Our house decorated for Halloween! We had a great time enjoying the kids and their costumes. We heard several kids say, “Ooo that’s the witches house!” Our friends Marjorie, Kim and David joined us on the porch as Marjorie handed out candy and the kids got a little spooked! Marjorie’s excellent jack-o-lantern was a great touch and we were sure inspired for next year by it!
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- Frost damaged tomato plants
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- Yummy Radishes!
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- Yummy Radishes!
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- Yummy Radishes!
Our second crop of radishes are growing in. The tomatoes were lost after two frost events, that dipped temps to the 20’s during the night. We were hoping that we’d get another nice crop out of the tomato plants as they had come back to be nice and full and thick with leaves and blossoms. Unfortunately, the cold weather set in too fast! Rowdy was able to capture a few of the tomatoes that had grown and they are now ripening in the kitchen window.
In the meantime, new radishes and beans are growing as well as some romaine lettuce. We’ve already started eating the lettuce and the radishes… and Olive is pretty sure that the garden makes a really great salad bar. We thought it was funny when she ate some swiss chard, but now she’s nipping the tops of the radishes off and eating the greens!
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- New friends?
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- THAT is a BIG dog!
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- Throw the frisbee! Throw the frisbee!!
What better way to burn off some puppy energy, than to go to the dog park and chase a frisbee! Not to forget all the important canine socializing that goes on there too. Mind you, we certainly don’t appreciate the mean doggies that shouldn’t be in there, but we keep a close eye on our Olive and Bell!
At the dog park the canine units show up in all shapes, sizes and colors. Some are as big as the kids that come to play with their dogs too!
I had looked at 4 or 5 recipes before figuring out what I was going to do. Options are varied and include going with a more “nutty” flavor or more on the “Indian” side — using cream instead of coconut milk, nutmeg and other spices. I made this without following any particular recipe but rather just from a sense of what I wanted to taste, based on what I was reading. I highly recommend this combination!
Our friend Robbie Saslow, made a soup once, that tasted somewhat like this and my eyes nearly rolled back in my head and stuck at that time. I’m not certain if Robbie uses this same combination, but he very well may. I’ll have to check with him on this.
Homemade Yogurt!
Drying herbs and veggies is surely handy and useful. Rowdy has found another very wonderful, tasty, and healthy snack to make with the new Excalibur dehydrator that we now have. Yogurt! We’ve been eating homemade yogurt, practically every day! SO good and so good for you too!
There’s something quite wonderful about a nice garden walkway. Using more of the reclaimed bricks from the yard, Rowdy constructed a new garden pathway. Raised above the graveled dirt base, the brick path adds character and function to the garden’s walkway.
For ramming into other canine friends, your human friends (be sure to leave nice bruises on their legs), for scooping up different things and for holding onto your favorite dog toy. In this case, your stuffed turtle.
“Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern,
You are such a funny sight.
As you sit there by the window,
Looking out into the night.
You were once a sturdy pumpkin,
growing on a curly vine.
Now you are a Jack-o-lantern,
See your night lights shine.”
Spooky, frightful schemes we brew – hair raising and sweet too!
Schemes are definitely afoot, here on Berrycreek Ct. We’ll spook those kiddies and town’s folk alike! Muwhaaaa haaaa!!
The night before last, we happily tried out one-half of the hubbard squash we brought in for cooking. See my last post. Last night, Rowdy found another recipe to use the squash in. Cooking the squash and chicken separately, and then adding the squash to Ms. Cubbison’s cornbread stuffing mix already prepared with onion and celery, the ingredients were combined in the casserole dish. Stir in some cream of mushroom soup, with an added dash of fresh thyme and oregano and bake. This is some very nice, comfort food! Warms a belly up very nicely!
When it was growing, it grew vines across the veggie garden, up the wall of the house, and was coming into the bathroom window when we redirected it. From that crazy overgrown plant, to larger than basketball sized squash… what the heck were we gonna do with these things?!
Last night, Rowdy took the smallest one, and we tried it out. Baked in the oven with butter and brown sugar, served on the side of our yummy organic beef stew… SO good!!!
Both the stew and the squash was cooked in our super-wonderful casserole dish. See it here.
