Although the weather cooled down, my downstairs was pretty humid and warm. It was cooler to be on the porch, so after a good bathroom cleaning, freezing more strawberries, and baking a pie, I high-tailed it to the porch to crochet. Even though I should have been weeding, but....
...rain arrived during the night and well, it's we again. The battle of planting continued. Not to mention the weeding.
New pie for me. Believe or not. We missed out on getting a stockage of strawberries the last two years. Not this year. I made my first baked fresh strawberry pie. Hubby was in heaven on this one too. It was sadly the last two pie crust crumbles I had in the freezer. I guess I better dig out my recipe and get that on the to-do list now.
More books were purged. Look! I had two of these, ha ha! And just for toots and giggles, I counted how many I'm getting rid of - 96 so far. I am finding more recipes however, so the "try it" pile has grown.
Hubby tilled in the rain yesterday. It literally stayed dry all day, and poof! Rain arrived just as he got home.
This counts as decluttering right? Not like I needed another project, but golly I have lots of small balls, and half skeins of yarn piling up. I'll be planted on the porch as soon as I freeze some peas, and do the dishes.
The rest of the garden is finally in this morning, and had I not pushed myself today, it would not be going in. More rain is coming tonight and the next 3 days. It's getting too late for it. I haven't even checked the yellow squash to see if it needed replanted, but alas, the garden is in. It's a weed fest out there, but it's not about the look this year, it's all about the bounty.
...rain arrived during the night and well, it's we again. The battle of planting continued. Not to mention the weeding.
A huge batch of strawberry pancakes was made.
More strawberry jam was canned.
Hubby tilled in the rain yesterday. It literally stayed dry all day, and poof! Rain arrived just as he got home.
The rest of the garden is finally in this morning, and had I not pushed myself today, it would not be going in. More rain is coming tonight and the next 3 days. It's getting too late for it. I haven't even checked the yellow squash to see if it needed replanted, but alas, the garden is in. It's a weed fest out there, but it's not about the look this year, it's all about the bounty.
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Don't know how you're staying sane with all the rain and your gardening endeavors. You have peas to pick already? My pea vines haven't even started to climb on the trellis yet!
I need to go through some of my books, too. But have the definite feeling that task will have to wait for fall/winter. My dear husband is the one with the majority of the books that need to be gone through. He's been promising to do that for the past three winters. Wonder what I can do to get him on that this year??
I'm ashamed to say that I've never baked a pie from scratch... not because I don't want to, but
because I'm scare of making the pie dough. I know silly, right? Like the world is going to end if it doesn't turn out alright, LOL. Must learn, the already made pies taste a bit funny to me, plus they have so much sugar.
Have fun going through your books, and using up your yarn scraps! The afghan/blanket is turning out lovely!