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New semester has started.

GAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!

How I spent my 50th birthday

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SILVERWOOD!!!!!! My very sneaky and lovable hubby surprised me with a trip. We've been wanting to go, but never really got around to it for one reason or another. He'd told me he had planned on a fishing trip up to Lake Pend O'Reille which I was looking forward to. Haven't been fishing up there in a long time. His original plan was to not tell me at all until we turned into the park, but then he realized that the logistics for going to a theme park are completely different then going fishing. So he spilled the beans when we woke up Sunday morning. Needless to say I was a VERY happy birthday girl LOL!!!!!!! So we got up, showered, coffeed, packed up what we would need and headed out. Got to Silverwood just after they opened at 11 am and got a parking space (hubby has a handicapped placard so we didn't have to wait in the LONG line for regular parking and managed to get one of the last open spaces they had) and got ready for the park. We brought Ms Ella:

Happy birthday to me!!!!

Hehehehe, turned 50 today :D

Garden news

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Because of the weather and all I don't have much in my garden. I've managed to get quite a bit of dirt and biomass in my raised bin and last night when I was watering the half I planted, saw a couple of walking onion sprouts. YAY!!!!!!! I still need to see about getting some more soil in the one half and then I will see about seeding in some greens for this fall and hopefully maybe some sweet onions and garlic. My neighbor gave me some chives from one of her pots, along with a Greek basil. Both are doing very well in the pots I put them in. I think I will seed in some more chive seeds to the one so I can have some new growth while I work on harvesting what is there now. My tomatoes have been chugging along, just flowers: Brandywine: Moskvich: Or so I thought until I started pruning some yellowed leaves from the Moskvich and found: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! My first tomato of the year!!!!!! It isn't very big: but it is a start. I am hoping

Veggie goodness

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Been buying zucchini and squash of late (now that I have a solution towards my garden I can't wait to get a raised bed of zucs and squash). I like to sauté them in a bit of olive oil and season with the Penzeys Mural of Flavor and then pair them with some kind of meat or in this case just over rice: It is also yummy with adobo seasoned chicken on a toasted GF bun: And with adobo spiced pork and over brown rice fettuccine noodles and sprinkled with Ricotta Salata: Hubby keeps saying zucchini and squash are evil, well, that just means it is MINE! ALL MINE!!!!! LOL!

Zazzle find of the week

Moods of Maggie:

Oy, I think summer has finally arrived.

Didn't get a whole heck of a lot done this weekend, too darned hot. I think Saturday was spent not moving as much as possible and running every fan in the place, plus taking advantage of the AC in the bedroom. We'd hoped to get some fishing done, but too hot for that. Needless to say, not much got cooked either, tho I tried out some teff flour pancakes for breakfast yesterday. Tolerable, very simple recipe, needs to be seriously tweaked to make them better. The recipe made quite a few, so the extras are stashed in the deep freeze. May look at a bread application for those. Took some pictures and wrote up more reviews for my review blog . I do like the scheduled post feature, I can write things up and then have them post at a later date. By having things post every other day or so I have about 2 weeks worth of posts ready to go. Now I just need to keep coming up with things to review LOL! We did manage to get a bit done on Sunday. We finally started ripping down the dama