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Thankful Thursday

Posted in Thankful Thursdays on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Thankful Thursdays on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in recipes, tomatoes on August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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

Posted in cucumbers, pollination on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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)

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, not about gardening on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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

Posted in cucumbers, peppers, pollination, sun, tomatoes on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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….

Posted in Thankful Thursdays, cucumbers, fertilizing, peppers, pollination, tomatoes on August 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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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