Saturday, July 11, 2009
gardening + cute = busy times!
I don't know what the heck I am doing in the garden these days. I meant to learn how to prune tomato plants, or some other unknown trick to make the darn tomatoes that are supposed to be big bigger. And to keep weeds under control, and other such gardening feats. Fail fail fail! Until this week, it's been a fortnightly effort, due to rain and sickness and vacation plans. Still - what the heck? Veggies are bountiful - my garden seems to have taken into account my birthday and that there's a hungry baby in me, and I'm starting to be swamped with veggies!
I harvested 2 sorts of garlic last week - both elephant and regular white or german (or so - half of which had been somehow stolen(!) despite the electric fence), a bunch of smaller-than-they-oughta-be red onions (unfortunately - see laziness on my part in not planting soon enough!), lots of beets, some green peppers I couldn't wait for to turn red, a carrot that accidentally came up with the beets, the usual herbs - basil/parsley/rosemary, the first few days (of many I hope) of delicious sungold tomatoes, some random other not-as-rad tomatoes, some green beans, and the first of the blackberries!
I'm itching to make pesto, some sort of beet dish, some caramelized onions. Mmmm. If only the busyness would let us have time to cook!
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We're also starting to be swamped with adorable baby gear! less than 2 months to go still! It's starting to get a little tougher on me to wait, as all the summer babies are popping out... we can't wait to meet this kid already!
Anyhow, super cute gift #1 is from my cousin who stopped over from Japan on the way home. My favorite is the ducky washcloth! SO cute! And clearly this kid will have to have better taste in food (sushi) than us, with these adorable chopsticks! :)
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And my gift to myself, since our last camera decided to only read the card 1/3 of the time... mr. orangey!
Unfortunately, we thought that our old camera and this one used the same size card, so I have to wait until I can get to a store to pick up one. But hooray! A portable camera once again! (We love our d-slr, but just can't justify taking it some places, like the windy windy beach we were at last week...) And who knows - maybe we'll start posting annoying baby videos once this one's doing something interesting! ;)
I harvested 2 sorts of garlic last week - both elephant and regular white or german (or so - half of which had been somehow stolen(!) despite the electric fence), a bunch of smaller-than-they-oughta-be red onions (unfortunately - see laziness on my part in not planting soon enough!), lots of beets, some green peppers I couldn't wait for to turn red, a carrot that accidentally came up with the beets, the usual herbs - basil/parsley/rosemary, the first few days (of many I hope) of delicious sungold tomatoes, some random other not-as-rad tomatoes, some green beans, and the first of the blackberries!
I'm itching to make pesto, some sort of beet dish, some caramelized onions. Mmmm. If only the busyness would let us have time to cook!
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We're also starting to be swamped with adorable baby gear! less than 2 months to go still! It's starting to get a little tougher on me to wait, as all the summer babies are popping out... we can't wait to meet this kid already!
Anyhow, super cute gift #1 is from my cousin who stopped over from Japan on the way home. My favorite is the ducky washcloth! SO cute! And clearly this kid will have to have better taste in food (sushi) than us, with these adorable chopsticks! :)
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And my gift to myself, since our last camera decided to only read the card 1/3 of the time... mr. orangey!
Unfortunately, we thought that our old camera and this one used the same size card, so I have to wait until I can get to a store to pick up one. But hooray! A portable camera once again! (We love our d-slr, but just can't justify taking it some places, like the windy windy beach we were at last week...) And who knows - maybe we'll start posting annoying baby videos once this one's doing something interesting! ;)
