Herbs to plant.

A couple of cute ideas for growing herbs...now that some of the heat has subsided Mr. Outdoors and I have been talking about a fall garden.  How about peas, broccoli, lettuce and herbs too!  I canned another 7 jars of tomatoes this morning and froze some more melon balls.  Work a little each day hand quilting Grandaughters wedding quilt and am 1/3 of the way done, Christmas will be here before we know it!  Happy Wednesday!

Summer canning still.......

I have been canning tomatoes for weeks now, we are so Thankful for them.  We have a bumper crop of cantaloupes this year and I have made pineapple/cantaloupe preserves....14 pints.  I will give some out for Christmas and we will eat the rest.  This is a new recipe for me to use and we like it.  Crushed pineapple, cantaloupe, juice of one lemon and sugar.  I just let it cook down to the right consistency and use the hot water bath canner...easy peasy.  Cantaloupe melon balls are in the freezer, I don't know how they will turn out but I am thinking we can always put them in smoothies if we don't like them.  I am wanting to make green tomato pickles and that may be right around the corner as Mr. outdoors tells me the tomatoes are on their way out.  In Arkansas they serve green tomato pickles with their catfish and they are one of my favorites....don't know if I like the catfish more or the pickles!  Our weather is cooling down some...as in 98 as opposed to 108...if you can call that cool....right?!

The fawn is growing!

Remember this sweet fawn Mr. Outdoors happened upon during his morning walk?  Well look how much this baby has grown...in less than 2 months yet!  Sweet!  Something tells me we won't be petting it anymore.   

Hot!

We are back @ the farm in Kansas and brother it is HOT!!  111 degrees today with no relief in sight.  It is not fit for man nor beast out there, trying to keep the trees, flowers and garden  alive is a real challenge.  I am still canning tomatoes by doing it outside on the propane burner we use for turkey frying.  The cantaloupe are ripening at breakneck speed and so tasty on a hot summer day!  BLT's are the lunch of choice and so good with those fresh tomatoes.  It seems my day is filled with laundry, cooking and dishes these days.  I have been doing some crochet of late, a purse I found a pattern for in an old crochet magazine and the Grandaughters wedding quilt is a daily project of mine.  Hopefully I will have it finished by Christmas!  Looking forward to August passing by quickly so fall can arrive in record time.  Fingers crossed here!  Sultry Sunday!

Summer canning

 Canning tomatoes from the garden today...always makes me thing of my Grandmother who canned a zillion jars of fruits and vegetables in her lifetime.  All done without the convience of air conditioning!  She taught me so much and canning was one of those things.  Miss youGrandma!

July is whizzing by!

Mr. Outdoors and I are in Colorado, enjoying the cool weather and doing lots of sight seeing and some fishing.  The Cattlemans Rodeo is going on now and we have enjoyed all the activities and attended the 4 H club auction last eve of all the projects the children had made,  Those kids are so precious, modeling the outfits they have sewn and rockets they have made, pottery, leather crafts, baking, crochet and quilts too.  The weather is so much cooler here than in Kansas and we sure do appreciate it!  We drove over to Montrose today and did some shopping, the pictures above were taken on our way back to Gunnison.  Terrific Tuesday!

Our Anniversary

Today is our 47th wedding anniversary...where oh where has time gone?  We are both squinting in this picture, the sun was so bright, it almost looks like we are in pain...LOL.  Mr. Outdoors is the love of my life, my very best friend and such a great Dad and Grandpa to our kids and grandkids.  Three more years and we will celebrate our 50th and it will be party time!