Hi Everyone!
Today is Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T-Party.
Be sure to stop by to see what everyone is doing.
For me, the garden. We had 2, no snow, days and I took advantage of it. I put all of my plants outside to get them hardened. A job because I have to bring them all back in. It's still at or below freezing at night. On one of the days, I opened up the big garden.
YAY! I was so happy to pull off the tarp and plywood to find the richest, worm filled soil. I had cardboard over the dirt as well and the worm castings were amazing. I won't have to put any extra in at all.
But then, I saw 5 or 6 citronella ants. NOT good. They were on top of the soil so I am hoping this is a good sign. I did write to the OSU the garden extension to see what they have to say about it. These ants are orange and 1/4" long and they tend to root aphids and mealy bugs so they can feed on the excretion. The fact that there have been no plants in the big garden for 7 months, and it has been blow freezing I just don't know why there would be root aphids in my soil. If any of you gardeners know about this please email me.
I worked on the soil a bit and then got the poly hung because the next 2 weeks is rain, wind, hail and more snow. boo hoo hoo.
The other day I made a sugar free (made with splenda) white cake for a strawberry/banana treat for Mr. M. I will say the cake sucks. It's just me, I hate the taste of splenda. However, Mr. M. likes it so go for it dude. LOL
Most of you know I shop early in the AM and so the other morning I stopped in at Safeway/Albertsons. OMG they had meat on sale! I couldn't pass up on several items but mostly the London Broil. It was dirt cheap. This is the meat I can. So I bought 7 packages for under $38.00 Now I don't know what you pay for beef but for here, that is a great price. I know this photo only shows 6 packages, I have one piece on the slab already. LOL
I do trim as much fat off as I can |
This is a huge bowl and meat was toppling over. |
I got 14 pints of beef and 4 pints of chicken breast. |
The beef has seasoning and onions and is so tender out of the jar. |
For my drink I'm having an afternoon hot cup of coffee with cream. It is so cold today I thought that would warm me up.
Nicole