making a pie for my son

Ground cherry pie.

All tucked into sugary-goodness.

Cooling, outside.

spanish playgroup

Reading Spanish-language books before the playgroup begins.

pico de gallo

Everything from my garden! Cherry toms, onions, cilantro. Well...the lime is not from the garden. :)

toms and ground cherries

Look mama! A worm!


He's so cute, I had to edit a close-up. :)

Helping mama shuck the ground cherries.

I told him I make lots of things with ground cherries, including pie.

Ground cherry.
Enough to make a pie!

Tonight's harvest.

Getting ready to skin the yellow romas to make a garlic pizza sauce - yum!

Another odd-ball tom.

carrots, plums, potatoes, and pears!

I harvested these big boys to make a lovely, delicate cream of carrot soup today.

Harvesting the majority of the remaining carrots to turn them into a carrot soup base for this winter.

I pulled these two intertwined carrots out - the most erotic carrots I've ever grown!

My whimsy guy harvesting the last of the Italian plums.

Gorgeous colours!


Pulled some potatoes to mash them for dinner. Yum!

Our kitchen window sill is such a snapshot of our lives: a tomatillo ripening; a button from JoyBoy's Roc Roc; a paper wasp nest; a broken bit of amethyst crystal; a few rocks from JoyBoy; a mud wasp nest, a tall amethyst crystal.

And now...the pears!

riding his big-boy bike

my lil helper

Harvesting pole bean seeds for next year. :)

busy day today

I harvested a pound of jalapenos and made jalapeno jam (so good!).
Then I harvested 10 pounds of plums from our Italian plum tree and made plum jam (yum!).

All set to skin tomatoes to make jalapeno salsa.

Such bounty!

Nekkid little toms.

I've seen some fun mutations this year, including two sets of conjoined toms...joined at the stem. I haven't seen that before.

And...tonight's off-the-vine harvest. :)

step two in making spaghetti sauce to can

Nekkid, without their skins.
The spaghetti sauce smelled soooooo good as it was simmering in the pot on the deck.
My gift to the neighbors. the smell, not the sauce. Haha

art show

(Seen on a newspaper bin, downtown. Made me giggle.)


Not a good shot of her work, but I loved the bear and the bird and wanted a quick shot to use as a study at some point.

happy birthday tycho!

in the mood to paint...

I've been wanting to create a vibrant focal point in our kitchen and today, I stopped and bought a gallon of dark cranberry paint...changes are afoot!

friday at the zoo, with laura, too!

(river otters)



We ran into a little gal from our Spanish-immersion playgroup. The kids played for a while. Sweet!
(She is already 3 years old...much smaller than our still-2-year-old.)

Can you tell we are riding saw-horses, saddles and all?



Hi Bairbre. :)

Auntie Laura introduces Kaemon Ze to the sugary goodness of cotton candy.



In the end...he doesn't like it very much. AWESOME! LOL!