Hottest day of the year? Must be time for canning! heh.

Actually, I had at least enough sense to do this canning project yesterday evening, rather than in the blazing heat this afternoon. I’d thought about canning last year when we ended up with more produce from the garden than we could use . . . […]

After a long absence, Zippy* the friendly neighborhood squirrel came back for another visit. I suppose I should be annoyed that he’s eating up all of the bird seed, but really I don’t mind.
How weird is it that we first met in the backyard in June of last year? Is he on some kind of […]

This isn’t literally the first flower of spring around here. Sadly I missed my opportunity to get a photo of last week’s crocuses, which are now croaked. So here’s the second flower of spring: hyacinth. Ta da!

The horseshoe-shaped vegetable garden is in full swing!

It’s a little hard to tell what’s what, probably — but we’ve got a little bit of everything going on.
Some highlights:

cherry tomatoes - eggplant - pumpkins
We’ve also been getting some gargantuan zucchinis, cucumbers, and various other peppers. Those are pole beans climbing up the fence on […]

Of the squirrel kind!

I met this cute little guy in our backyard the other day, and he was as friendly as could be. If I made my best impression of squirrel chattering noises at him and held out my hand, he would actually approach to see what I had to offer. I stalked him […]

Finally — a weekend to spend outdoors! If anything, the weather has actually been TOO hot for my taste. (What ever happened to 60-70-degree spring weather? What’s up with going directly from freezing to 80+ degrees??)
First up, Saturday morning, Kate drove downtown to deliver our cookies and banana bread to our local MoveOn.org Bake Sale. […]

Off to class I go to figure out how to put all these sweater parts together! I finished the second sleeve last night, just in the nick of time. Nevermind that I was off on the placement of the stripe — doh! Oh, well. Kate assures me that asymmetry can be a desirable quality.
In addition […]