Howdy blogworld.
I’m so pleased to be greeting you from way down deep in the heart of Texas.
The last time I was in Houston, my parents and grandparents had just planted a garden. I wasn’t all that impressed, really, as it just looked like a bunch of dirt and seemed like a kinda boring hobby to me. Over the past few months, Mom has been sending me photos from her cell phone of some of the new growth but the pictures haven’t been of stellar quality so I could not believe it when I saw the garden with my own eyes! It still has a way to go but I cannot believe it is already bearing some fruit!
I’m so excited for my parents and grandparents to have this new little garden! My grandparents, who are in their mid to late seventies, tend to the garden every single day. Each time the four of them grow something new they quarter the vegetable and eat it together, even if it’s a tiny little Roma tomato. I’m also pretty floored. I do not have a green thumb. A few years ago Colin gave me his cactus plant to take care of for a few months and I killed it in record time. I’ve even been known to starve a variety of bamboo, which, according to Colin, is pretty impressive. And please do not get me started on the rosemary I tried to plant during my cooking craze. The death of the rosemary plant was the final straw, not to mention a prophetic foreshadowing signifying the doom of my overall Betty Crocker agenda.
Do you have a garden? If so, what kind of fun stuff do you grow? If you’re like me and you don’t have a green thumb, what is your latest hobby? My latest hobby is photography. I can’t get enough. I’m driving my entire family bonkers.
I love flowering shrubs–especially roses. Could you guess?
I do have a small garden but I tend to neglect it here and there and then get in a frenzy trying to nurture it back to health. I did get some massive radishes while were on our 3 week road trip though! I’m also growing yellow and red tomatos, carrots, and habanero & jalapeno peppers for the hubby.
I love photography too. I’m too lazy to learn all the special settings so I try to do really good shots in automatic. HA HA One of these days….
(YAY – I got my own profile pic back!) Bless her heart – somehow I got this sweet lady who blogs for me – I got her picture hooked on my name and address. HA HA But I’m back!
I have always wanted a garden, but I don’t have the heart or skills that it would take for any type of success 🙂 I can still dream…
Your pictures are beautiful Melissa… I think you may have another career if you want one 🙂
Thanks for sharing… I love the picture of your mom…she looks so peaceful.
Loved your blog about submitting to your husband. It is sometimes hard to find that balance with being free in Christ and knowing how the Lord created you to be and how He wants you to use that freedom to glorify Him.
Love, love, LOVE photography but can’t grow anything to save my soul!!! Oh how I wish I could. I do appreciate a good home-grown vegetable.
Keep up the photography. They will get use to it! 🙂
(and be sure to post some here)
Hi Melissa: don’t give up on the whole cooking thing just don’t try to be Betty Crocker.
The green thumb missed me entirely and I married a farmer, he doesn’t let me in the fields til he wants the plants to die for harvest then I get to walk in and suck the life from them and voi-la no top kill needed, just me.
Melissa, I feel your pain! I can grow regular plants like trees and bushes and some flowers, but veggies are a whole different breed! I blame it on the bugs, and I intend to ask God about those when I get to see Him. I can’t see the purpose of the ones that sting me or eat my fiber. I LOVE tomatoes, and I’ve tried year after year to grow them, but I am continually foiled by worms and white flies! I gave up this year, mostly due to the comments my man makes on how much it must cost us to grow even ONE tomato because of the money I’ve spent trying!!
My husband and I have had a garden for several years. He’s Oliver; I’m the equivalent of Ms. Gabor on Green Acres! Our children actually help and earn money in the summer time buy selling the fruits of our labor. I have some wonderful pictures….my favorites are bees in the sunflowers, almost just like the ones Melissa posted. God sure shows his glory when you plant sumpin, huh?
We do have a garden! We grow the usual stuff – tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, watermelons, and cantaloupe. My husband always plants okra which I despise, so I deliberately try to kill those plants before I am overrun with the stuff. We tried to grow potatoes, but those nasty potato bugs ate the plants. Does anyone know how to keep those things away from the plants???
Last fall we planted blueberry bushes, raspberry canes strawberries, and some peach trees, which gave us a little fruit this year, but it will be a year or two before we get a “real” harvest.
As for new hobbies, for years now I have wanted to learn how to do stained glass, but haven’t attempted this yet. When I have tons of time…. hahahahaha!
Love and hugs,
Adrienne
oh my you grow everything! How wonderful!
