Babies

We have a nursery!  I am so excited to have a swallow family living on our front porch. The parents had been nest building for a couple of weeks and I held my husband' s phone up there this morning to snap this photo.
Yay!

Garden update

I'm getting a lot of squash right now, but the cukes and watermelon have a ton of blossoms! I am thrilled and already planning on expanding.

It's a Date

Keeping up With the Neighbors

My garden, as you know, is doing well. So well, in fact that I was able to enjoy a straight neck squash and share one with Roberto, my neighbor.
That's the amazing thing about a garden, you get to share and share and share. A thing that I think we forget too easily. But I am determined that while my family won't go hungry, neither will my neighbors.

Mobile Garden

I have left Jerry Jones and have ditched my flip phone for a new smartphone.  I'm overwhelmed but really enjoying being able to blog on the fly. (And post garden photos! I hope.)
Texas has been experiencing a rainy season the last week or so and I am loving it! Everything is growing like mad and my rain barrel is overflowing. My garden heart is happy.

Squash

In visiting the garden this morning, I discovered a couple of baby squash!  I am so happy!  At least, for a moment.  Then I was a little dismayed to remember that I didn't have a whole ton of squash recipes!

 Squash soup, check. 

Ratatouille, yep.

Squash in butter, a given.

And there's where I end.  Now, given that I have four more of these plants, I could be in serious trouble in a few weeks.  So I am now combing Pinterest and the internet for things to do with squash.  Some of them are pretty cool. 

I'll post what works and gloss over what doesn't.  LOL

More Baking?

Today was uncommonly busy.  Meaning, we didn't have a ton of people in the hospital where I work, but we were swamped!  I couldn't believe it. 
On top of that, my boss called me in to the office and said that I need to do more baking because people were telling him I need to do more baking.  At first I was pissed.  Mainly because I felt that I was already working my ass off and now they were bitching.  But, after my walk tonight, I had to laugh.  "They want me to bake!"  Is that a cosmic joke?
 In any case, I got the hint and I'm going to bake like mad. 

Happily, my garden is growing and growing and growing!   The tomatoes have little yellow blossoms, as do the squash and the bean that The Youngest brought home is taking off up the trellis we installed for all the beans.  (I have no clue as to what it is.  I know it's not a Blue Lake, but it's definitely a climber.)
I'm loving this Texas weather. 

Has anyone read 'Eating on the Wild Side'?  It looks really interesting, but I'd like a gardener's recommendation.