1st Day

We made it from Long Beach to Deerlodge, MT. It was about 700 miles. We left Long Beach at 4:30 am and arrived in Deerlodge at 7:30pm. Unfortunately the fuel tank on the bus is small, so we had to stop for fuel 6 times. The route we took had us climbing MANY steep mountain passes. We stayed the night at a truck stop and got to try out our generator. It worked great we were able to run the refrigerator, tv, and air conditioner. Everyone slept well. Next stop is Yellowstone Canyon Ville Campground.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Neglected

We explored neglected buildings in the ghost town of Bodie, WA. 

 

Signs of Spring 

Spring flowers ready to bloom.

 

Last Thing you Bought

I just bought a canvas print of this picture. It turned out beautiful. 

 

 Shadow

I like the play of shadows from clouds on land.

 

Four Things

Four things I love, my husband, my daughter, my son and old buildings.

 

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Monkeys and Lions Mmmmm!

My daughter and I like to have fun with cupcakes. Here are the homemade cupcakes we made for my nephew's second birthday.

 

Miss B showing off our handy work.

Lions-Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese frosting. The mane is Carmel corn, whiskers are pretzels, and the ears are Cheerios. 

Monkeys-Vanilla Cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting. The ears are Junior Mints and white of the eyes are mini marshmallows. The eyes and mouth on both is melted chocolate chips.

 

 

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Random Rambling for a Country Girl

1. If red sky at night means sailors delight, what does orange sky mean?

2. Planting Dill and Thyme in your garden will help deter cabbage  moths. Basil deters aphids and Nasturtiums deter squash beetles and aphids.

3. Homemade dill relish is soooo good and easy to make.

4. Fall is my favorite season. The only thing I can't stand is walking through spider webs!

 

5. We have used electric heat, gas stove, pellet stove and wood stove. Wood heat is the only way to go for me.

 

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Growing your own Garlic

Last year was my first experience growing garlic. It is fairly easy to grow. I bought 4 bulbs of German White  Hardneck garlic from a local guy. He told me to plant it with fish bone meal, then top with dirt and chicken manure. And plant it in October. So that is what I did.

 

Here is half of the garlic I harvested in July.

These are the things I learned.
1. Hardneck garlic grow a scape. When the scape is curled, cut it off. This is so the plant puts energy into growing the garlic bulb and not a flower.

2. The scape are delicious, I found many recipes on the web to use them in.

3. When I planted the garlic I just dug a little hole and planted a clove. Well some of the soil was looser in some areas then others. The garlic that was planted in the looser soil was bigger and easier to dig at harvest time.

This weekend I planted my garlic again, but this time the garlic cloves came from the bulbs I harvested.

What I did differently:
 I put a layer of chicken manure with hay, then a layer of leaves.

Then my son helped me add a layer of top soil and bone meal.

Last I planted my garlic cloves.

These are the garlic bulbs I got the cloves from.

 

I hope this process will produce bigger bulbs and easy to dig garlic.

 

 

Do you grow your own garlic, if so what kind?



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Example of Autumn

Weekly Top Shot

 
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Weekly Top Shot

It looks like someone needs a hug.

 

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