The Smith's Aloha Bubble

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The last of the garden goods

Onions!

Basil Flowers

Herbs!

I have to say that I was so please with my garden this year. When Brian and I were looking for houses It was very important that we bought a house with a good area for a garden. Some things did great like my tomatoes and carrots, other things not so much like my pumpkins, squash and beans. Somethings I can't wait to plant more of like onions (they were so sweet!) and other things that won't plant again like broccoli. My peppers I will start sooner inside so hopefully my crop will be better. In theory I will have a green house for next season. We got 12 double pane windows from Freecycle on Sunday. Now Brian just has to build it... if he ever finishes that silly motorcycle. Here are some pictures of the last of things from the garden. I have been drying, freezing, and canning things for a month now and finished up the last of it this past weekend. For as much as I wish we could be totally self sufficient and I could grow and preserve all our food for the winter, I am very thankful for the grocery store.

Catch up

I know I have so much to catch up on. I have been very busy with my photography gig and all the other things that happen around here....

Friday, October 24, 2008

The things are kids say

For the past couple weeks even when Danika goes into the bathroom to go potty her pants and panties have still been wet. I kept thinking it was because she wasn't getting there in time...

NOPE!

I just learned that she has not been taking her pants and panties off, just peeing right through them. YUCK!

So after explaining to do that and blah blah blah ( which I am sure it is what it sounds like) she says to me, " You're right mom I should have listened to you. I won't do that anymore".

There goes my serious face... we will see if her clothesa dry the next time she goes.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Camping at Chatfield

Fruits of my labor... literally!

With last nights temperature dropping to the 30's I decided I better harvest as much as I could that was ripe. Now I have much pickling, canning and drying ahead of me. It is little eggplants in the bag.

The garden monster! 100% organic... well maybe 99% since we have only lived here a year and the seeds weren't organic. This sucker was 1lb 6 oz, 5 inch diameter. Other ones I got off this plant were in the 10-14 oz range! Yum!