There is a powder you can put on the plants to kill potatoe beetles but it is an insecticide so you may not want to use it. Don’t know of an organic way to kill them, less you want to pick them off!!! LOL
I love flowers. My Daddy and Mammaw (Grandmother) love flowers too! They’re better at it than I am though. Living in Guatemala, I get to see the flowers year round, but during the dry season, it’s a little tough to get them looking pretty. It gets over 100 every day during that time, so I have to get out early in the morning to get the grass and flowers watered. There is a certain type of flower in my yard that looks just like corn stalks. Last year, I planted them and I watered them and watered them, and I never saw the flowers that people had told me about. I would tell my husband that I hated getting up and watering those stupid corn stalks! (But I couldn’t bear to pull them up, so I just kept watering.) We got here in January of last year, and at the end of May, the rain really started! And I got to see my first, beautiful, wonderful smelling, white flower from the corn stalk. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I decided then that God was the only one that could make this particular flower bloom and it has always reminded of His faithfulness. If I knew how to add a picture on here, I would show you because they are in bloom. They are so pretty…worth the wait. 🙂
I tried to grow some herbs in little pots on my back porch this year, and I killed them all too! Even the mint, which apparently is pratically a weed and hard to kill. Who knew? Believe it or not, my new hobby is my new Etsy shop! After a couple of years of sewing I’ve finally bucked up the courage to put myself out there and maybe possibly sell something. Eek! Loving your photography! I tried that over the weekend and I think I need to stick to my sewing machine and onesies!
We have our first Texas garden (we’re in Katy). It was so beautiful. Growing so well. But, for some reason, unknown to us, exept for the tomatoes and the peppers, all the plants only produce blooms. They never actually put any veggies out! My squash and zucchini grew huge plants and flowers then DIED 🙁 The green beans are still growing and flowering and NOT green bean-ing. I guess I have half a green thumb??
I’m trying not to have garden envy 😉
Love the photographs, Melissa. Especially, the sunflowers. I think you have found a hobby that shows off your talents.
Hi Melissa,
My husband and I have a garden. My grand parents always had a big one and it never appealed to me either until about my late 30’s. We plant corn, tomatoes ( I love to can salsa), peas, beans, lettuce, radish, aspargus, rasberries and strawberries. My favorites are the berries. Matter of fact the other night I was picking some rasberries and saw some stirring in the straberries. I gently pulled back the leaves and saw a baby bunny, it was so cute!!! My husband asked if I chased it away, but I didn’t, it was just so cute. My female Weimaraner (pointer dog, like the ones dressed up on Seasame Street) has been on patrol ever since!!
I also like to run, cook and read. I’ve been running for about 3 years now, I train in the summer for a 10 mile road race in August. We (my running group) just ran 9 miles last night.
Did you see the movie Julia and Julia? Loved it! I haven’t had much French food, but now I want to purchase her cook book and try some new recipes.
The lastest book I’m reading, Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (I’m 3/4’s the way through it).
Good luck with your photography!
Off topic, I know, (and I understand if you choose not to approve this for viewing), but I cannot see a sunflower without thinking of Michael and the story Beth shared in one of her Bible studies. I know she has chosen to keep this part of your lives private, but I just want you to know that I remember and pray for him and your relationship with him.
I know! Me either, Shelli! It was the very first thought in my mind when I saw the sunflower. I miss him! I know they do!
I too thought of Michael. Often wonder about him and pray for him.
Hi Melissa!
Wow, y’all bear much fruit in so many ways. Hope it all tastes as great as it looks!
I don’t have a fun hobby, unless you can call internal digging, cleansing, and repatterning a hobby. Even though my calendar is mostly blank, this season has been filled with caring for my elderly dog and cleaning/organizing every part of my house. It’s in good shape, and God has made great strides in renewing my mind, so it feels like I’m “Getting my house in order” both internally and externally.
But my next “hobby” will be learning Greek and starting to work on teaching/writing ideas.
I’ve never had much of a green thumb either, but last year and this year I have been trying my hand at gardening. Last year…not so great. This year, I’m seeing some marked improvement! But, we’ve had so much rain early on, that the most abundant thing I’ve had grow is weeds!! I did have a hypothetical talk with Adam & Eve one evening while on my hands and knees yanking them out! = ) It’s been fun though!
Oh girl! I don’t have a green thumb either! You would think I would since I’m a “country” girl but oh no!! So my newest hobby is teaching myself to crochet! We’ll see how that goes!
Hi Melissa,
I do “not” have a green thumb – Lord knows I tried to grow a garden but it just wasn’t my thing.
