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!

Finding Your Garden Why

I created a new website! It has my blog and the herbal products that I'm creating from the home grown herbs and flowers that I grow. Please come on over and follow me at: www.katiebirdsgarden.com Recent events have encouraged—and maybe forced—many people to grow their own food. This isn’t new to humans, but since people started living in cities, residential lots became smaller, time has become sparse, not many people were growing their own food. Grocery stores are abundant in most places, home delivery enables us to order things and receive them almost instantly. But people seem to be feeling the need to come back to the “roots” of supporting themselves, at least a little bit. So, you feel the need to garden. Before going out and buying all the seeds, you should think about why you actually want or need to do it. Some things that pop into mind could be, wanting to eat fresh (or maybe clean/more organic) food, reducing gro...

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 :)

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