Tonight we had a beautiful sunset and rainbow, but no rain. All of us love the rain and can’t wait for the stormy season to start. Hopefully by October.
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Growing Growing Garden
The garden is moving along beautifully. We are harvesting a couple tiny sweet strawberries every other day. I’m picking radishes almost daily as well. Our daughter loves to eat the peas right off the vine so none have made it back to the kitchen yet. They go straight from the vine into her mouth. I love…
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving and More Pictures
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I know we did! Alton Brown’s Turkey Brine gave us another moist and juicy turkey this year, even though I accidentally overcooked it. His recipe never fails me. You probably want to print that out for next year. Another to try is 101 Cookbooks Firecracker Cornbread recipe. …
Read MoreOur Backyard Vegetable Garden
My first vegetable garden was grown out of necessity. Tom and I had just moved 350 miles from our So Cal hometown to UC Santa Cruz’s family housing. We were broke. Flat broke. Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches broke. Typical starving students. After a few months of chicken drumsticks, PB&Js and bananas I decided…
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Shoots and Roots 