Pesto Win!

I didn’t even really know what pesto was until I was living in California.  My family never made it growing up and I’d never really even heard about it.  I think I must have seen it someplace while looking for recipes that were fast and practically threw themselves together because I didn’t cook at the [...]

Lately

Today I did a lot of this.

That’s washing dishes in case you couldn’t tell.

It was also laundry day and the last load of towels just finished drying.  I might even fold them tonight instead of unceremoniously dumping them into the still full basket of unfolded towels I did last week.  Maybe not.

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Hairyshoefairy, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? Parts IV and V

Seeing as how this is my first attempt at a real garden all on my own I’ve had to rely heavily on other people’s knowledge and experience and everyone I’ve talked to and everything I’ve read said, due to our freaky Utah weather, I should wait to plant my more fragile plants (pretty much everything [...]

Hairyshoefairy, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? Part III

You will never believe this but

I’M A GARDENER!

I GARDEN!

Sort of.

The seeds I have planted have actually sprouted!  I have been so good about watering and making sure they’re okay I feel like a new mama.  The peas in the yard are getting so big and I’ve even pulled out plants that [...]

Hairyshoefairy, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? Part II

My grandpa (my mom’s dad) was a farm boy.  He was born around the turn of the century (last century, obviously), lived in the middle of nowhere, and didn’t go to school until he was 8 or so because before that he was too little to ride the horse by himself all the way into [...]