Run, carrot, run!
I swear- I get more stuff done around here on the days that Candie comes than any other day of the week. Before she got here today I'd already done two loads of laundry, hung them outside, tidied up the bathroom and kitchen, picked greens and carrots in the garden, trimmed my baby tomato plants so that Mr. Moon could put more soil around them, and I don't know what all else.
Look at this.
I told Mr. Moon a little while ago, as I was cutting greens to cook, that I think maybe we should plant less kale next year. Y'all! I swear- I should be selling that stuff to restaurants. It's so beautiful. There are some collards and turnip greens in that bowl too and they're now stemmed and cut up and simmering away with onions and two of the turnips.
This is one of the varieties of kale I have growing and it's just so amazing to me. The veins in that sturdy leaf are one of those pragmatic miracles I do go on about.
Talk about sturdy.
Those two bamboo were coming up beside the steps to the swing porch and there was another one a few feet away. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO GET LAX ABOUT THE BAMBOO!
As the sprouting season goes on, the shoots get farther and farther from the bamboo jungle. I have found that stuff in the chicken coop. I've also found it growing under the old kitchen porch and under the old kitchen itself. I swear. Sometimes I worry that shit will just lift the house off the ground while we're asleep in our bed.
As the sprouting season goes on, the shoots get farther and farther from the bamboo jungle. I have found that stuff in the chicken coop. I've also found it growing under the old kitchen porch and under the old kitchen itself. I swear. Sometimes I worry that shit will just lift the house off the ground while we're asleep in our bed.
So let's see- what other fascinating things happened around here today?
I did more weeding and clearing out by the front fence. That was...fun?
I watered the porch plants and Mr. Moon blew the leaves off for me. Yes, he, too, has a leaf blower but he hardly ever uses it.
And that's about it. My house is clean and the front porch looks lovely and the roses are blooming like crazy. I picked some mulberries that I'll save to make August the pie I promised him when more ripen. The laundry is off the line and folded and put away. I'm making shrimp and grits for our supper to go with the greens.
I did more weeding and clearing out by the front fence. That was...fun?
I watered the porch plants and Mr. Moon blew the leaves off for me. Yes, he, too, has a leaf blower but he hardly ever uses it.
And that's about it. My house is clean and the front porch looks lovely and the roses are blooming like crazy. I picked some mulberries that I'll save to make August the pie I promised him when more ripen. The laundry is off the line and folded and put away. I'm making shrimp and grits for our supper to go with the greens.
I just realized that Mr. Moon brought back another Dog Island treasure and hung it on the porch. I hadn't even noticed it until just a few minutes ago!
Fish and pelicans.
I better go start those grits and peel those shrimp.
Love...Ms. Moon
No need for a spatter guard tonight!
ReplyDeleteNope!
DeleteWe never had luck with carrots here but they grow beautifully in other parts of Belize. Your washed harvest is a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteI think the sight of the just-picked washed vegetables gives me more joy than eating them.
DeleteYour produce is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI think so.
DeleteI love the pelican and fish. We have oodles of pelicans here. They are such a wonderful creature.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly get your vitamins and minerals with all your homegrown greens.
I love pelicans too. They are like dinosaur birds.
DeleteI'm sure we get a lot of good nutrients from these vegetables.
the garden does give doesn't it! All of that work and nurture pan out big time. Delish! The kale leaf is art- just fabulous, the structure , the color the vibrance. You just know that it is giving you super powers when ingested!
ReplyDeleteOne would think, right? Vegetable Woman!
DeleteYour garden produce is truly outstanding. There is nothing better than home grown veggies. Your shrimp meal sounds delicious. Mr. Moon brought home another great treasure and it looks terrific hanging on your porch.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad he brought it. I feel quite an affection for it.
DeleteI once ate shrooms and stared at that pelican for several hours.
ReplyDeleteI remember you telling me that! And that is what I will think of every time I look at it! You can have it when I die. Or become so demented I have no idea of my surroundings.
DeleteIf my life flashed before my eyes I'd probably see me in an armchair, reading.
ReplyDeleteAnd that ain't bad.
DeleteLove that cartoon - and ain't that the truth. My life flash would probably be sitting in a traffic jam!
ReplyDeleteThe time we waste on this earth doing the ridiculous things.
DeleteThat carrot would have sent me to the veg collection to create the entire body, and maybe friends. I’d heard that running bamboo could take over the world. What a headache, but at least you always have something to kick. I love the cartoon.
ReplyDeleteI am rather surprised that the earth isn't covered entirely by bamboo. I bet it would grow in the Arctic.
DeleteI believe we can all relate to the cartoon in one variation or another.
Interesting vegetables, all very cosy and affectionate.
ReplyDeleteThe pelican and his/her fish is delightful - must be good when the wind blows.
Bamboo was used in POW camps in torturous ways. Some varieties grow exceedingly quickly.
Yes. I like the way the little fishes dance about under the pelican in a breeze.
DeleteI've heard about that sort of torture. Mankind is an oxymoron.
Last week, on my day off, I did five loads of laundry. I'm at the airport right, waiting for my flight to Vancouver:)
ReplyDeleteAnd how many loads of laundry are you going to do for your daughter? Have a great time, darling.
DeleteThe kale is like a fantasy forest. Like other vegetables, chard, that kind, it seems to have the universe in its shape.
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteOh, that's a great mobile! I'm so glad Mr. Moon saved it! Your vegetables are so colorful. That cartoon cracks me up.
ReplyDeleteThe colors are swoony to me.
DeleteWhat would your life-before-your-eyes flash reveal? Shelving books? Hopefully not.
Oh my goodness, remembering the days of doing laundry when my 5 kids were little! Now it is pretty easy because I just do laundry for myself!
ReplyDeleteAnd did you wash cloth diapers? I did. Hundreds of thousands of them. I find it a joy to do laundry just for two.
Deletekale is not something I am interested in adding to my diet. except the last time we were in Colorado visiting friends she served a kale salad that was really good, small frilly leaves eaten raw. have no idea what variety. and I'm glad there's no bamboo on this property though I wouldn't mind a small stand of timber bamboo.
ReplyDeleteI love the pelican and fish! if you ever get tired of it, send it to me.
I wasn't that into kale either but over the years I've been growing it, I've learned to like it prepared in several ways. I do use it in salads and it's good. I just cut it very thinly.
DeleteI think Hank gets the pelican next. Did you read his comment above?
I went out to my garden this afternoon and my beans have popped up!!!! I was so excited I had to come tell you! haha
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm excited too! I betcha they're going to do great for you.
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