Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for little things that all add up…
*for my husband, who is not grumpy that the couch in our home office is piled high with fabrics, and the floor of said office is covered with more fabrics in various stages of sewn-togetherness… and oh yeah, the dining area is also being taken over by [...]

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Tomato lovelies

I just love tomatoes.  And I’m pretty excited that our plants are finally starting to give us beautiful, ripe tomatoes.  So I’m just going to post some photos– because I think the tomatoes are so pretty!
reddening on the vine
 
our first tomato harvest
 
a colorful harvest
 
Husband and I bought some fresh mozzarella and last night for dinner [...]

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Friday version of Thankful Thursday

I got my appointment letter from the department this week, and it said that I have a research assistantship for the fall– AND the spring!!  I wasn’t expecting to have an RA for the spring (and was really dreading having to teach while trying to hopefully finish a dissertation and defend)… so this was a [...]

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Tasty strawberries

Our strawberries have been faring much better this round of blossoms, as I think I’ve mentioned in previous posts.

They are about twice the size, at least, of the first strawberries we were getting, and they taste sweet!  Unfortunately, Husband and I are apparently not the only ones who think they taste good…

The plants in the [...]

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Thankful

I am so thankful this week for an encouraging email that I received.  It has been a really hard week for me, and it was really good to receive this email from a person who rarely encourages.
I am thankful for the way God answered one of my husband and my prayers so quickly and obviously.
I [...]

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Yuck.

Well, we cut our last cucumber last night.  It may have had some time left on the vine still, but it needed to get cut…  The second (and last) cucumber plant contracted something nasty…  I’m pretty sure that it had powdery mildew* and then last night I noticed something else:

I have *no idea* what this [...]

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New addition: basil!

We have a new addition to our garden– two lovely basil plants from J & C!!  

I am very excited about this and am planning all kinds of recipes that call for fresh basil, especially now that tomatoes are imminent…  Caprese salad…  tomato pie…  fresh tomato sauce…  yummmmmmmmm!
 
Thanks, J & C!!!

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