Life Snippets #19

We're home after our long weekend at the Rock Farm.  I guess it's good I was acclimated to our unusually hot weather here, because it was hotter than Hades there.  Now I'll spend the rest of the week playing catch up.  It's amazing how much yard work needs to be done after five days of not doing any.

So this is the usual purge of of random photos, all of them were taken in June.

My brother-in-law made a trip with my parents to their place at Puget Sound, and dropped off oysters and clams on the way home.

The Dad and the kids feasted to their heart's content.

I made pasta with garlic scapes (thank you Alison) and kale-basil pesto (from the garden), and new recipe two-ingredient naan bread (that turned out amazing), to go with.

We picked our first cucumber from the driveway veggie garden and harvested some more carrots.

They're the short, round ones, and so dang sweet and delicious.

The cucumber didn't even make it into the house without the nibbling beginning.

Baby is all over cucumbers.

The Girl wanted to pose with the goods.

Who am I to say no?

 This picture cracks me up.
They're like gangster gardeners.

I spun around and snapped a couple of The Kid, too.

I've been totally slackin' in the breakfast department since school let out, but I did make a Dutch Baby with blueberries from the garden.

Soooo good with fresh squeezed lemon and powdered sugar.

I have no idea who took this picture, but it's a pretty good representation of my daily life, when I'm not in the yard, that is.

I posted a link to this recipe on my Facebook page recently, saying I was making it for dinner.

It was as good as I wanted it to be.

Avocado and Grilled Chicken Caprese Salad.

I put TONS of fresh basil in mine and could have eaten my weight in it.
Oh wait, I did.

I'm makin' it again when our tomatoes start comin' on hot and heavy.

Yes, that was a lot of pictures of one plate full, but it was so dang good.

The kids bitched and moaned about having "saaaaaalad" for dinner, then proceeded to inhale their deconstructed deliciousness.

Soooo, there's gotta be a better way to do this.

How do you organize your plant tags?

This is my set up and it ain't workin'.

And last, one evening I was out front taking pictures of flowers, and The Kid and The Girl came out to eat Otter Pops.

So I went after them with the camera, too.

Have a great rest of the week, out to the garden I go........