Farmer's Market

Every Saturday, April through October our city/town has a farmer's market downtown. Since we live in walking distance of downtown I like to go to the farmer's market to check out what the different venders have. There are always fresh vegetables, flowers, and fresh baked goods.
This week I bought a zucchini, some French bread, and a cinnamon roll (that wasn't nearly as good as the ones my mom makes). Each vender you spend $3 at give you a ticket that you write your name and a phone number on for the weekly basket drawing. My mom and mother in law have already won this year and I decided today was the day I would win. And guess what, I DID!!
I got kettle corn, spinach, romaine, zucchini, two bags of microwaveable hull-less popcorn, homemade eggs noodles, body butter, barbecue seasoning, braided bread, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, snicker doodle cookies, giant iced sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, and 4 honey straws!
Overall a good day at the famers market.

A thought on knitting

This past weekend L and I went to a reenactment in Michigan. While there I was chatting with a woman who was knitting a scarf. When she learned that I had taught myself to knit without a teacher she was impressed, especially when she found out I made mittens first. When I started knitting I wanted to make something useful. As I'm sure I mentioned before, I didn't want or need a scarf, I wanted mittens!! Anyway, the lady knitting showed me how she was doing cabling. It looks like something I want to try next. Maybe in a few months you will see a knitted project with cabling. It will all depend on how many other projects get in the way.

Garden Update

I just read my last update and it was quite terrible. I guess that's what I get for writing a post and not finishing in the same day or even week. 


Here's an update on my garden:
-The peppers I started from seed in February/March were planted in the ground and then shriveled up and wilted from the heat.
-My mom so graciously bought me some pepper plants to replace the ones that died. (I've decided to never plant from seed again on peppers)
   -I have a chocolate pepper plant, California wonder peppers, and orange pepper plant, and some yellow pepper plants
   -There are quite a few blossom, one pepper an inch or 2 long, and a few tiny tiny peppers
-I had to replant my green bean row because none of the beans came up, but now they are thriving
-I replanted my carrot row, we'll see if they come up too
-The tomatoes are doing fantastic! They must really like the type of soil we have!!! They are starting to get blossoms and maybe some tiny tiny tomatoes
-The sweet corn I planted is barely coming up, so that may be a flop this year too
-zucchini and summer squash are popping up!
-Some of the onions are thriving, others have died, but that's fine.

 Tomatoes and peppers

Everything else!

Garden Disaster!!

It happen!!!! The first of my garden disasters!! Remember those pepper plants I love so dearly? DEAD, every single one of them!!! I think I've given up on starting pepper plants from seed!!
Last week I purchased quite a few pepper plants to feed our pepper need. So far they are faring very well!

As for the rest of my garden, we finally got it tilled and mostly planted. A few things have come up, and others I've had to replant due to the hot hot hot weather we had a few weeks back.

I am a negligent blogger who left her camera at her parent's house, so no pictures of the garden right now.