Life has been hectic and I have let things in my cyber nest ferment... I mean, age, like a good wine ;0)
I have been feeling guilty about it, however, and came up with a tentative plan. I'm not going to explain it here, because that is boring. Instead, I'll just start!

OK, so this summer has been quite a whirlwind. Pregnancy leaves my brain foggy a lot of the time anyway, and adding to that all of the activities that the calendar can accommodate makes it tough to keep up at times! We are hanging in there nonetheless.

We are gardening and doing quite well this year.

Some items we are trying as an experiment, others are tried and true and haven't ever failed us!

We have one greenhouse (a portable, pop-up tent-like house) that is full (and I mean FULL) of tomatoes. 15-20 plants, I can't remember how many exactly. That is David's pet project. He's doing really well with them and the rewards are starting to come in. We have had maters at dinner three nights in a row now! Yummm!

The other greenhouse has broccoli, scallopini squash, zucchini, cucumber, habaneros & cayennes. As well as a bean plant. We are trying bean plants inside the house and on the deck to see which will produce, if either. We have never really gotten any edible sized beans up here, but that doesn't stop me from trying... mostly in vain.

The tried and true are the greens. They never fail us. I have to have a salad a day (sometimes 2) just to keep up and I don't think I'm keeping up because the lettuce is growing so fast! We are getting big heads and spicy mustard greens. So many varieties and all are delicious. Very tender. I love my salad time! All this thinking about those salads is making me want to go make one right now!! (I think I will in just a minute!)

Some of our other "crops" are potatoes, onions, carrots and a variety of herbs.

This year I planted very little within reach of deer/rabbits, etc. I did however try poppies! They are a big success! And so lovely! They mostly turned out white, but we do have a few surprise purples... We are collecting the seeds and definitely expanding our poppy collection next year!

Well, that salad is calling, as is the laundry, so I best get on my way...

I have loads of photos to upload so keep an eye out for those in my flickr... I'll post a few here as well.

Including the gorgeous purple poppy & the twin fawn that run around here (so adorable!!)

I'm going to update the baby page and then call it a day for blogging.

xo