Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for an absolutely wonderful two years and two days with my fabulous husband!  We had a fantastic anniversary dinner up in Chicago at a little place called Sweets & Savories.  Monday night is the chef’s tasting menu special, and we ended up having 9 fantastic courses…  (I *did* end up taking a couple [...]

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Presenting… the polka-dot dress!

I have finally finished the polka-dot dress!  It took me a ridiculous amount of time to finish it, but it’s complete!  Around home it gained the affectionate epithet “that stupid polka-dot dress” because it was always around staring at me, waiting to be worked on.  I finished it on the 23rd (it took me almost [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I am *so very thankful* that my paper has been resubmitted (again)!!  This is the third submission, and although it took only 3 weeks to get it back to the journal, it was probably the most stressful part of the paper so far.  Hopefully there won’t be too much more to go through with this [...]

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Mildewy death?

So sad.  
One pot of cucumber plants has all but died.  Last Saturday I noticed that it really was starting to look squiffy…  

…but I was hoping that it would perk back up again.  No such luck.  I think I’m giving it up for lost after seeing it this morning:

I’m thinking that the culprit may [...]

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Nine-inch cucumber

I thought that this beauty deserved its own post!

This is, I think, the best-looking cucumber I’ve ever had so far gardening on my balcony.  I cut it on Sunday:

I hope it’s as yummy as it looks!

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Time for a photo-update

The garden is completely exploding with foliage.  

I can’t believe how big the tomato plants are (righthand side of the above photo)– especially considering I was so worried about them surviving when I first transplanted them this spring! 
What is puzzling to me (though not unwelcome!) is that the peas have started producing again!  

At the [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful that we got to use our master-bathroom shower this morning for the first time since the glass doors broke! It’s not a huge thing to have to use the other bathroom, but it’s awfully nice to have our own bathroom again. It’s been about 2 months with the bathtub looking approximately [...]

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Things to do with parsley when you don’t have basil

I am so blessed to have a husband who is an excellent cook.  Tonight he made us a wonderful recipe that he slightly modified from a Taste of Home’s Prize Winning Recipes book (2006) my mom gave us.  The original recipe calls for basil, but alas, we decided not to grow basil in our garden [...]

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Garden produce

Let me just say, I love cucumber.  So I was pretty excited on Friday when we had a cucumber big enough to cut and eat on our salads at dinner.  It was pretty short, but I didn’t want to let it get much fatter.  
We also had a strawberry!!  This one was about twice as [...]

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Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for beautiful weather outside (a bit hot sometimes, but beautiful nonetheless)
I’m thankful for the continuing motivation to work out 
I’m thankful for tomatoes and cucumbers and new strawberries growing in my garden
I’m thankful for lightning-fast (in the refereed-journal world) comments from the referee on my paper
I’m thankful for the support my husband, family, and [...]

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