What's going on at Chez Sluys:
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| Pickled beans from the garden and pickled asparagus with jalepenos, garlic, and red pepper flakes |
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| Who says you can't get something for nothing? Blackberry jam/pie filling from berries growing in the wild by our house. No effort on my part to keep 'em alive. |
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| A new recipe, Chunky Chipotle-Peach Spread. So unbelievably delish. Like, I actually licked the leftovers out of the pan, for real. | |
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| That there pickling cucumber should make some good pickles |
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I'm gonna throw some beauty bark in there. I finally planted husband planted the area above the rock wall: Lavender, landscape roses, azaela and rhodie, rose of sharon, boxwood, and mini-spruce thing. Who was I kidding? I laid out all the plants where I wanted them, and husband dug some holes. A LOT of holes. I still owe him "wifely duties" for that one |
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| The garden looks much better with grass in it |
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| Still can't believe husband moved all those rocks (and a lot more in back too) by hand. Whatta stud. |
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| Who says you can't make a gingerbread house in August? |
| A lot of canning has been going on. 'Tis the season after all. You can share the goodness with me, 'cuz if you know me, you probably will be getting a lot of my canned goodies to share. I like to spread the love. My ladies are laying fairly consistently now, usually 2 eggs per day, but then they went on a strike and laid only 1 per day for a couple of days (1 egg for the 4 hens). Such slackers. I fed them some popcorn and weeds, and they showed their appreciation by laying 4 eggs the last 2 days. My hens don't have a name- I can't tell them apart- but I did finally name my rooster: Juan Pablo. 'Cuz he is Spanish (Araucana). Miss Aili is starting preschool next week, can you believe it? Sigh. My big girl. Welllll husband's not home, so on that note, I think I'll go grab my iphone and do a little booty-shakin.' Because when husband is away, the Sluys girls like to dance. That's just how we roll ;-) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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4 comments:
This look seriously awesome! Awesome home-maker action going on! I'm jealous. :)
You are the Locavore-Homemaker-Champion-of-The-world. And Juan Pablo is quite the stud. How are you keeping your eggs from turning into chicks with him around?!
-Lisa
They probably would turn into chicks if we let them! Juan Pablo likes to, ahem, have his way with the ladies.
Looking good!!!! It's such a great change. I never thought your yard looked bad, but it looks amazing now!!! Good job. Your hard work really shows. And the canned goods look amazing. I've only ever made Blackberry jam, so that's impressive.
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