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The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.

Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....

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2010 Around Our House

January 11, 2013

SPRING / SUMMER 2010

Welcome to around our house 2010, browse around our photos and help yourself to take a look around our past entries posted in left hand side of this website page.

Our vegetables are coming in slowly but just enough for us to eat something fresh daily.

We are growing some vegetables vertical using arbors.

Eggplant

Cucumber on Arbor

Eggplant blooms

Our tomatoes are late this year we have a few cherry tomatoes

Small squash patch, we have been getting just enough squash to eat some every couple of days.

Guara plants also called swirrling butterflies

Blueberries

Every couple of days we can expect this much

Bee Balm

Bee Balm

Purple Coneflower

Blackeyed susans

Vegetables and herbs mixed

Sugar

Cookie eating carrot tops

Sugar on her favorite shelf

Cookie always likes a rub

Outside the bunny house looking toward the vegetable garden

Daisies

New baby coneflower

Fig, Blackeyed susans, daisies, and more

We had quite a few strawberries this year, we actually put some in the freezer.

Pretty bug, some kind of dragonfly?

I make fresh bread now, never buy store bought anymore. I went on a baking spree.

It was hard to knead bread and take a photo

Pre- Pita Bread

Ready for the oven

Ummmm, sourdough pita bread

Had to taste the cinnamon rolls :)

Fresh bread rolls, wish you could smell it

I went to the local rescue mission store and found this old dresser

Sanded it down reall good

Then I painted it

I am soooo excited we found out that we have a local organic milk farm called Working Cows Dairy outside of our small city. So we went on a short trip out in the country and drove out to the farm.