We were in the garden Sunday morning, and while I was glancing at my in-ground tomato plants, I noticed what looked like white spikey roots growing out of a tomato leaf. Mind you, my eyesight is not great, but I immediately thought about how weeks before, I noticed low branches were beginning to develop roots [...]
Archive for July, 2012
Homemade Refrigerator Pickles & Ideas for Used Pickle Juice
I’m excited to have a bounty of pickling cucumbers in my garden this season. I had such a huge batch the other day, that I decided to make homemade refrigerator pickles. After googling a few recipes, I found some basic instructions over at http://hipgirlshome.com/. Notes: Originally I used the quantities from the original recipe: 1 [...]
Gardening Diary: Busy Bees Buzzing
I was weeding the vegetable garden this morning, and it made me so happy to hear the sound of working bumble bees buzzing in my blossoms. A few whizzed by my ear, and it’s funny but it didn’t scare me or make me flinch. Oh how times have changed. I’m in the thick of it, [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: July Month 9 / Week 4
Project Food Budget Weekly total: $62.04 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, [...]
3 Year Anniversary
Three years ago on July 20th, 2009, a Facebook friend posted to her wall: “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me” …and it changed my life. Happy anniversary to me! Life is good!
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: July Month 9 / Week 3
Project Food Budget Weekly total: $87.92 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, [...]
Gardening Diary: Tomatoes!
Yay! The other day, I noticed a couple of my cherry tomatoes were on the verge of “redness” and this morning, I was able to pick some red cherry and sun gold tomatoes! 11 in all! (I picked 1 sun gold to taste to make sure they were ripe) Unfortunately, there is a critter(s) that’s [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: July Month 9 / Week 2
Project Food Budget Weekly total: $110.57 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, [...]
Gardening Diary: Fascinating Bug Life
I saw two awesomely interesting things today in the garden. First I saw a small-sort-of-dragonfly-ish bug with some sort of white stuff under it. Initially I thought he was caught in something, so I touched it with my scissors and he flew off. He landed on another tomato stake and I got a closer look. [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: July Month 9 / Week 1
Project Food Budget Weekly (4 day) total: $119.44 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch [...]
