Hello and welcome.
Our cucumbers are coming in fast and furious.
Earlier in the week I made two quarts of refrigerator dill pickles.
Then today I made 5 pints of bread and butter pickles.
The recipe I used is from the Ball Blue Book.
We’ve been eating a lot of green beans, so it was time to put some in the freezer. I froze four packages today.
It’s not time for making tomato sauce yet but we did pick our first (2) ripe tomatoes. One for each of us. They were small but delicious.
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Yay, Ruth! 👏👏👏
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Thanks, Mitzy. 🙂
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We have the heat but not enough rain. Even my tomatoes aren’t ripe yet 😞
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We could use some more rain too, but not enough rain is better than too much rain.
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True!
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I swear we went from lots of rain to sun and heat! I bet your garden is growing fast because of it all. I enjoy all your garden and farm shares! Thank you!
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I’m glad you enjoyed this, Nancy. You’re correct the gardens have enjoyed this heat. 🙂
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That is exciting that you are eating and preserving the foods you have grown.
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It is very rewarding.
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All the heat has made your crops grow fast and furiously hasn’t it? You’ll get some much-needed rain tomorrow since this storm is widespread, so the windmill gets a reprieve as do you and your husband as to gardening chores. Good luck with the rest of the tomatoes!
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Yes, the heat has been good for growing and finally we are getting some rain. At least we haven’t had too much rain like the last few years.
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Yes, the torrential rain like in the past few years. Well, I think we dodged another bullet today thankfully. Southeast Michigan, our area, was in the bullseye they said. We got some rain for an hour maybe … hopefully nothing overnight.
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We had a few light showers yesterday – less than half an inch. Every bit helps.
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We had more last night – it was a scorcher today … I hear it is over on Thursday for a bit. Thank goodness for that.
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Yes, we need a break from this extreme heat.
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I am looking forward to that cool break. However, all the parks where I usually go have events scheduled this coming weekend, Friday through Sunday, like the Jazz Festival at Elizabeth Park, Heritage Park has Junior World Series and in Dearborn, they have their annual “Homecoming” which is just a carnival, singing acts, etc. all outside at Ford Field Park where I usually park, but there’s construction in that area as well. We had a lot of rain today and thunder/lightning, but no flooding like at Metro Airport, which got five inches of rain in 40 minutes. It all dried up – in fact, the storm was from around 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and a neighbor was cutting the lawn at 8:00 p.m. I hope you didn’t have any damage to your plants or your crops from water/hail/wind.
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We had nothing. It was all to the south of us.
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Well, our last two events have fizzled out which I appreciated as they were predicting tornadoes, hail and 60 mph winds.
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Thank God for that!
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Yes, for sure! The weather is scary, whether it actually happens or is predicted to happen. I feel very lucky.
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