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Monday, July 26, 2010
SOPHIA’S BED, AND LAURA’S WARDROBE
Too much work to organize a lot of photography of the building process, and most folks wouldn’t care, in any case. If you want details, just write me an e-mail and ask…..
I’ve made beds for my kids through the years, plus bookcases, closet “built-ins”, and so on. Laura remembered, and asked for an elevated bed for Sophia - it makes her room so much easier to use, particularly with the trampoline in there…...
Here’s the bed:
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PICKLES
It never occurred to me that I would make pickles before the end of August or later—my own pickling cukes are not going to be ready until then (if at all), and it occurred to me that I might find affordable cucumbers of the correct size by that time…..
However, this week I saw the Safeway sale circular and they had English Cucumbers (regularly $1.99 each) at 2 for $1.00….. These are the big long (burpless) cucumbers with a very small see cavity and NEVER any bitterness. Yes, they’re greenhouse grown, but I’m not going to let petty prejudices get in the way of pickles! Plus, Fred Meyer had big bunches of fresh dill—whole plants, including roots, stretching to three feet or more. That was probably the biggest job of the evening - cutting off the flowers and freshest “ferns” from the giant stems.
Anyway, here’s part of the result:
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GARDENING IN BEND, OREGON - UPDATED (AGAIN)
Before we moved to Bend, my brother checked the Web, and informed me that the growing season here was about two weeks, and I could expect to grow LOTS of kale!!
While that may not be strictly true, it IS a fact that over the last couple of decades, Bend has had a frost on every night of the year save a couple of random dates in August…so this is a challenging environment.
Nevertheless, people DO garden in Bend, and I was determined to join them. And not solely with flowers…...lovely as they are.
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Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela