August 28, 2014
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Gardening
I am not a gardener. I grew up in the city with a teeny tiny yard. We had a garden in Africa, but we also had a gardener to take care of it. My friend, Faye , is a gardener extraordinaire. Here are some of her flowers.
She also has a large vegetable garden, well not as large as it used to be. Her children now are grown and have their own families, and she travels a lot with her husband. She grows or has grown potatoes, lettuce, green beans, tomatoes, okra, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, corn, cucmbers, etc. She also shares her produce with family and friends. If you want a zucchini she's the one to ask. She'll probably give you 3 or more. If you ask she'll even give you a loaf or 2 of froaen zucchini bread. Garrison Keillor once wrote that zucchini is so plentiful in the Midwest that people sneak around at night and leave it on their neighbors' porches. She also makes a delicious zucchini chocolate cake. Speaking of cake, I used a cake mix and baked a cake tonight. I frosted it with old fashioned powdered sugar frosting. I just ate 2 small pieces.
Which reminds me, I got my partial today. It has 3 teeth on it, but it stretches almost all the way across my mouth. So far it doesn't hurt and I haven't bitten myself so that's good. I need to go take it out now, and brush it and my teeth. I'm sure chocolate cake crumbs can't be good for it. Ah, the joys of becoming........shall we say........more mature?
Comments (9)
Sorry, no zucchini for me!! Lovely flowers...
Have you ever had lemon-zucchini bread with lemon frosting. Yummm! It's more like cake than bread. Maybe you would do like the kids do? Throw away the bread-cake part and just eat the frosting?
A lovely garden -- I had to laugh at your last paragraph -- I went to the dermatologist today, but when I got up this morning I realized that I had a sunburned face from yesterday's wave-watching! Oops!
My mother is light-skinned, and grew up in Calif. then moved to Fla. I take her to the dermatologist regularly. I inherited my dad's Armenian olive skin. So far I haven't had any problems.
I love squash in all kinds of ways. Last week one of my extra boys saw a zucchini laying on the counter and sliced it up thinking it was a cucumber. He got a surprise.
Love the flowers.
Yes, the old age kind of changes are a little 'joyful' sometimes.
Hope your week-end is great!
Zucchinis and cukes do look similar sometimes.
Nice flowers.....And her garden!! Sounds just like ours used to be, when we lived on the acreage.....We grew the same things....
Cake crumbs are just fine for your partial plates, lol!! Enjoy the weekend!
I am no gardner either, but I keep trying.
I loved it when my son kept a garden and I could walk out and pick my own fresh, free of chemicals, zucchini, cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatos, and yellow squash for dinner.
I bet the flowers are zinnias and sun flowers .
Go , the gardeners !!
Love
Michel