2 posts tagged “gardening”
I'll post more tomorrow, but we're off tonight for our fifteenth wedding anniversary! We're eating at Caprial's.
I scoured the internet to find a recipe for you! Here is the cake we had at Caprial and John's kitchen. It's to die for!
The house will soon be quiet. The munchkins and dh are off camping, and I'm going to art camp right here. Three
days of just creating. I warned them not to expect a clean house when they came home. (I could easily spend all weekend cleaning, scrubbing, organizing.) But sometimes you have to put your foot down, and just work on your passion. My girlfriend Patty wrote about doing this same thing just a few weekends ago for her book. (I may call her if I need to escape tomorrow night.)
The weather is heating up around here and I'm having to water the flowers. I had a beautiful grass in the front planter, but it didn't survive the winter. (Hmm, maybe it needed to be brought indoors.) However, the succulents
have taken over and started throwing vines over the edge like I hoped they would.
Frankly, most of my interest in plants comes from my desire to cook or eat without cooking. My cousin understands this and sent me a terribly tempting site called Eat-It. I'd like one of everything that grows in zone 8, please.
We visited some friends for the fourth. They like to put on a big show, and I played with the camera to catch a few shots for you. All of the munchkins are finally old enough to light the fuses with punks. They were thrilled, we were watchful. A friend sent me a site that highlights artists every day called artist a day. I've been enjoying it lately and thought you might as well.
The house across the street has been abandoned and the cherry trees that line the street seem lonely. Littlest Munchkin and I picked them this week. (Munchkin held the bowl while I bent the saplings down to pluck the fruit.) We found that there are two kinds of pie cherries growing there. We shared the pie with a neighbor, and felt a little better about lonely house.
We needed to do some PR work in Seattle, so I hand delivered the gift to Sara last weekend. (She won the birthday blogging surprise a few posts back.) Can you tell that she loved it? She was so sweet, and thrilled about all the little details. It makes me want to keep on creating...
I was driving in the rain, so the munchkins took the rainy Seattle photo for
me. While killing time in the library there, I found an adorable fish purse that was supposedly at www.MoMa.org, but it was not there any more, nor did it list the artist. I think it's 'da bomb.' If any of you happen to know where to lay your hands on one, I want it.
The garden experiment is doing great. That is, the rabbits and deer are staying out. However, I'm afraid that's because they aren't even being tempted because everything is staying rather um, short.
We have heavy clay and rocky soil, so we brought in 3-way to help it. (3 way is 50% topsoil, 25% compost, and 25% sand.) I'm thinking now that all we really needed was 100% manure, and lots of it. The strawberries love it the most and have produced some berries and are sending suckers out all over the place. Although, the best strawberries are still the ones growing in a Lego container on the patio. Hmm.
Dh is getting ready once again to do humanitarian aid work building houses in Mexico. In preparation, a crew came over to build boxes to hold their tools. They wanted to color code the boxes, so the munchkins and the neighbor kids painted them and then cleaned off the rollers on the lawn. I'm enjoying the abstract quality of their work this week.
We also had to go visit a friend in the hospital who is recovering from cancer. He's doing well and we all enjoyed our visit. As we left town, we stopped off for a quick bite at our absolutely favorite pizza shop. Well, okay, we have two favorites, but both have perfect crusts.
