Hot to the One-Touch

Has anyone noticed that it's damn hot in Minnesota?

My cat Stickee, hogging the fan this morning

I've been fighting with my One-Touch Ping meter remote for the past 2 mos. It had "Ping-ed" out. The thing didn't seem to read or sense the strips when inserted or when blood was added. I finally got fed up with swearing and throwing strips around and called One-Touch and they promptly sent me a new one! Awesome customer service they have. How nice it is not to waste 3-4 strips per test! Back on track with my awesome testing schedule.

As for the home front:

Too hot to paint right now...

The garden is going insane with this humidity and heat! I have to take pictures this week. We've been eating snow peas regularly for a couple weeks and I've already harvested my first 1 1/2 cups of garden peas. I really enjoyed sitting on the stoop shelling them :) I quick-blanched and froze them. I'm hoping to have at least one ziplock bag of frozen peas this year! The scarlett runner beans, trionfo violetto beans and other climbing beans are over 6 ft tall and starting to fill out. I'm hoping to dry some of the varieties-wonder if I'll have enough?

My broccoli plants are giant, but no broccoli in them yet! I forget how long they take to make a crown, can anyone inform me?

Boozy Beets?

I'm reading up on lacto-fermenting vegetables, in preparation for my abundant harvest I'm hoping for this year. One random article said, "Just be careful not to cut beets too small as they contain a lot of sugar and can produce alcohol." Hmm...beet wine anyone? Does it exist? Further research is needed on this one! *** Oh good Lord...it does exist! http://jinman2871.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/beet-wine/ from randomly searching and found the Prairie Girl blog!

The Big 1000!

My little blog that could has hit over a 1000 views today! Thanks everybody, it makes it so much more fun to know that people are actually looking at it and reading :) There will be some more exciting things to talk about this summer, here's a short sneak peek list: Bedroom makeover Office makeover Gardens galore The story of a farm stand AND some other exciting things to come in the future :)

Summer Project!

Nothing to do with diabetes here, I just wanted to show the awesome cabinet I found on Craig's List and hope to be picking up tonight! It'll be my summer project, and Jeff has already said 'you'll never finish it' oh but I will. We desperately need the storage in our kitchen and there's a big, empty wall that needs something on it too. Here it is, not lookin' too hot. The red paint is actually glass in the cabinets. I'm very excited. It needs a good re-furbishing...not sure what finish I want it in, any ideas?

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