Posted in food, garden, gardening on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In yesterday’s tiffin, I put my silicone muffin cups to work. 3 oz of tuna, a dab of hummus, cocktail olives, Sechler’s dill gherkins, cherries, torn-up pita, and cinnamon cashews. It was all less coherent than I could have wished, but still beautiful and tasty.
In garden news, the blue morning glories are going gangbusters.
Posted in garden, gardening on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am picking the odd handful of yellow grape tomatoes, now. The rest of the tomatoes are not ripening yet, though all five plants have fruit set on.
My peppers are producing fruit too, finally. They have been blossoming since May, but only got going here at the end of July.
The purple basil I started from [...]
Posted in food on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Torn-up pita, hummus topped with olives and tomatoes, and bing cherries. Mmmmm.
Posted in garden, gardening on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OH MY. Oh my, oh my, oh my.
I have pictures of ripening tomatoes and set-on peppers, but this morning… this is all I can think about. The fourth wave of morning glories has arrived!
Posted in life on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The delphiniums are in good shape, both rusticated
And domesticated
But the big news, the only news really, has finally come.
Aww yeah. This is when it all pays off.
Posted in life on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It took Pudding approximately five minutes to warm up to the Brick Road quilt.
Meow?
And she’s still warmed up to it this morning.
Meow.
I have a new chandelier in my entry way,
And also a new one above my dining table.
They’re just too too. They’re also discontinued showroom samples, so I can’t refer you to them. But oh! [...]
Posted in quilt, quilting on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Meow! Meow meow meow! Pudding was very, very comfortable on the Faded Memories quilt.
I had In The Pink on my bed for a while in the winter, but she never warmed up to it. The minute I put Faded Memories on, though, love! Poor little kittens who have lost their mittens, perhaps? Or Kitty Cucumber? [...]
Posted in life on July 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My continuing quest to make packing my lunch an appealing option very quickly led me to the bento box craze, and yes, I have a Mr. Bento and several traditional boxes–which I will blog eventually. Two days ago, though, something much more exciting arrived on my doorstep: a tiffin box from India.
“Tiffin” can be a [...]
Posted in food on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The end of one spoon of sugar, and two heaping spoons of good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder
Make a slurry with a bit of boiling water
And stir in one cup of hot milk, for a very grown-up cup of bitter hot cocoa
Eat with homemade sourdough bread and butter. Mmmmm.
Posted in life on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in food, garden, gardening on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier in the summer I expressed my frustration with the buying and handling of fresh herbs for cooking. This frustration was misplaced, because as I wrote, I had forgotten that I had an herb garden growing just outside my back door. Ah! The herb garden! The cilantro never really took hold, but the mint and [...]
Posted in life on July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hooray, another quilt top!
This is based on the American Pie pattern from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Collection. It is made of an assortment of pale green fat quarters bought from Shabby Fabrics. The whites are leftover white-on-white scraps from last summer’s green and red quilt.
This is lap-quilt size, and I think it is going to [...]
Posted in life on July 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I was growing up, my mother had a set of red Christmas tree decorations that she preferred over the silver set. The red decorations had gone well in a house with red clay tiles and well in a house with a neutral beige color scheme, but when the late eighties and early nineties set [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week, the garden is all about the gladiolus. I have two kinds, miniature pink ones
which have budded
and bloomed
and large cream ones with pink tips
which bloomed and were beaten down by the rain
and were therefore cut and put on display in my bedroom
where they are breathtaking. Seriously, these glads are as tall as I am. [...]
Posted in life on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Big thunderstorms make for happy gardens–and also for a power outage that reminded me of the teacup candles that have been sitting in my craft room closet ever since their term on Etsy expired.
Well. The outage lasted three seconds. Just long enough to remind me.
Posted in life on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my “tribe” there are three of us with July birthdays. The beginning of July is also the approximate anniversary of the closing on my house and those long, sweltering, messy weekend trips to it to paint bedrooms. And then, of course, there is the Fourth of July. So I thought it was high time [...]
Posted in collections, quilt, quilting on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Phew. Let’s go indoors for a while. All of that sunshine is getting to be a bit much.
There are plenty of pretties to look at indoors, though. Last night, in one of what’s becoming a long run of sleepless nights, I found my ribbon box. Awwww. They’re all so cute! And just imagine all of [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have zucchini, and not cucumbers! Gee. What’s a little confusion among cucurbitaceae?
I think it’s less embarassing than last summer’s gaffe, in which I was absolutely sure that a pansy was a sweet pea–just because I had planted sweet peas in that pot. I eventually conceded the point.
Here’s a picture of Pudding to distract you.
Posted in life on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Behold:
In another exciting development, a commenter thinks that my “cucumbers” are zucchini. I do hope she’s right! Yes, I planted zucchini, and cucumbers too–only one hill germinated, and I had thought it was in the cucumber’s spot. I hope I was wrong!
Posted in garden, gardening on July 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
To be redundant… “and the garden bloomed and bloomed, and new miracles happened every day.”
Bug shot!
A better shot of the forget-me-nots
The gladiolus have had their leaves at full mast for months, but, bless their hearts, they’re doing something different now…
Tomorrow morning, I’ll have a PINK morning glory!
The cucumbers are OUT OF CONTROL!
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