Prairie Garden

I'm alive, but our computer, sadly, is not.  Or at least, it is in a very deep coma.  A virus attacked and totally decimated it.  The ET...

Apple sauce (pink with skins) - FINISHED Tomato sauce (from a neighbor's excess harvest) Diego's obsession with gourds (he woke up...

(This happened last month) We were passing by a McDonalds with an enormous blow-up Ronald McDonald, sitting and waving, perched atop the b...

An old B.D.P. favorite, though I couldn't find the 7" edit on YouTube, which was what we actually danced to.  The nostalgia was m...

I am canning salsa verde (a.k.a. roasted tomatillo salsa) today. Our big juicy tomatoes were a total blow-out this year, due to wallowing i...

I've been making the most seriously delicious creamy-thick chowder of late, pretty much straight from the garden.  I used the Zucchini ...

Squeeze dug a little "pond" in our front garden this past spring. I say "pond" because it is really just an old plastic ...

Siberian Sweet watermelon Apricot flesh with lovely brown seeds -- sweet and delightfully chewy. Best of all: from our garden and Squeeze...

What do you get when you add chopped tomatoes and scallions, shredded cheese, a little bit of sea salt, and a nice lump of butter to brown r...

Ugh, I should post something. We've been back for a week now. But where do I start? Things are good, the weather is cool, sunny and brig...

Hooooooola, estoy aquí! I've gone AWOL because my parents and sister have been staying with us for the past week. Needless to say, the b...

A friend and neighbor is lending me her old camera until we can buy a new one, so I finally have pictures again. What a relief! It has been ...

Southwestern Minnesota doesn't have mountains or beautiful trees, both components of landscapes that I hold dear and esteem highly. Sigh...

Yep, poop transplants . This was local news throughout Minnesota a couple of years ago, but I just stumbled upon a New York Times article p...

We battled mosquitoes and heat and sweated like hogs this weekend and got a good chunk of the East Garden paper and strawed. What a relief!...

I just went out and picked a cucumber for a snack. Nummmmmm . . . I love that.

Honestly, is there anything tastier than a green bean just picked from the garden? Eating one always reminds me of my grandpa and his garden...

We've felt a little down about our garden this year, particularly Squeeze. Not because things aren't coming along nicely, because th...

My little belly is starting to look like a lil' belly, mostly. Kind of. I will be glad to start looking a bit pregnant, because I'm ...

The hair-cut was over a month ago, but my parents, let alone any of you, have yet to see it. This pregnancy has put me in a major communicat...