that’s been available.
One of the best ways to celebrate and enjoy all this good food is to make ratatouille. It’s a melange of the most wonderful [...]
Tags: Cooking, Garden
Apr
19
2008
I was bitten by the gardening bug on Thursday and re-potted some straggling specimens from my portable garden (which is what you end up with when you love to garden but have to move for the second summer in a row). My hands were dirty and my plants looked much perkier in their new containers. [...]
Tags: Garden, Photography, quilting, sewing, Sewing, spring, weather
Apr
18
2008
I missed the month of March and a couple of weeks of April. The days passed me by while I was suffering from unrelenting migraines and the haziness brought on by medications and too many trips to doctors’ offices.
I’m feeling better now, and starting to notice how beautiful it’s been. The fact that daffodils are [...]
Tags: flowers, foliage, Garden, Health, migraine, season