Tomatoes

Looks like this one will be ripe in about a week.  I planted 5 kinds of tomatoes this year.  The one pictured is a Super Fantastic which is a hybrid variety.  I also planted Goliath (heirloom) and Red Beefsteak (heirloom) Sweet Cherry 100  (garden favorite for me) and Celebrity, which is a bush tomato which I will never grow again regardless of how well it does.  I found out Monsanto owns the rights to it, so no matter how good it does or is, this will be it's one and only year.  It has been a fantastic year so far for gardening in Oklahoma.  Have not had to water for the last 3 weeks and things are just shooting up.  Need to mow more than once a week at this point.  The bugs are off schedule too.

Sunday

It's raining again.  At least it is not a downpour like most of our recent rain has been.  Molly is asleep on the floor behind me.  She occasionally makes a dog noise and rolls over.  We brought her in the house this last fall and I don't think the house has been the same since.  Our 4 cats put up with her and  it seems that she has adopted them.  I think I will turn today into a cooking day.  Can't make bread in this kind of weather but macaroons and shortbread cookies would work just fine.

OK, so I was watching Braveheart again tonight.......duh, on my favorites list.  Makes sense now since I joined Ancestry .com.  I did the dna test.  75% from the British Isles, 5% Native American, 2% Irish, we won't talk about the rest.......jewish/oriental.  I have traced my direct maternal line back to 900 AD.....of course my mom is a genealogist so I had a head start but....Adair is Scot/Irish/Cherokee....Starr is British...Childers is British...Fitzgerald is Scot (think Geraldine uprising)  Damn I actually found a Bruce, a Kennedy, an Agnew and a Stuart.

Squash 2014

Still here.  Thought I would post some pictures of this years garden.  The squash is really looking good this year.  It is time to finish off the spinach and probably the lettuce as it is getting too hot for it.  There will be an abundance of tomatoes also.

Hopefully I can get some canning done this summer and try out some new recipes I have found online.  Like the Coconut Oil Chocolate one I  found this week.

These squash plants are called lemon squash and they are an heirloom variety that I have planted for the last several years.

The weather has seemed different this year.  With all the polar vortexes putting off planting time until later and also killing off some of the bug populations it seems.  We have seen some different kinds of bugs and birds this year.  We had a Hawk moth in the backyard this week and wild hemlock sprang up in the backyard as well.

The hemlock has been removed  (with gloves and a plastic bag)  I was afraid that Molly would accidentally get into it.

Curly top

I just lost 3 tomato plants to curly top virus, my lovely Cherokee Purples and a Patio.  I had to bite my lip and rip them from the soil.  I will be shopping for more plants next week.  Other than that I think this garden season is going well 

men in kilts

I have decided that men in kilts are very attractive.  I could say "sexy" but that would make me sexist.  It's almost as if putting on the kilt changes their attitude.  Needless to say, I attended a Scottish flavored wedding last weekend.  Not only were the groomsmen all in kilts and the groom but there were other guests in their clan attire as well.  After the ceremony every kilted man pulled a bottle from within their suit jacket as if by magic.
I understand that the dancing lasted well into the night.  The girls and I left around 9 pm.  I think we will attend the Scottish games this year.

Hey there

It's been a long while since I have posted.  Must I say that I have been very busy?  In a nutshell, I joined Facebook and then deleted it completely, talk about addicting.  Put in a completely new garden and am now in the second year for it and taken sewing back up.  I sewed professionally while the kids were little and then for a little while during Erin's high school years.  Relearning how to thread my serger was a real challenge.  To make it even more daunting is the fact that it is a 5 thread quantum lock with differential settings from the late 90's.  It took me 3 days and I had to download the manual from the Singer website but I finally got it right.  All this to sew a flower girl dress for my granddaughter Brigid.  Now Erin wants a dress and has started finding other odd things to fix.  I guess I better think about re doing the spare bedroom into a workspace.