My hobbies right now are taking bike rides in the Adirondack Mountains (which are just 45 mins of my house) and taking the most beautiful pictures you could ever imagine of wilderness. I sent some to a co-worker and she said she looked at them at least 20 times during the day and they made her heart so happy.
We also have Chittenango Falls near our home in the other direction and when I placed my photo of the Falls on photobucket it had over 1,000 visitors in two days. That tells me people can’t get enough of the natural beauty God can only provide.
Have a wonderful day everyone,
Janice
Just curious, Siestas? Am I the only one who anticipated seeing pictures of Bob & Larry on this post? LOL! That squash & zucchini looks yummy! Makes me want to hit a farmer’s market this weekend & cook! Nothing like some summer veggies from the garden.
LOL…I was thinking the same thing. Even started humming…If you like to talk to tomatoes…
I love Veggie Tales!
I thought exactly the same thing LOL!
I’m fairly certain…no, I’m positive…I could kill an artificial plant. If plant-killing were an Olympic sport, I’d set a record for gold medals. It’s SAD how bad I am at it.
My hobby is painting. And I have a newly found love of photography, as well. Your pics were gorgeous! Nice bokeh, by the way. I also have an addiction to office supplies. I could spend an entire day in Office Depot and never once wonder where the time went.
My husband used to tease me when I brought a live green plant home–saying I was giving it a ‘death sentence’!! I have learned a little, but still have trouble with anything other than an Ivy!! LOL
I too could kill a fake plant, you are not alone sister 🙂
I definitely identify with your photography hobby….since I’m a photographer!! 🙂 Babies and families are my favorite subjects, especially my own little ones! But you can’t go wrong with a beach or a cool city or some pretty flowers to photography either. I love capturing all the little details! I also love learning to sew and quilt (my mom is a genius with a sewing machine!!!) and I’m trying to stay caught up on scrapbooking. This was such a fun entry to read today, thanks for sharing…..and your pictures look GREAT by the way!!!
Oh man. I was hoping we’d get to tell our favorite Veggie Tale moment. But I guess I already did with the SSBS comments.
I’m like you, Melissa. I killed an aloe vera plant in college and it’s been all down hill since then. And that was a few decades ago. My darling counterpart, on the other hand, had decided that agrigulture is his hobby. We have fourteen fruit trees in our yard. And we have a relatively small yard. Plums, pears, apples (several varieties), peaches, cherries. Oh, and don’t forget the strawberry patch, but I whined on here about that before. In all fairness I did just have some strawberry freezer jam with my lunch. I put up 14 batches in May. Boy, did that sound southern. Since I’m a transplant, I’m often shootin’ for that. Thank the Lord we were out of town last week when the plums came in gangbusters. I was afraid I’d have to learn to can. Waay too much time in the kitchen. And I have things to glue. Speaking of which…
My hobby? Just pass me some scissors and glue. Yesterday I made a card out of a Scrabble board and spelled my message out of… you guessed it: Scrabble letters. And just to keep it challenging, you have to say things in the form of a crossword puzzle.
BTW, nice job on the pictures, Melissa. I’m no authority but, I’d say your photographic skills are progressing nicely. Thanks for the visit. We’ve missed you on here.
Hi Melissa, glad to see that you made it home safely. We have tried our hand a gardening but it was quite a failure. This year we decided to just grow one plant of squash, tomatoes and watermelon. The squash and watermelon were grown from seed that our children planted at school. The squash is doing great. I did however have a incident with the weedeater and my tomatoe plant.
If you use a weedeater to help in the garden…you might be a redneck gardener!!
Nice. Agrigulture? Should make you wonder about my Scrabble skills.
I recently got a new camera, Nikon D3000, and am definitely into a photographing stage. I also planted a small garden this year and those 2 hobbies go well together! I have tomatoes, zucchini, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, corn, popcorn and pumpkins and sunflowers. I had cucumbers but the rabbits made quick work of those! And I think the deer are eating the tops off of my tomatoes but they’re still producing! There’s nothing sweeter than a cherry tomato picked off the plant and popped into your mouth! I haven’t had many in my salad yet because they don’t make it as far as the house before I’ve eaten them all!
Well.. the only seed that I’ve been successful with sowing and God growing is the Seed of God’s Word! I’m like you, Melissa, I’m gifted in killing anything else! I hate that about me. But plants don’t want to come to my house!
Let me share this. I think you’ll love it. And it’ll give you a perfect picture of just what I mean….
