Spooky Date Night


For our Tuesday date night we watched the wonderfully animated movie Coraline. It was definitely dark and sometimes creepy, but also sweet. We loved it!
I often try to cook a dinner that thematically goes with the movie, but this week I was at a loss. Had I seen the movie before I would have known that roasted chicken would be a great option. So, if you haven't seen it grab yourself a copy and some roasted chicken and button down with someone you love. : )

Pure coincidence, but very high on my knitting wishlist is this beautiful pattern by my favorite knitting designer. Soon my pretty you shall be mine!

A View From The Garden



This summer has been an exciting one in our garden. We planted some pumpkin seeds and we have our first pumpkin starting to turn orange; the kids are very excited about it and the prospects of our home grown Jack-o-Lantern come Halloween. In addition we got our first harvest of Blackberries and they are so sweet! We planted two new trees in the Spring: A Peach tree that we look forward to enjoying fruit from in a couple years and an Anna Apple tree. We got two apples off of it in June and the birds got a few as well. We made a small fruit salad with the apples, a few grapes from one of our vines, and a handful of Blackberries. It was really nice knowing that everything we grew ourselves and it all tasted so good. We will have a bumper crop of Pomegranates this fall and, as usual, can not wait.

We have been eating lots and lots of fresh tomatoes. This year I planted three cherry tomatoes (we eat them as fast as they are available), one Early Girl, a Roma, and a new one called Arkansas Traveler (which I like a lot). Soon we will be eating many cucumbers too (D loves them). Lastly, we have a couple of tiny corn, some baby carrots, radishes, and a sweet pepper named Gypsy! Can you tell we love our vegetable garden? : )

A medley of homegrown fruit

Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy!

In our pond we planted a few new water plants and have had mixed success. The waterlilies have been putting on a nice show for us as well as the hyacinth. We have been working hard on keeping the plants under control as they are prone to taking over if given a chance and we want to keep our pond goldfish happy. I think though that we don't need to worry too much about them, they seem to be quite happy as we now have at least one goldfish baby in there. ; )

Anyway, that just a small glimpse of our garden this year.

 

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