A Stormy Day

 

This picture says it all today. As this storm comes ashore, the wind rushes to meet it so the wind is roaring in the trees sounding like the surf of the ocean. The wind chimes are not singing today but banging in a discordant clanking sound. The tumbleweeds are blowing across the field in front of the house like trolls stumping along to guard the bridge. I always think of that while I stand at the window and watch them rolling and bumping along. Praying the really giant ones don't jump the fence to come live in my yard.

We have a lone avocado tree in our yard.  This year it had one avocado. We watched it and with the freezing temps we were having we decided to pick it. It was still hard as a rock. The other day I checked it and it was perfectly ripe.

I am almost tempted to get bees just so we could have a whole tree with these lovely fruit.
I just wish they got ripe the same time as the tomatoes.

 

This is some of the picking of citrus. I picked blood oranges from a tree I haven't even started picking yet. The oranges are quite a bit bigger than the other tree. Today I am going to make some Starbucks pound cake. I decided that I will make that for Bible Study in the morning.  See my seed potatoes sitting in the back? I need to get them in the ground but we keep having storms and the ground it too wet.

 

I made some lemon syrup for my tea the other day. I am juicing and freezing juice to try and get the trees emptied. I am running out of ideas.

Some times my bright ideas don't turn out. I thought I would love to have fresh nettle tea. This time of year I have nettle growing every where. So I went out yesterday and picked this huge bunch of it.
I wore my gardening gloves when I was picking it. But, I being a hardhead. I thought I was stronger than nettle so I didn't go get gloves. I thought I could make myself believe that pain was just a state of mind. Duh, it isn't. My hands are still messed up. They looked last night like I had put them in boiling water. I got the nettle cut up and I put them in the food dryer. After the nettle dried I bagged it up. I tried to make tea with it but it was so yucky. I threw the whole bag in the trash. Next time I want nettle tea, I will buy it. Not to mention what a mess. I guess I am not Euell Gibbons.

I got my Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Catalog yesterday.
What a lovely catalog. I would love to order every single seed they have.

That picture on the cover, that flower is Buckweet. Isn't that pretty? I thought it was gorgeous.

I just wanted to stop by and say hi.

I wish you the best,
~Kim~

"His Father left in a desperate search for work. The food supply diminished until all that was left was a few pinto beans and a single egg, which no one would eat. Euell then a teen aged and one of four children, took a nap sack one morning and left for the Horizon mountains. He came back with puff ball mushrooms, pinion nuts, and fruit of yellow prickly pear. For nearly a month, the family lived wholly on what he provided." Anonymous, on Euell Gibbons.