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Showing posts with label young heifer Liesel. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

It's harvest time



 There is enough produce growing in my garden to challenge the weeds.



Peaches are almost ripe.





This is how we harvest beans...
we pull out the entire plant and pull the beans while sitting in the shade.  





Enough beans to last all winter. 






You do know how beans grow.






We pulled the first onions at the same time.
The rest will have to grow some more.  









A family portrait, the Farmer, his dog and the photographer.  






Onions drying on the wall. 

(Look how clever is Mr G.  He places plastic wrap into the sieve first to form Pesto packets).





Liesel has been pampered.  The rest of the Farmers are shaking their heads.  They all say that she should be with the rest of the herd by now.  In the meantime I'm still bottle feeding her 4 times a day

Liesel likes to spend time under an old apricot tree.  Hope she does not get sick from eating apricots and their pits.





Will her Father recognize her when she is put with the rest of the herd?  I know that her Mother won't care, she is the one who abandoned my little charge.  

I will be like a mother duck who watches her ducklings going for their first swim.  


Hope your week goes swimmingly. 

Gina 



Saturday, July 30, 2016

Summer



And all the fun and work that comes with it.



My new Tayberry bush is doing well.  This luscious fruit needs a special accompaniment






A Sabayon or if in Italy, a Zabaglione is the perfect answer. 
Recipe here






You will need a double boiler and a tireless arm. 






My Basil is perfect for picking and perfect for making Pesto.






It will go to seed in a few days. Must stock up on Pine Nuts and the very best olive oil I can find.






Apricots are ripe, ready for preserves.







Now this is the variety of Opium Poppy I don't like.  
I like simple flowers. 
When these poppies first opened I started to pull some of them out.





But then thought better of it. 







If I had pulled them all I would have missed these Beauties. 






I'm still bottle feeding Liesel.  







Sunflowers are volunteering in the Squash Patch.







Ronde de Nice or Rolly Pollies are ready.
They are the very best Summer Squash. 







And I have been painting a lot of tiles for new kitchens.  


It's another beautiful day here.  
Hope you are enjoying summer.  

Gina