There are about 10 Hummingbirds flitting about, feeding or waiting their turn, at the 2 feeders on my front porch. Murphy is sitting on the table by the windows, just trembling! I'm not sure if she is trembling with delight or despair! LOL She's chattering, too which is something she usually does when she is curled up near me and is seemingly content......not sure what it means in this case. God, I love that cat!!
I had a rather horrifying experience with my patio tomato plants today. I've wanted my own tomato plants on the back patio since we moved into this house. For some silly reason, this is the first year I have actually gotten any for myself. I have/had? 2 Husky Cherry plants and 1 Grape Tomato plant. I've been tending them carefully and they've been doing so well. Especially the Grape Tomato. In fact, after Chuck left for work this AM I had intended to go back out and take pictures of this robust, healthy plant with it's awesome clusters of Grape Tomatoes on it. But, alas, I got distracted by my pot of Kick Ass coffee and FaceBook.....then laundry, then baking. In fact I was right in the middle of melting my butter and white chocolate (for my Raspberry White Chocolate Blondies...yum!) when Chuck came in the back door and gruffly demanded to know what the hell I did to my tomato plants!
Me: Nothing.....why??
Chuck: Well, all the leaves are gone off the plants!
Me: yeah, right. Bull shit! I'm trying to bake here.
Chuck: SERIOUSLY!!!
Me: WTF?!? They were fine when you left this AM.
Chuck: Well, you better come and look at them now.
2 of them...stripped 90% clean!. Bare stems and only a couple tomatoes that had started to ripen. All leaves and green tomatoes GONE! Between 9 AM and 2 PM. 5 Hours. So there we were, circling the tomato plants, scratching our heads, when suddenly I saw the biggest, ugliest, fattest green worm I have EVER seen in my life! Well camouflaged , wrapped around the last green Grape Tomato! SOOOO disgusting!!!!!!!! Chuck plucked it off and stomped it, while I kept finding more and more! Between the 2 plants he plucked and stomped 9 or 10 of those beasties. Upon Googling them, I found out that they are Tomato Horn Worms. These suckers were like 4-5" long and as big around as my pinky finger! Nasty, nasty, nasty. So nasty that I won't even post a picture here.
There aren't any (yet) on Chuck's tomato plants out in the garden. I sure hope they'll be spared. We're having enough trouble keeping them going in all this hot weather. What the weather hasn't ruined, the resident Armadillos have been digging up. Sad gardening year around here, I'll tell ya'.
I keep little weather icons on my desktop. One for here in Rogers, AR and one for North Pole, AK. 104 here today and 58 and sunny there. You ALL know where I wish I was right now! And not just for the weather. I know I just missed out on 2 yummy birthday cakes!
Sure wish I had more input on my last post about my cookbook. Of course, since I started this new blog after not having written much for so long, my readership is down so I guess I can't expect much feedback. Ah well....and so it goes. All y'all will be sorry when me and my cookbook make the big time. Just sayin'.
Showing posts with label *Cookbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Cookbook. Show all posts
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
I'm Gonna Be A Writer!!!!!!
Well, sort of a writer. I have finally decided to do something that Chuck has been trying to get me to do for years. I'm gonna write a cookbook!!
Years and years ago, I had found this awesome program {Kitchen Gourmet} that I could enter all of my recipes in. It had a great layout and made a nice presentation. One year for Christmas, I printed it all out, put it in sheet protectors and made a nice binder cover for it and presented it to Terri for a gift. Through the years and several computers and operating systems later, I can no longer use that program, but I have all of those recipes printed out and many more added to it. Occasionally, Chuck will mention to someone that I "wrote a cookbook", like it was some big deal. They always end up asking for one and I have to explain that it's just my personal collection of recipes from friends and family.
The past few days I have been looking at different cook book software, trying to find a replacement so I can get all organized again, and found one I tried and liked= Incentive #1. A dear friend has just written a book and is about to have it published= Incentive #2 A couple of close friends have mentioned that they would love to have access to some of my recipe collection and I thought how they would really make great gifts= Incentive #3 And the last time I saw the one I made for Terri, it has been well used and could use freshening up=Incentive #4. So, I have decided to embark on this mission and hope that, if nothing else, I will come up with something that my friends and family will enjoy!
I'm excited and hope I can make it work! I have recipes that were my Great-Grandmother's, my Mom's (both of whom were amazing cooks). I have some of Terri's, Chuck's Grandmother and many from numerous friends. And along with the usual categories, I plan to add an Alaskan specific category. And mayhaps even a "Derby Girl" category! There will be foot notes about the friends and family, as well as some photos, I hope. I plan to put as many photos of the food items in that I can, as well.
So, if any of you dear ones would care to suggest any recipes or SEND me some of your favorites, I will 'test' them and add them to my book :) . My original was simply called "Family & Friends Recipes", s0 I will be thinking on a unique name for this as well. Any and all suggestions are most welcome!! So, send recipes, title ideas and so on. I will eagerly await your input!
Aside from the fact that my 6 hummingbird feeders are constantly surrounded and require refilling each day, not much else is happening. I may have to sneak off to Lowes and get a couple more feeders! They are so fun to have flitting around my front and back windows!
Years and years ago, I had found this awesome program {Kitchen Gourmet} that I could enter all of my recipes in. It had a great layout and made a nice presentation. One year for Christmas, I printed it all out, put it in sheet protectors and made a nice binder cover for it and presented it to Terri for a gift. Through the years and several computers and operating systems later, I can no longer use that program, but I have all of those recipes printed out and many more added to it. Occasionally, Chuck will mention to someone that I "wrote a cookbook", like it was some big deal. They always end up asking for one and I have to explain that it's just my personal collection of recipes from friends and family.
The past few days I have been looking at different cook book software, trying to find a replacement so I can get all organized again, and found one I tried and liked= Incentive #1. A dear friend has just written a book and is about to have it published= Incentive #2 A couple of close friends have mentioned that they would love to have access to some of my recipe collection and I thought how they would really make great gifts= Incentive #3 And the last time I saw the one I made for Terri, it has been well used and could use freshening up=Incentive #4. So, I have decided to embark on this mission and hope that, if nothing else, I will come up with something that my friends and family will enjoy!
I'm excited and hope I can make it work! I have recipes that were my Great-Grandmother's, my Mom's (both of whom were amazing cooks). I have some of Terri's, Chuck's Grandmother and many from numerous friends. And along with the usual categories, I plan to add an Alaskan specific category. And mayhaps even a "Derby Girl" category! There will be foot notes about the friends and family, as well as some photos, I hope. I plan to put as many photos of the food items in that I can, as well.
So, if any of you dear ones would care to suggest any recipes or SEND me some of your favorites, I will 'test' them and add them to my book :) . My original was simply called "Family & Friends Recipes", s0 I will be thinking on a unique name for this as well. Any and all suggestions are most welcome!! So, send recipes, title ideas and so on. I will eagerly await your input!
Aside from the fact that my 6 hummingbird feeders are constantly surrounded and require refilling each day, not much else is happening. I may have to sneak off to Lowes and get a couple more feeders! They are so fun to have flitting around my front and back windows!
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