Pickles and Peaches and Salsa...Oh My!

You can sure tell in my house when the end of summer is approaching.

I have pickles on the brewing on the counter and peach juice all over. Time to freeze pies for the winter and get enough of Grandma's pickles made to supply my family for the next year! Next project, is salsa. Soon. I have to schedule this with Tyler, as he's the one who wanted to make it and thus encouraged the area in my garden for the tomatoes, peppers and onions!

This will be a good productive fall.

9 Day Sweets

Last year I had a pickling buddy, this year I don't.

Little Pig

Okay...so everyone knows I don't watch much TV and I certainly can't stand just having the TV on for noise. Well, I love the new Geico commercial and laugh every time, that I leave the TV on so I can come running to watch once I hear the squealing.

The little pig that cries "wee, wee, wee all the way home". I can't get enough of it.

I feel like the cats when their food drops. They bullet to the laundry room...I bullet to the family room.

Please everyone, you have got to go on-line to see this commercial.

Margarita In A Bag

You know when you find a new wonderful item at Trader Joes or Costco for example, and you feel the need to share the great find...well here is my new discovery: Margarita In A Bag.

Charley and I were at a party for the 4th of July that served them. They were great but I thought not much again of them. Then a couple of weeks ago, again I was at a function and they served them. Okay. Now I need the details.

Fred Meyer. They are so handy to fix. The bag is $5.99 and you fill it with tequila, triple sec and water. Freeze and since the alcohol won't let it freeze solid, it is a slushy treat for at least 10-12 servings.

Cheryl and the kids are over at Sun Lakes this week for the adoption agency annual camping trip. It is 96* and she just called to thank me for sharing the new find. She went to FM two days ago and stocked up and is having her "grown-up" drink!

So migrate your way to FM and ask where they are kept, because a bit hard to find. You too, will be thanking me. ....and girls, you'll find them in the freezer in the garage next to a turkey!

Blueberries

Are you smarter than a robin? or can you just hack into a Facebook account?

I ask this to everyone, because apparently I'm not. I love watching the birds. I have two birdbaths in my perennial gardens in the front and really enjoy seeing how much they enjoy fresh water and knowing that I'll always have it available. A good bath, a little drink...lovely, except the crows who enjoy leaving chicken bones, not so pretty and they don't look good with the poppies.

Since I planted my new berry garden in the back, I put netting over the raspberries so that the birds wouldn't bother them. Well I had extra netting and thought I'd put it over my blueberries, which I baby every single plant and berry. The crop this year is great. I'd see how many green ones I have on the limbs and anxiously wait the turning of green, pink, blue to purple....time to pick and make something delicious! The darling little girls next door do come over when I'm home and we pick a few berries and they love it as much as I do. But what is happening??? Where are all the berries going? Let me tell you. The monsters that I have been treating with fresh water have not been detoured by the netting to get to my berries because they are posting themselves on stakes that I keep to make the plants straight - okay now I have pulled those out of the ground. So then I see them, mind you 4-6 birds at a time, on the ground and hopping like frogs to get under the plant and snap a berry whatever color it is and pull it off! One big gulp and gone!

These guys were my friends, but I don't share my precious berries with anyone other than family. The birds have taken so many of the berries that I will now go to the farmers market and purchase some to freeze. What a pity.

Bad Funk

I'm in a funk.

Help me out ladies. During the past week or so, I've had some conversations, views on Facebook, outings with family members (outside of our Power of 4) that have not been very nice. They aren't good for me and don't make me feel good inside. I'm not sure how much is intentional, but it sure seems like it is once you look at all the facts, players and situations.

The only way I know how to get rid of this heaviness is cut off the source.

I like my life very lighthearted and giving without any drama or mean spirited involvement and lately it feels like that has been altered.

I guess my immediate solution is go out and work in the garden.

Great Movie

Okay everyone....I just finished an amazing movie called A Woman in Berlin. It is sub titled so you have to have time to read as well as watch. I love watching foreign films and don't mind that they are sub-titled. This one was very easy to enjoy the movie and read. No so many sentences at one time and slowly done.

Very nice. Please take the time and let me know how you like it.