Blessed we are to live where we do, to have the garden space and soil to enable us to grow a good quantity of our food, to have each other and the help and support of an oh-so-willing, loving and capable daughter living close by.
An illustration of our usual breakfast lately. Asparagus fresh from the garden, homemade rye bread and scrambled eggs with bits of bacon and parsley. Look at the yellow of those eggs. Shows what having chickens out on pasture can produce.
We've gotten close to 1-3/4" of rain in the last twenty-four hours. (Hip-hip-hooray!) So very welcome after hardly a drop of moisture since April. The garden is soaking up Mother Nature's gift and seems to be growing as we speak this morning!
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Doesn't home made / home grown just taste better? We just got rain last night and now I hear rumblings of thunder again this morning. The garden is already happy because of it. -Jenn
Jenn - We find no comparison to food that isn't homegrown. I guess we're spoiled, aren't we? :o) Like how can something as simple as lettuce taste soooo much better than store bought? Wishing you good rain. We may even have some more coming this week. Yay!!
Congrats on the rain!!!! Reminds me to be grateful too
Nancy - Still very gray and damp here today. More rain coming? Hope so. Got another 1/2" last night. Still not enough. Supposedly the burning ban won't be lifted until we get another 5" of rain. That's how dry the area has become. :o(
Do I think keeping gardening keeps old people young? Not really because folks are going to find their comfort zone and go with that. I think that a large number of folks of many ages have realized that homesteading is essential to many positives in our lives. Does it keep one moving and active? Absolutely. And I think we will find many a reason for growing one's own food.
May we all continue to grow our own food. For if we stop and the art of doing just that may likely go as so many other ways of life may disappear when needed the most.
We are getting a ton of rain here too, which means I am getting caught up with indoor cleaning/purging. Do you have your rye bread recipe on your blog? I am told my husband can eat rye bread on his diabetic diet. Also, does it freeze well, as it's just the two of us.
Kristina - I found this loaf of rye bread when digging in the freezer recently . . . which means I don't know which particular recipe it was made from. Sounds fairly scattered-brained, I know, but since rye is my husband's favorite kind of homemade bread, I'm forever trying any recipe I come across. But can say any and all recipes for rye do seem to freeze well with no problem. Sorry I can't share more. :o(
Goatldi - Amen!
Glad to hear you got rain! What a beautiful peony! Rosalea.
Rosalea - Tthank you, and that is my very first homegrown peony blossom!!
I think gardeners just naturally gravitate to being 'food snobs.' Nothing tastes better than something you've grown yourself. It is fractional sometimes, but still.... Plus, just the whole process of planning, growing, picking and harvesting keeps me in the game. I love it. I also shop at Walmart. After a near disaster dry spell, we have now started having lots of rain and wind. My sweetcorn, which was in tassels, is now laying flat on the ground. Harry Truman was right, "It's just one (darned) thing after the next."
Cheers!
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