Good Morning!
Whew! I woke at 2:30 this morning to very heavy rain, thunder and lightening. We ended up with about an inch of rain overnight. It still feels muggy and more rain is in the forecast for throughout the day. I'm sure the garden is happy.
How was your weekend? Mine was good. Plenty of back and forth to C&M's to care for Talbot, plenty of cooking to put food for C&M&I in their fridge for their return from Boston and more garden produce was picked. I made some ginger cream cookies.
Yum! These cookies are soft (which means Fletch doesn't much care for them) and delicious. The cookie jar at the house in Vermont was often filled with these (the recipe is from my Aunt Ellen), More than half will find their way over to Iris today!
There were also blueberry muffins baked, Spicy Cuban Beef prepared and rice cooked. Also a confetti corn salad (fresh corn, red pepper, cucumber, ginger, garlic, basil and mint with a dressing of oil, rice wine vinegar, a pinch of sugar and fresh lime juice). The kids made it down from New England around dinner time, so hopefully they enjoyed an easy meal!
Talbot was happy to see me when I made it over to feed him. I sat and read for a bit on Saturday morning after feeding him and he kept me company!
Talbot is a big licker - LOL. When I was standing ini the kitchen getting his food bowls filled, he would rub up agains me and then lick my leg. Better than clawing me I suppose!
I found a wine that I HAD to buy:
Great label - naturally from California. The wine is ok, not great, a little sweeter than I prefer, but drinkable.
Meanwhile, the garden continues to produce.
A few green beans, some lettuce and Swiss chard, a few sun gold cherry tomatoes and another abundant amount of yellow pole beans. This was yesterday's haul. The yellow beans are on a mission to outshine any zucchini plants in the neighborhood! I have never seen pole beans produce so much (we really do not have that many plants!). Luckily our neighbors Rob and Eva took yesterday's amount. I had also left a huge bag in C&M's fridge and still have way too many beans in our fridge. I may take a page from Bonny's book and start blanching and freezing some. We love them...just not every night!
Colin's front garden bed has another Tigridia bloom:
I just can't get over how gorgeous these flowers are. I'm definitely getting some bulbs to plant next Spring. He also has another flower blooming that I have not seen before:
Very pretty. I'm pretty sure this is one of the native pollinators he bought.
Well, time for coffee and I want to pull together some kind of lunch to take over to C&M's today. I'm excited to see Iris again. Whatever your plans, I hope they bring you joy.
