Month: June 2023

Everthing smells like onions

Onion harvest day. Planted sets from Renee’s Garden in March and they produced some very large onions. Pickled yesterday. Included fresh Coriander seeds – soft, lemony. Had to … Read more

Buggy June

The bugbag full above capacity. Eric brave. Changed out the bag o beetles. Good news, the wasp decoy working! Even after watering. No wasps. Sweeeeeeet.

Dog Days Begin: Cucumbers, Zucchini, Dairying

Cooking day. Behind in dairymaiding. Not to self: this is how to use a gallon of milk….big batch of bechamel, paired with zucchini for 3 gratin bound for … Read more

Eric’s Favorite Cake and Radish Pods

Our Sunday. Worship. Rest. A swim. Sugar free lemon cake with lemon lavender icing. Eric’s favorite. He doesn’t know it’s super easy. Let the radishes go to seed. … Read more

Late June on the Terrace

Saving snow peas for the seeds – a fall planting? The Kaffir lime tree is setting a new flush of tiny baby leaves for later use in Thai … Read more

Chamomile

Three plants, started from seed in the dark of winter.

Blackberry Day

Wild blackberries from a dear woman who handpicks them every year from her patch. Made into jam, plain canned berries for winter, some destined for freezer camp, and … Read more

Critters

Some of our beloved critters. Henry at the pool. Auggie and dear departed Mork at the fishing dock. Mork was terrified of everything until sweet Auggie joined the … Read more

Kauai

We once lived on the tiny island of Kauai. We loved it there. A small, rural town in the middle of paradise. Twenty years ago we were married … Read more

Tater Alley

It’s gonna be a good day, ‘tater. Very late season potato planting in buckets. Hoping for a late fall harvest after last year’s fail. Different ones – Russet, … Read more