A quick breakfast, Raisin Cinnamon biscuits with a glaze, we
actually made these fresh yesterday.( sorry the picture is blurry)

Our first harvest of Rhubarb. I think we'll be seeing pie

or crisp in the next few days. Beyond laundry, light weeding,

and watering we'll be cutting up and preserving this bounty, today!

A shot to give an idea of where all the garden plots are

situated. The plot in front of the shed has, garlic, walking onions

parsnips, lettuce, spinach, kale, mustard, and beets. You can see

three walls of water, those are extra tomato plants and that is

a strip approx. 3-4 ft wide and 100 ft long. The zucchini, squash

and mangle beets are planted in this plot.( you can click on photo to

see a large version)

This is a little galvanized bucket Mike brought home from work

a few yrs back and of course it fit right on top of an old rust milk can

so we filled it with soil and plant flowers in it. This season we put

wild flower seeds in it and they all look to have germinated, it's packed

I'm going to have thin it a bit * wink*

This is our Painted Mountain corn from last season. It hangs

in our front porch area that we have set up for hanging herbs.

This corn is not only pretty but very high in protein for grinding

into cornmeal.

Speaking of herbs, we'll be harvesting and drying; Greek Oregano,

Russian Tarragon, Comfrey, Wormwood, Peppermint, Chocolate mint,

Sage and Chamomile late this week or early next, before they go

to seed. We typically harvest( on a good year, when we have the time)

two or three times.

Our weekend was pretty laid back. We took lilacs into the city to

place on Mike's grandparents grave on Sunday.

Sadly again this year ours were the only flowers on their grave or

on his Great Aunt Leona's grave.

It's not that we only remember them on this weekend, but we do feel

led to honor their memory by cleaning around the headstones and

placing a few flowers. My Dad had gone in on Saturday to place

flowers on his Dad's, an Uncles and his Grandparents graves.

Usually we have irises and sometime day lilies but this year they

are a bit behind, and lilacs were about all we had readily available.