Thanks to my friend, Pat Borders, I have cucumbers and therefore I am making pickles. I made 8 pints of Bread and Butter Pickles over the weekend and 7 pints of dill pickles last night. 7 more pints are in the canner as I write this. These 7 will be mild since I ran out of dill seed and had to use dill weed instead. Actually, I'm not sure how they will turn out. I'm using a different recipe than the one I used before (though similar) and my pickle making skills aren't the best but hopefully they will at least be crisp.
I've started harvesting beans and the garlic is almost ready as are the onions. I also expect to start harvesting corn any day now. I'm going to try some tonight for supper. I've had a few red tomatoes but they were all damages but there are some pink ones out there now, so real soon now.
I've slowly been working on my quilt for the quilt along. I'm cutting the strips into smaller strips and am almost done. I expect to be sewing next week. More details on my Kudzu Kwilts blog along with my problems getting fabric for my GT quilt.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Summer is here ...
And baby is it hot outside.
I've been pretty busy these last few weeks, though I guess it has been months since I last posted.
Here's what I've been up to:
Finished the baby blanket I was crocheting. It look very similar to the one I made year before last for Hannah's baby. I think I did a better job this time as it is mostly square.
Started a quilt-a-long (and a new blog, Kudzu Kwilts). We are making a twin size bed quilt. It will go on the trundle bed in my office.
Harvesting the garden has begun. We got lots of lettuce this spring along with broccoli and cabbage. I have frozen most of the broccoli and the cabbage is in the fridge. Fortunately cabbage keeps a long time. Started with squash and zucchini in the last week or so. We're having better luck, so far, with the squash and zucchini. The vine borers haven't been as bad. I'm trying to be better about spraying and that seems to be helping. I have more than I can handle at the moment. I've put up 5 jars of squash and 5 jars of zucchini the last 2 days and I have more to do today. I've made lots of zucchini bread too. Enough to start giving away.
Lawrence is out of town until Thursday with his sister and BIL. They will be staying here Thursday night. I'm sure I can get them to take some squash and zucchini when they leave to go home Friday.
I've been pretty busy these last few weeks, though I guess it has been months since I last posted.
Here's what I've been up to:
Finished the baby blanket I was crocheting. It look very similar to the one I made year before last for Hannah's baby. I think I did a better job this time as it is mostly square.
Started a quilt-a-long (and a new blog, Kudzu Kwilts). We are making a twin size bed quilt. It will go on the trundle bed in my office.
Harvesting the garden has begun. We got lots of lettuce this spring along with broccoli and cabbage. I have frozen most of the broccoli and the cabbage is in the fridge. Fortunately cabbage keeps a long time. Started with squash and zucchini in the last week or so. We're having better luck, so far, with the squash and zucchini. The vine borers haven't been as bad. I'm trying to be better about spraying and that seems to be helping. I have more than I can handle at the moment. I've put up 5 jars of squash and 5 jars of zucchini the last 2 days and I have more to do today. I've made lots of zucchini bread too. Enough to start giving away.
Lawrence is out of town until Thursday with his sister and BIL. They will be staying here Thursday night. I'm sure I can get them to take some squash and zucchini when they leave to go home Friday.
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