Bringing the Outside In
Cookbook of the Month: March
I asked for this cookbook a couple Christmases back because I had fond memories of my Mom cooking from her drip-stained copy of it when I was in junior high. It’s a cookbook we got from the Mormon church, and the backstory on it deserves its own blog entry.
For whatever reason, I never actually cracked it open until this year’s Cookbook of the Month project. As I was flipping through it, I realized two things: one, this cookbook doesn’t really know who its audience is; and two, my Mom didn’t actually cook many recipes from this cookbook. I only recognized a couple things, and the rest were either dead-simple staples or slightly unusual ways to recombine the food from your pantry.
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: May 2018
Bloom Day is the 15th of each month… and that’s exactly when I took these photos, even though today’s post is dated the 24th. Heh.
My Zone 6 garden is well on its way to waking up from winter, despite a slow start to the spring. In the week since I took these photos, many more blooms have opened up — including my one of my favorites, the tree peony. But, since we’re talking Bloom Day and not today, I’ll keep my photos to the ones I actually took on the 15th.
First Iris of the Season
I moved several irises last summer in the hopes of better balancing out my garden design — and getting some irises to bloom that I’d never seen in bloom in the six summers I’ve been in this house.
This particular iris is one that has been in this spot the whole time, yet this year is the first it’s bloomed for me.
I’ll take it.
Twitter Update: May 18, 2018 at 08:29AM
The 1st three cuts on my New Release Radar playlist today are from @clutchofficial, @iammatthewsweet, and @wearejames.
I think @spotify’s algorithm has me pegged now.