Prairie Garden

Mullets are hip again, right? "Bop!" = Stop! "Maynoes" = Tomatoes "Sooz" = Shoes "Papo" = P...

10 lbs dried green beans (now fits in 1 quart jar) 11 pints pickled sweet peppers 10-ish lbs dried green peppers (both pepper jobs were a...

Diego - 7 years old Truen - 4 (5 next month) Jamie - 20 months 

Romanced by tomatoes Squeeze took Friday off, so I had a full three days to focus on food preservation. This list blows my mind: 7...

East Garden: Early June The straw is laid down and all supports are in. Onions are growing in the foreground. Lettuce is the bright...

2 pints watermelon-rind pickles 7.5 pints charred chili BBQ sauce 9.5 quarts tomato sauce 1-2 pints tomato paste drying in the dehydrato...

2 pints watermelon-rind pickles 4 pints cantaloupe preserves 2 quarts dried plum tomatoes 11 quarts tomato sauce Still in the hopper (i...

Instilling a sense of duty has not come naturally to me as a parent.  I'm all about inspiration and affection, learning to love the worl...

Retronaut : I am beyond intrigued. People are people are people are people.  No matter when or where.  I love stuff like this becau...

It is the wee hours of the night/morning and I've been in the kitchen for most of the day . . . decanting sauerkraut, jamming and cannin...

I feel a burning lack of contemplative thought in my life right now.  I don't have time to read, I don't have time to sit and stare,...

Posting a little sooner than last year . . . My parents & sister left yesterday after a two-week visit. We spent a week at our pla...

I am supposed to be putting a chicken into the oven to roast; but instead I am snuggling with my littlest guy, still groggy from his nap.  ...

Various posts keep running through my head.  The one stuck on repeat most recently would have been titled "Things I Thought I'd Ne...

In Wisconsin, the week before last 

We've been here for 5 years now.  A post on that fact (five. years!) brewed in my head for several weeks, but nothing ever came of it.  ...

Has it really been over two weeks since I posted last?  Ugh.  Time flies, especially with less an hour of down-time each day.  I could stay ...

Today I'm going to make garlic scape pesto .  I dropped last summer's pesto remnants in a glass storage container that shattered on...

Post title: The Bright Side Picture caption: Only one of them was aware it existed. Endless giggles: Awkward Family Photos

All three of our boys are going through a chess binge (otherwise known as "chesst" at our house).  We have three sets: one cardboa...