A cheesy confession

It’s likely that nobody remembers my bold proclamation in mid-September about how I was going to start making cheese.  I got this book from the library.  I read the first four pages of it, at least.
But I never got around to picking up ingredients to make any of the cheese recipes.  Then one day it [...]

Garden update (the dead and dying edition)

September is here.  The end is near.  A little over a week ago it started getting down into the low 50s every single night.  Fall has arrived, a bit early, and after a very cool summer.  Let’s assess the damage, and note the encroaching zucchini in nearly every picture:
My attempt at late-season beets gets a [...]

Garden update, mid-August(!) edition

This happens every year.  OK this is really only my second year with a real garden but it happened last year too.  I get to mid-August, and I walk past the garden, and I see 2 ft tall weeds, and I think “meh.”  My sense of urgency is completely gone.  Except I do still have [...]

Corn down

We had some straight-line winds this afternoon that took down my 3 cute little stalks of corn.  Such a bummer, not necessarily because we lost the three cobs of corn that we would have gotten, but because my precious pole beans lost their support structure.  Here’s the damage:

I am still holding out hope that it [...]

Ginger beer: FAIL

You win some; you lose some.  Our ginger beer recipe resulted in vat of very delicious-smelling but decidedly not delicious-looking ginger beer:

Yes, that’s mold.  So this was a good $5 worth of ginger and sugar, down the drain (well, into the compost pile, anyway).  I am not going to give up though; if I can [...]