On the day before my 40th birthday my husband came to get into bed. I had every version of Bible and kind of dictionary or lexicon or commentary you could find on it. I had to bring the bulldozer in to scoop it all off. As I was scooping I told him, “I wish I wasn’t so dumb. I wish that I was smarter than I am.” His sweet response was, “You are smart.” “No,” I said, “I’m not. But I’m okay with that. I’m working on it.”
I told him, “I feel like if you looked at me all that you would see would be just a dirt field. Dirt. Dirt. Dirt everywhere you looked. Nothing but dirt. But I’m planting the Seed daily and others are watering… and then it’ll be the Spirit alone that will bring the increase!” I not only told him, but I had it written all over my journal.
Next morning….. (birthday morning) was a Sunday morning. I checked my mail before church. I got a card from some random card company (mind you, no personal friend!, no one who knew me)…. after seeing it I was floored! Eyes widened huge I turned to my husband and said, “Oh my goodness, I just got a birthday card from God!!!” After looking at it himself he was just as floored as I was and then said the same thing that I did, “Oh my goodness, you did! You just got a birthday card from God!”
It was a picture of a plain field…. a farmer walked across the screen digging, digging, digging…. then walked back across the screen the other way digging some more. Then, he came back throwing the seed, throwing the seed, throwing the seed…….. both back and forth. Next time, he came with his water, watering the seed that he’d sown…………. And then, it sprouted growth, a garden grew and then words popped up to tell me Happy Birthday.
HUGE! It blew my mind! I’ll never forget it! And the thing of it is, He’s been so faithful! I still have so much to learn, but I’m smarter now in Him than just the dirt field that I used to be!
Follow this link and you’ll see the card that this card company ‘just happened’ to send: http://www.care2.com/send/card/4822
P.S. Your mom’s garden is beautiful!!! I am incredibly impressed! It makes me want to try my black thumb and just see if our God will have mercy and honor it!
Thank you for sharing!
Sharon,
read your story, saw the card…loved it! God is THE BEST communicator EVER!! Special moments, custom made for each of us.
Way to work ‘your’ garden : )
rene
Hey Melissa
I am just like you. I have a black thumb when it comes to plants. My husband says that I could kill artificial flowers.
My hobby right now is researching my family tree. I have gotten on to the ancestry.com site which makes it very easy to find information about long lost relatives. You can get old photographs too.
I know you and your family are having a great time being together. So glad you got to come home if only for a little while.
Love ya!
Love all of your pics. Yes, I think you have a new found hobby! Also, loved your comments on your dad’s birthday. Your whole family brings such inspiration to us.
I was almost jumping up and down when I read this post! You know how little kids jump up and down and kinda clap their hands? That’s how I feel right now! 🙂
We have a garden every year and I just love it! We plant corn, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, ocra, watermelons, herbs, potatoes, etc… I really enjoy using our seeds from year to year and transplanting them into the garden once they’re big enough or hardened off.
Our corn was doing great this year, and then we had a horrific dry spell. So, I valiantly tried to water them. Nope, nadda, nothing. It dried up and it’s pretty sad looking now. But, my ocra thought it was in veggie heaven because it’s taken off and we can’t eat it all…so we’re, literally, giving it away! (since ocra is only edible to us fried, we couldn’t justify frying every day to keep up with it!)
I’m giddy about my potatoes this year, too. I’m a pretty bad potato farmer. We let the eyes grow, they seed and we get maybe 20 little red potatoes. Not this year! I don’t know if it’s the big dry spell we’ve had, or if they just felt sorry for me?! But, we’re gonna have at least 200 potatoes this year. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM TOOK!? I don’t know what we did different, but I’m hoping I can figure it out before next year.
I’m so glad your mom and dad are enjoying harvesting with your grandparents. My father passed on his love of watching things grow to me and I’ve been passing it on to my kids. I’m actually not very domestic, but something about gardening just flips my switch. It…soothes me. There’s something very satisfying about watching it all grow. I check it every single day from spring to fall!
My tiller is one of my most prized possessions! (I don’t actually use it, but I love to watch my husband and oldest son making freshly tilled earth each year, I just love how it smells!) My composte pile has grown on me, too. Daddy never had one of those, so we’ve just been learning as we go on that (and I do NOT like how it smells)!
