Tried something last week. I dried some of my lemon balm for tea. I let it hang for about a week and it crumbled and smelled just like loose tea leaves I might buy at the store. It also makes a good cup of tea. Added a little honey and even the kids wanted some.
(365 day 71 photo) Ok, it’s been about 15 days since I went shampoo-free. I’m using boar’s bristle brushes to comb out my hair in sections each day and massaging…
Just little bits left to summer’s mystery garden. I never know what will work and what won’t. I may even get stuff I didn’t plant. I still have bell peppers-…
… because I finished my Beatnik sweater and it is pretty cool, though I wasn’t at all the nonconformist the name suggests when knitting it. Yep, I actually stuck with…
I finally did a thing that I always equated with little old ladies knitting when I was a child. I made mittens. They’re the Linden Mittens by Jane Richmond. I…
Had that cabbage in the garden so I thought I’d try an old fashioned sounding recipe from this book: Corned Beef and Cabbage. I could tell my son was grossed…
Garden Snippets: onion, ponytail palm, sage, hollyhocks, and grapevine. (day 83) (day 87) (day 88) (day 74) I like to get up close for pictures- it makes my midget garden…
