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veggies-first picking from our garden of 2009

just a start but looking good.

Green beans, tomatoes and biscuits.  I'm going to snap these beans and cook them in a pot with some red potatoes, make some biscuits, slice the 2 large tomatoes from our vines and ...dinner!  nothing could be better expect more tomatoes and maybe some lima beans.  They aren't ready yet.

It's hot this Sunday, right now it's about 92* so I'm piddling in the house the rest of the day.  Might make some cookies.  need a chocolate fix!

Enjoy your Sunday!

More pictures, I just took them a few minutes ago...

here you go, updated garden.  Ray is putting up a trellis system the tomatoes, they are all looking great.  The beans are marvelous and the pictures will tell the story.  And a few of my Kit Kat girl who follows me around talking the whole time.  I'm so glad she found us last fall.

purple hull pea pods forming...

a purple flower
grape tomatos, we are going to have lots!  they are so sweet

coneflowers are still looking good!  Happy Bees!
Matt's carrots, broccoli and beets, these got a late start.  Something is eating on the broccoli.  Got any good suggestions for organic bug spray?

See the cukes, they are turning yellow.  CJ suggested Epsom salts, hope it works.

my little helper

garden pics from a week ago

I'll have more pictures today.  The garden is growing by leaps and bounds.  Today I will pick our first mess of Kentucky wonder green beans.  They are so pretty.  Tomatoes are turning red which means biscuits and tomatoes, my favorite.  The purple hull peas are really neat watching how they grow, the limas that we pulled up and replanted are starting to flower.  It's all just so exciting.  Bought my pressure canner, several cookbooks for instruction and ideas (thanks CJ for all the suggestions) and have stocked up on cans so I guess I'm ready.  Nothing is better than homegrown veggies in the dead of winter when nothing tastes good from the grocery store.

for now, a few pictures from last week in the garden

  do you see the blooms...

now they are nice long green beans ready to be cooked...I'll show you when I pick them..

these are the puple hull peas

this little white flower becomes the pea pod...pretty neat when it turns brown and falls off..

carrot tops are growing nicely, and the limas are starting to run, remember these are from last week, the limas are getting little flowers now.  I'll take pics today.

I leave you with a couple pictures of our Kiwi.  We planted this 3 years ago.  Haven't harvested Kiwi yet, last year we had one the size of a thimble.  This year we have seen 2 so far and they are a little bigger.  If you know anyone who grows Kiwi, get me some growing hints.

3 year old vine

do you see the little Kiwi?  It has a long way to go before you could eat it. 

Well, I'm off to take more pictures, come back soon and see how this garden is growing.

In the meantime, go and have some fun today!

wanna win an apron

go to this website for details.

http://notquitejunecleaver.com/

my new toy, it speaks for itself- Volvo C70 T5

All I can say is "I am in Love"!  if you have one let me know how much you like yours.

I'm off to drive.  No wonder I don't get anything done at home!

Cats in the corn...

and other Saturday things at my house.

Kit Kat was helping me do the weeding and then something got in her way

Who is that getting in my way, MR. BLU you sneaky boy

Hey, Kit!  You missed some grass!

And the garden is growing quite nicely.

See those Bush Limas, guess what, they are runners.  We had to work in the heat and make trellis for them to run on.

Green Beans are running, Purple Hulls are growing and the tomatoes are getting lots of blooms and little tomatoes.

A rabbit came for breakfast.  He really liked the Boston Lettuce. 

Matt's tomatoes are looking wonderful.  See the cucumbers, we added a trellis for them to run on and they are getting little blooms.  Cucumbers next.

and then we have Matt's broccoli, beets and carrots.  These were just planted from seeds about 3 weeks ago

and I'll let you for now with my favorite shot  of the day

my purple coneflowers

Have a great Saturday and do something fun!

how does your garden grow?

just a few more pictures of the garden.  Things are growing good and as I post this, the garden is getting bigger and better.  Lots of little tomatoes, baby cukes starting up and my purple coneflowers are just breathtaking!

enjoy the pics.

Everything is bigger now.  I'll try to take photos in the next few days and show you again.

Have a wonderful day and do something fun!

and a shot of the lace wing hydrangeas!

what a wonderful giveaway

if you love Patriotic Red/White/Blue, then check out Kaaren's blog over at

http://thepaintedquilt.blogspot.com/2009/06/4th-of-july-giveaway.html

for a marvelous giveaway!  Just go over and post a comment picking out the gift you want to win.

A blog win on a giveaway

I have become totally addicted to reading blogs, love them, get great ideas for recipes, crafts and house stuff online.  There are a lot of talented people out there.  I register for giveaways when there is something that interests me and on a rare occasion I win.  This is my latest surprise.

INKINGO- if you haven't seen this check out the website

http://www.lindafranz.com/

She has the most amazing way of doing hand piecing of quilt blocks and you can also use this for machine.  Precise, Precise, Precise.

Anyway, there is a yahoo group and they were having a contest and I won one of the kits for Inklingo, a starter type kit and it came last week in the mail.  Today I'm reading everything and going to try to do it.  Wish me well.

Thanks Val for such a nice little kit.  Love the colors together.  Hope I can do it correctly.  Looks like lots of fun.
I'll show the finish if I'm successful. 

Funny cats we can't live without

If you have cats then you know they have a way of wrapping themselves around your heart.  We have 4, 2 inside and 2 strays that are now living with us and sleeping inside at night.  The 2 inside cats we have had for 9 and 8 years.  They are our cat babies.  Funny thing about cats, you can never figure them out. 
The other day Ray bought some new jeans and put them on the kitchen island to take to the alteration shop to be hemmed.  This is what we found there when we came up from the back of the house.
Our 8 year old Missy asleep on the jeans.  She loves to sleep on Ray's clothes.  Guess she wants to leave a few hairs on there to remind him of her always.  She is a mess.  She is also the one who licks all the hair off and if you look close you can see part of a bare back leg.

Then today what do I find?

This is Emma, our 9 year old male.  He loves the Velux blanket on my bed.  I went in to get dirty clothes and this is what I found.  No one helped him get under the blankets.  Found this at 10:00am and he is still asleep there now at 2:00pm.  What a spoiled baby.

Hope your Sunday is going well, mine is lazy which suits me fine.  I needed a break after a particularly hectic week.