Thankful Thursday

It’s been a bit of a frustrating week, so I think that this is an expecially good “exercise” for me.
Thank You, God, for:
*A new recipe for yummy potatoes (unrelated to the produce from our garden, though). Now I have to contrive a meal to go with them so I can have an [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful that my cucumber plants seem to be coming back to life… There are a couple cucumbers growing well.
I’m thankful for the fun times I’ve been able to have with friends this week. I’m also thankful for the renewing of a couple of old friendships, and for the beginning of some new [...]

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Tomato yummies

On Friday evening, we had friends of ours from church over for dinner. I wanted to incorporate garden produce into the meal, so my husband and I decided to make a tomato-mozzarella salad. You know, one of those perfect dishes to savor the flavor (hey, that rhymes! i bet some advertiser has [...]

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Cucumber vines chopped

On Saturday, I went out onto the balcony and gave my cucumbers a closer look. I’m still suspicious that the pot is too full of vines. I started trimming off all the dead-looking leaves and the shrivelling baby cucumbers, and in the process noticed that I could easily trace two of my vines [...]

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Thankful Thursday (Friday edition)

I’m thankful that I just found out yesterday that I was awarded a GAANN Fellowship through my physics department. I will be taking a reading seminar on research in physics education as well as acting as a mentor TA for the class I have taught a number of semesters in the past. In [...]

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Droopy peppers and sad cucumbers

For the most part, I’d say that my container garden is still successfully growing. The tomatoes just keep coming– and I’m definitely not complaining about that! MMMMMM home-grown tomatoes…. you can’t get much better than that.
In my last post I mentioned that my pepper plants were all bendy. They seem to be [...]

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It’s been a long time….

So it’s time for an update!
My husband and I were in Corsica for two weeks, which is part of the reason there have been no updates on this blog for a good long while. The other part of the reason is that I have been very busy with research (partly due to the fact [...]

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