Um, my cucumber plant is making more cucumbers than I need. Why did I start gardening?
Archives for July 2020
Garbage books
I think that my curmudgeoness is starting to take over. I really, really, really dislike garbage books. Most of current children’s books are complete crap.
This is a page from a popular author’s sequel. I’ve never read the first one (name withheld), but as I started to read this one with some children, I ‘noped’ right out of it. There is no punctuation. I’m sure it is a stylistic choice, but it sure is a dumb one.
Deconstructed staple
I bought a giant cutting board a while ago and in addition to doing a bang-up job holding the food I cut, it also calls to me to fill it with food to directly eat. This weekend I wanted to make a charcuterie board for lunch.
It was great: homemade bread, rolls of sliced meat, bits of cheese, peppers, pickles……. wait a minute.
All I did was eat pieces of a sandwich.
Doesn’t matter. It was still awesome.
Olive saver
Lloyd needed to take all his school computer stuff from the basement back to his classroom today and I tagged along. After helping him unload, I went on a quest for a better olive container.
We typically use a third to a half-can of olives at a time, and put the leftovers in a Pyrex bowl with a lid, the lid that lets all the olive juice spill all over the refrigerator. That means the bowl sits on a plate, and that has been annoying for the past twenty years.
Dollar Tree had my back: a berry container that has an integrated strainer! Woo-hoo!
My olives are saved. Breathe easy, everyone.
Yard Work
Sam and Rachel have been overhauling their backyard. They live on a large, one-acre lot and it’s lovely. So far it’s been a big expanse of grass, but now they’re carving it all up into something that will rival Mount Rushmore! There’s a big patio /firepit-watching area carved into their hill with a brick retaining wall, the beginnings of a flagstone path, a new patio area by their deck, and a dry creek bed for water mitigation from the house.
Sounds great, eh? Well, I’m too tired to load photos from Lloyd’s phone right now. We’ll see if I get to it by breakfast time. 🙂
Tree tired
After supper, we went to help some friends with some downed tree branches. Well, Lloyd went to help. I just stood around and gave ‘advice’. Some of the little branches were no trouble for Lloyd and his electric chainsaw, which is surprisingly powerful, but there is an actual tree that needs more help than he can provide.
Anyway, like a fool, I took no photos. Just imagine a woodsy forest with some old trees that are down. Now imagine that I am wielding the chainsaw with supreme strength and skill. C’mon – it just your imagination. Make me blonde while you’re at it.