Salsa

I have been busy today chopping veggies for salsa. I have not yet made any this year, this will be my first (and possibly only) batch of salsa. I grew a lot less tomatoes this year. But did grow more of different kinds of veggies, such as celery, winter squashes, and corn. Every year is different for the veggies. Just have to do what you can with what comes up.
However, the first quality control check says it is going to be a very delicious batch.
And i like the way the capsacin feels on my hands.........

The harvest

Harvested my first carrot! My fav veggie of course. I will be canning some spaghetti sauce soon too. I have been cooking it down and thickening it up. I also entered some canning in the Cottage Grove Fair this year. 3 first place, 4 second place, 1 third place and 3 that didn't place. Pretty good i think.

just a funny picture of Zana Grey

lunch from the garden

The walk ways in the back yard garden

step carefully

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today's flower pictures.

Front yard.
















Liatris
















tiger lilies.
















one of the newest lilies to my garden. i love this color.

Looking up at the sunflowers.

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Kitties

Are you seeing spots before your eyes? Nope only one Spot and one Georgia. But they look a lot alike.

The kitties are seeking out some shade. Notice though, not my lawn. They were hanging out next to the garden on the neighbor's lawn.

Georgia.

Kitty updates

I have changed my mind about getting a kitten. I am just not going to get one right away. I still want a kitty to train to be held and carried around.
Zana Grey is doing much better. I have been treating her every week for fleas. She really loves being bathed too... NOT! but we are keeping the fleas off of her. Her appetite has returned. Since she has taken over sleeping in the blueberries all the time, the tweety birds have not been bothering them or eating them. Not that Zana can chase birds anymore, but the tweeties don't seem to want to take any chances.
Thomas, Spot, Rudy, and Georgia are all doing well. The wild bunch are getting more wild mostly since William left. I am starting all over again and again trying to tame them down.

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Pictures:Georgia, Rudy & Spot, Thomas, Zana

this weekend's harvest

I have harvested the potatoes this weekend. I did not get a lot of potatoes per hill but the ones I did get are of a pretty large size for yukon gold potatoes. I do like those yukon golds. I am going to be grating some with peppers and onions and put it in the freezer. That way I can take them out this week for breakfast-quick and easy breakfast for a mid-week morning. I also harvested what few walla-walla onions I had grown. There are so few, I will not have to worry about using them up in 2 weeks let alone 2 months. {{sigh}} but at least I got a few. I thought I would be able to harvest a few ears of corn but it looks like it will be next weekend before I can do that. Still, very early corn. Green beans are coming along fairly well. We will be eating lots of beans this week. Zucchini is growing and producing nicely. This year I only planted 2 plants of zucchini so we are able to keep up with eating them fairly well. I am getting some cucumbers every few days but not enough to do pickles or relish. The peppers and tomatoes are just coming on Also harvested the last of the spring snow peas and the lettuce. The earliest apples are ready for eating too.
The really good news is I haven't shopped the produce section of the grocery store in weeks and doubt I will need to do so for months.
The kitties like the fact that I have dug the potatoes and harvested the last of the snow peas. I took out the dead/dying snow pea plants too. So now the little ones have fresh, cool dirt to lie around in.