Aug 19-20

Just a question...

Who made my kitchen so small?

Natasha, bless her fingertips, helped me can 40lbs of tomatoes AND pick blackberries (though not any for me) on thursday.

And so we canned 11 quarts of tomatoes, 6-250s of classic ketchup, a lot of blackberry syrup and a lot of tomato sauce, I also have a couple pounds of tomatoes dehydrating as I type.

Today I slow roasted some tomatoes in olive oil. I thought that a nice crusty french loaf would go great with it, but the store had none so I made my own. It tastes great and the texture is wonderful. I just need a baguette pan and it would be perfect. With some goat cheese my dinner was amazing.

Bowen, a mini vacation

Bowen, a mini vacation

Shane and I, having missed our planned vacation to the interior decided to take a two nights in Bowen Island, not to far from here at all.

It was a beautiful island, with loads of good food and a cute little cove where we watched a movie under the stars.

The pups loved the cabin we picked

Just a little note here....BUTTER WAS OFF LEASH FOR 10 MINUTES!

Aug 12

\

Omg! How does it happen??? Now it's the 20th and I have to blog for a weeks worth of happenings!

I mean to do better. honestly.

This was Aug 12, a fine day.

I dried some cherries, at 1 hour and at 30 hours.

During that time Butter and I took some pictures.

Shane and I went for a walk

And we went stupid cat hunting.

stay tuned...

Excuse my absence please. I've been a little under the weather. Here's what we've been doing,

Eating these horrible things. Delicious and hard to resist

We bought this pretty thing.

I made a yummy breakfast on our morning off

Obsessing over some almost ripe tomatoes

Keeping an eye on these very close to ready blackberries

And loving walks through this park

Garden Update Aug 6

My first eggplant flower

The rainbow chard is doing well

These are the snowpeas I sewed just a week ago

My pepper's are not doing well this year (or last)

This is one of my only flowers

Two squash plants competing

Plenty of tomatoes so far

I believe these are my brussel sprouts

And these are my parsnips

Broccoli in the side bed

Leeks out front

Mint