…whispers to Melissa… I’ve killed every houseplant I’ve ever had, too (even well established ivy!!). I always forget they need watering because the rain outside actually doesn’t affect them inside. My sweet husband tells me I’m just distracted with more important things like our children and him…and I like his reasoning better! 🙂
I like to cook using herbs. I love using cilantro but I’m terrible at growing it! My parents are great at growing flowers and vegetables. When I was younger we had raspberries which I loved but they grow like crazy! I’d like to be better at photography. I just spent 3 months in Costa Rica and hardly have any pictures.
When we lived in Wisconsin we could practically throw seeds out our back door and fruits and veggies grew like wildfire. Now we live on a Carolina mountainside and it takes a lot more work to get things growing.
I would have thrown in the hat a long time ago in lieu of the ease of shopping at our small town farmers market but since my husband and boys remain fascinated with growing things I get to reap the oh so tasty benefits. Nothing like going out your backdoor and picking a vine ripe tomato for your sandwich, salad or freshly made tomato soup.
Currently growing on our mountainside are strawberries, rasperries, blueberries, grapes, watermelon, carrots, potatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers, peas, pumpkins and a few other things I haven’t identified yet. Spinach and lettuce grew earlier and we’ll plant more in the fall. Radishes are the absolute easiest fail proof thing in the world to grow so my kids grew a ton of them. (I’m sure you couldn’t go wrong growing those – 🙂 ) Problem was – nobody wanted to eat them–myself included.
Don’t know how your cooking was Melissa but your photograpy is beautiful! I say you keep pursuing that.:)
Enjoy Texas.
CC
Melissa, I have such a brown thumb I can’t believe all the grass in my yard hasn’t died! I have never met a plant I can’t kill in 10 days or less.
My favorite hobby is knitting. I knit even in the summer – I just move on to lacy scarves with thinner yarn so I don’t have all that wool on my lap.
My family runs a commercial veggie farm…so we have a “small” vegetable patch. To date, we have 6,000 tomato plants, 10,000 pepper plants and a few melon plants (here and there).
My husband spends a LOT of time there–but it’s a family venture. I haven’t been able to help as much this year (as we are building a house), but generally we all share the picking and packing responsibilities. I love having fresh vegetables available, though!
that looks just like my garden in arkansas!!! except we also have corn and OKRA (my fav)
we can give away enough zuchinni but our tomatoes still look green just like your moms.
love your pictures and hope you don’t get bored with photography. pictures are a “must” on a blog!!
Hi Melissa,
WOW! Nothing like homegrown veggies!
My hobby is COOKING! I have made a pact with the sisters in the convent that are gardeners. If they grow it and bring it to the kitchen – I’ll cook it!
So far its been working fine!
Glad you get to spend some time with your family
Peace – Sister Lynn
“This is to My Father’s glory – that you bear much fruit!”
John 15:8
We have a small garden. Third year in a row…just 2-4 plants (each) of: tomatoes, yellow squash, jalapenos, watermelon, cantaloupe and bell peppers.
I did very recently learn how to can. It is SOOO much easier than I thought. So I helped my mom can tomatoes in quart jars that weekend. Then, I came home with some excess tomatoes from my parents’ garden (which is huge) and canned my own pints of salsa, following my sister’s recipe. I can share if anyone wants the recipe, though I don’t have it on me right now.
And boy, it is GOOD.
Oh my gosh, I’m laughing so hard about the rosemary plant that ended your cooking craze.
Well blogging can make my family a little nuts, mostly the pictures I take to put with the blog. They’re used to it now and they like reading my blog so all is good.
I’m into cooking…I’ve tried lots of new recipes recently and am trying to adapt to cooking for two as opposed to four now. My girls are grown and only home to visit. Sniff sniff.
Oh, and I guess I should mention books. Yeah, small addiction there.
Don’t feel bad about your non-green thumb…when I bring a new plant into the house my hubs looks at it and says, “Welcome to prison” He claims I deprive them of food and water until they are at death’s door and then I cave. I’m doing better in this house. I think the light is more plant friendly here : )
I’m with you, Melissa…I can’t grow a blasted thing!:( I look at a plant or flower, and it dies! But I do appreciate gardens and fresh fruit and veggies:) Thank you, Lord, for giving the gift of gardening to some, and allowing the rest of us to share and partake:)
Melissa, I am growing tomatoes and I have a huge Rosemary plant that I inherited when we moved into the house. That is as far as that goes but I am also into photography and have been for a few years now. I still have a lot to learn but I am enjoying it so much. What camera do you use?
Also, their garden is impressive! 🙂
I’m with you, Melissa, I can’t grow anything at all. My husband accuses me killing the plants at Home Depot when I walk by them. Ha!
