Humor

HA!
HA HA HA!
I think I hear "Mommy, watch this trick" at least once a day... and sometimes the stunts are just as "awesome" as those done by friends back in college!
HA!

10 Years!

By Golly... it has been 10 years since Brian and I got married!
10 years!
A decade!
And, depending on which one of us you ask,  it has been about 17 since we started dating.
Gosh!
I've known Brian for nearly half of my life!
 Good thing I still love him... All the way to the moon, and back.

Here are some old photos of us, mostly from our time in Minnesota...2001-2005ish.

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Fish Festival and fireworks

Our town seems to be having parties all the time. We love this :-)  The boys love going into town to see what's going on, what games to play, what parades to watch, and what food to try.   Here are a couple of more shots from the Fish Festival... complete with a fireworks show at dusk.  This was both boys first fireworks and they were impressed.  Can't wait to get them out for forth of July.

First harvestings

 Our Garden is doing wonderfully!  There is so much green in there, and not all of it is weeds!
Even our little carrots, which went in last, our sprouting well.

 

 The tomatoes and the cucumbers have flowers on them.  We are hopeful that they will get busy and yield some fruit too.

We do have a few produce that are ready for harvest.
I discovered that we have a small patch of strawberries in the back corner (amongst some poison ivy).  Even after Brian hacking at the area with lawn mower all last year hasn't deterred all the plants.  We are yielding the bumper crop of 6 berries this year :-)


In the boxes, most of the fingerling radishes are ready.  I should have remembered how fast these little guys grow!  I had let Tamlin and Jude plant most of these seeds = tons of seeds in short little lines.  Next year, we need to remember to space our planting of radishes out, so that they all don't come to harvest at the same time!

All of us tried eating some of the raw radishes straight from the garden.  Tamlin pronounced them good!  So, now I'm looking for good radish receipes :-)

 

I'm eager to try this : Pesto, Radish, and Sea Salt Crostini or

Grilled Steak With Cilantro Sauce and Creamed Corn with warm tortillas or maybe even 

Radish Butter : http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/radish-butter

While searching for radish recipes, I found this quote by a fellow gardener / cook.  It totally sums up how I feel too!

Deborah Madison: I think once you get into the garden and that becomes part of your source of food, you realize the difference between eating food that’s really alive and that’s kind of sort of alive -- that’s been sitting around the store. I think of it as languishing compared to just picking things and bringing them in.  But there's also a quality of, “I grew it, it’s my baby, I love it no matter what.” And you just eat the ugliest stuff and you’re so happy. I am not a perfectionist gardener by any means; I’m a beginning gardener, and not everything comes out as it should. I always feel like, “Oh my gosh, it grew under my watch,” so there's sort of a feeling more of gratitude.

 http://www.splendidtable.org/story/what-to-do-with-the-radish

You go garden!
And you rock, Brian, for making this happen!