While I waited for customers to arrive this morning, I planted a couple of rows in the vegetable garden and vegged out with Mica, admiring “our” handiwork. We are trying to get the dog to wait at the edge of the garden always, but it helps the cause tremendously if I hang out there, drinking … Continue reading
This afternoon, I finished breaking up and separating (“cleaning”) sixty pounds of garlic. This is so that the garlic king can plant the cloves this fall. This weekend, actually. I have often busied myself with other things, or provided just a token amount of aid when it comes time to do this job; there are … Continue reading
Last night I sat with my feet up and peeled a great number of garlic cloves. We always have the broken heads or damaged cloves in the house, and they don’t keep as well as the poster-girl heads that we sell. As is often my way, I didn’t want to deal with the dirtiest heads … Continue reading
Just finished cleaning the last head of garlic of … (what did we figure, Gary?) more than 2400. The garlic harvest is really Gary’s claim to fame, and he has done most of the work. I just happened to have finished this stage. And I have a blog, so I’m declaring it. Most heads of … Continue reading
After yet another busy Pet Hostel weekend, I got back into the garden. Even though Gary and I keep downsizing, for example, “just one package of carrots, only one row of peas …”, a single package of 100 onion sets. You get the idea. It’s all good food but takes time to “put by”. This … Continue reading
Shih Tzus and Shih Tzu cross dogs are the mainstays of my grooming business. It used to be that poodles and cockapoos were my most frequent clients. It’s funny how breed popularity changes over time. I love most individual dogs, regardless of breed, so I don’t care how the trends go. Monday was just for … Continue reading
Oh, thank goodness, the last of the garlic is cleaned. We have marketed quite a bit already, but there is plenty to peddle yet. There are about 30 small heads and some of what I call “anomalies” that will be great for our own use … taste great but are not nice looking. Those don’t … Continue reading
Have had a couple of fairly busy days since getting back from Nelson. Shelly and Susan did a phenomenal job of keeping the Pet Hostel running and all guests safe and happy. As well, the kennel building was so neat and tidy, all dishes and bedding washed and put away. Things were “better” than how … Continue reading
Much like the zucchini bread batter, in which I substituted this and that for the other, and it turned out well, I made a sort of Indianish dinner. Yes, I know that’s not a word, but I’ll bet you know what I mean. I had stew beef, so I browned and stewed that in the … Continue reading
It’s frightening how fast the time goes by: days, weeks, years, decades. A lifetime seems so short. Things are great around here; seems almost daily we progress in some small way… careers, yard, life in general. On the other hand, to some, what we do is rather ordinary, and we can live with that. Remember … Continue reading
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