I like taking pictures, too, but I just don’t have the time I used to have. Between killing plants, taking care of kids, and getting ready to go back to teaching in a few weeks, I’m pretty busy!
We have a tiny patio at our townhouse, so not much room. My husband is the gardener, but he only grows things for butterflies. So the herbs are for the caterpillars, not me. But the flowers he’s got are beautiful – the passion vines, especially. He did buy me a miniature lime tree for my birthday, but no limes this year (and we discovered another caterpillar likes the lime tree leaves). It sure is fun to watch the caterpillars grow and then become butterflies. Amazing!
My current hobby is sleeping. 🙂
Great pics! I definitely do not have a green thumb. My mom didn’t either, but then she developed a green thumb later in life so, I’m waiting for my day to come. I love hearing about other’s gardens but don’t have the commitment, confidence or room for my own. I am quite proud of the two vinca’s that are actually surviving on my front porch right now!
I love this blog and this “family”. This is my first time commenting! 🙂
My husband is a horticulturalist and people always think we must have a splendiferous garden. But I keep having babies in the spring which is prime gardening time, so all we’ve got is a bench in the kitchen of what I like to call “plant hospice.” My man will bring something exotic or exciting home from work and put it on the bench and tell me all about it, and we’ll both have good intentions…but instead we have plants in various states of shriveled.
Melissa, I totally identify with you. We had somehow managed to grow a bumper crop of corn one year. I went out one morning because I thought this was the day to pick it and apparently some furry friends decided it was just right to because every ear was stripped back and every kernel gone! That was our last garden attempt! I did plant some strawberries plants this year and so far they are still alive. I love photography too! Thank you for sharing your life with us. I very much enjoyed the pictures of you and your dad the other day.
You’re so funny. We’re growing squash, rosemary, and tomatoes. Now not your ordinary tomatoes, but Purple Cherokee tomatoes. If you’ve never had one you have to try it, if you like tomatoes. They are really sweet and the best tomatoes I’ve ever tasted.
And for the record, I don’t have a green thumb either, my husband does all the planting here at our house.
Thank you so much for this post and the beautiful pictures! I love all of the home grown fruits and vegetables, but don’t have a garden this year. I am terrible with plants and taking pictures, too. . .I blame the bad photography on my bad eye, but I do have some good pictures that I have taken myself.
I guess blogging has become my hobby, and it all started here! Thank you all for all you do!!!! Happy Summer!
This is our first year as a garden. It is very small- about 10 x 15. My Mom called it cute, if that tells you anything. I have been telling everyone my husband and I are “playing farmer”. It is doing well, and we are loving picking beans, cucumbers and waiting on our tomatoes to ripen to make salsa.
This past weekend, we went blackberry picking. And I made jelly! I was so proud that I actually succeed in this, it was my first time canning anything. Of course, to get the blackberries, we also got chigger bites, poison ivy, eaten alive by briars and a couple falls from the very steep hills. Yep, we are ‘green’ at farming.
When we were spending a long, hot afternoon picking our blackberries, I thought of Ruth and how she gleaned in the fields. And like I had much more work to do to get my jelly, Ruth had much more to do to get her end product. A whole new appreciation I have gained for those who grow and harvest.
Beautiful pictures! and what a beautiful garden!
My favorite hobby is making and baking bread.
michelle in VT
michellemabelle,
we would be a good match…I love to EAT bread with my (real) butter!! yummmmm : )
I’ll bet your home smells heavenly, too!
Rene,
Your real butter sounds delicious! 🙂
I so agree that one of life’s little pleasures is the smell of baking bread and the sound of the crust cracking after it comes out of the oven!
Have a blessed day!
michelle
michellemabell,
you’re so cute! so as not to get credit where credit isn’t due…I don’t make the butter, I just don’t eat margarine…hahaha, but it DID sound that way when I read your reply!!
Blessings to you as well!
rene : )
I used to always plant tomatoes and herbs on my back deck in containers until I got a basset hound. Who knew that bassets loved tomatoes and herbs? Well, mine did and ate them all up (even the vines!).
So this year, I planted tomatoes in my flower beds out front away from the dog and lots of herbs mixed in with flowers in containers on the front porch. My 7-year old, Tricia, is helping me keep them alive by watering them during this semi-drought in the mid-Atlantic states.
Next year we are doing a larger, sheet mulch garden with a mix of veggies, herbs, and flowers, all to be grown organically and used for food, medicinal treatments, solitude and beauty. I can’t wait. The mulching starts soon!
Tammy