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Magical

Jenny’s first Ren Faire. Magical. 💚🐉🧚‍♂️🧝‍♂️💐🐎🧚🧙🍄🌈🍗🃏🌻🦉🦋🍅🏹🎭🪓🔮📯📜🗝️⚔️🎶 (But 🚫🐫!)

Not Barbie

That moment when you’ve been SO EXCITED TO SEE THE BARBIE MOVIE AT THE DRIVE-IN and then arrive, pay for tickets, park, proclaim BEST DAY EVER and realize…

Cucumbers!

Reason #327 He is (Husband) Who Makes Me Smile (HWMMS) – While riding past the cucumber strip on the tractor I hear “HOLY SHIT WE GOT CUCUMBERS!” Hurrah!

Medicinal Garden in Bloom

The medicinal herbal garden is flourishing this year. So happy. I’ve harvested a whole bunch already. Holy Basil, Bee Balm, Horehound, St. Johns Wort, Marshmallow, Lavender, Yarrow, Elecampane,…

Someone’s been eating grass, I see.

Rescued!

As you can see, I rescued about 2/3 of the corn from the weeds this weekend.

$2 Herbs!

Thank you Draught’s Farm!

There’s always room…

Around the homestead this morning…

Roasted Veggies. (Peppers, Onion*, Kohlrabi*, Zucchini**, Summer Squash** & Garlic*) Veggie Pesto Angel Hair Pasta. (Cherry Tomatoes, Red Peppers, Broccoli*, Green Onion*, Cilantro* & Garlic*) Endless Veggie Stock…

New Soob

Say hello to our new Soob. She’s the color of blood because 2023 is the year of bleeding $$$. Kidding, not kidding.

Endless Weeding

MARIGOLDS

Tis the time of year where the weeding is ENDLESS. I found this wee bright spot in one of the strip gardens where I tossed SO MANY MARIGOLD…

Baby Cuca

Squash Blossoms

I rescued a strip of squash plants from the weeds and ended up thinning out half the patch. I hate killing plants so others will thrive but I’m…

Air

Yesterday was ick, silly me having windows open Sunday night not knowing the air was angry again. Woke up ick today. Two days w/out outside time and a…

Garlic

Omggggarlic! This is one of three rows. Wheeeee! Last year was a bust, this year BOOM! MY GARDEN SOUL IS SO HAPPY! 🧄🧄🧄

Pennyroyal

Oh and the giant clump of plants I thinned out earlier this year? I thought it was marjoram because I found a tag labeled as such nearby…nope, pennyroyal….

A few me moments before heading into work…

Porch Coffee Day 189

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Not Knee High

Overlooking the not-yet knee high but freshly weeded corn garden.

Old Fort Niagara

Happy.  

Books Read – June 2023

4 Books for June. Eek. 80 books so far in 2023. 2023 Reading Challenge

Porch Coffee Hair

Red Zone

Gosh I hope it gets better tomorrow, I really would like to spend time at @oldfortniagara but this air quality REALLY affects me. Even masked I don’t think I…

Shortbread Shortbread

(Homegrown) Rosemary Shortbread. (Homegrown) Chamomile Lemon Shortbread.

Air

Here we go again. I just can’t imagine how bad it is for everyone close to these fires. 💔