June 29, 2013
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Sweet Saturday Morning
It is at least 10 degrees cooler than “usual” this morning. Sorry to all those west and south of us who are breaking heat records. I got up and headed to the farmer’s market first thing this morning. Found some nice looking homegrown tomatoes & bought a couple for eating; also got cucumbers to make some dill pickles, and a cabbage. I hope to find my mom’s stuffed cabbage recipe for either supper tonight or tomorrow. I’d have gotten more tomatoes and made some salsa, but they are still a bit pricey–$2/lb. And eventually I will have my own.
We had a lot of fun playing Mexican Train with the Edwards & Delano families. Got to catch up on everyone’s coming and going. In spite of frustrations at the unfairness of the game at times, no dominoes were thrown.
Steamed artchokes from the garden and gazpacho for lunch.
The finished mailbox and house numbers project. Now that it is done, I should have done less green background and more flowers on the mailbox. I put the numbers higher because I didn’t want the lid hitting them when it was opened. Unfortunately it would look better if the numbers were a bit lower. Much was learned with this project.
