We are starting to get some produce from our garden: green beans, red chard and herbs (basil, chives, oregano). Last night I harvested enough for our dinner. Last week I had to pick a couple of green beans every day and store them until I finally had enough for a side dish for 2. But now the pole beans have started to produce and I love them: the beans are so much bigger an so many of them ! It is exactly as I remember from my grandparents' farm. This year is the first I planted pole beans and I did not have quite the right poles (really tall and strong) to give them for
support. So they've taken to going up the fence. Tim says now my neighbor has the legal right to pick the beans (my beans) from his side of the fence. I was worried about it for a sec, then remembered the G. only steps in his back yard once in a very long while and he probably wouldn't recognize the beans for what they are anyway. Hew!
The tomatoes are green right now, but if all goes well we should do quite well in that department. I haven't had much time to work in the garden lately. And it's July already and I need to think about planting some fall crops (between the rows of tomatoes). I'd like to put in some carrots (the spring planting never came), onions, lettuces, collard greens ( I let the spring ones go to seed, so now I have my own seeds, free). But I won't get around to it until next week.
Last weekend (the 54th ), we went camping in Western MD and in PA. Thursday night we camped the 15 Mile Creek (near Little Orleans). A small campground, with about 10 sites, almost all occupied. On Friday, the 4th, we spent the day canoing on the Potomac from Paw Paw through Bond's Landing. It was a great day in spite of the rain. It was warm enough and it didn't rain that hard while we were on the river. It even stopped several times enough for us to have lunch and take a napping break on the river bank. We were almost alone on the whole river, except for some fishermen. It was so serene and peaceful, just us and the nature. We saw deer , wild turkeys and a blue heron.
The fun part came when we had to ride our bicycles from the take-out point to the put-in (where the car was). It started raining really hard as we were getting out of the river, and we rode the C&O Canal towpath. Which is not a bike path. It's a dirt path, that when it rains it becomes really muddy. So we took a mud bath while getting back to the car, think of it as a free spa treatment. It was also very moisturizing as the rain was pouring down on us. There was not much clothing to get dirty, nothing a water pump couldn't handle.
Then we made our way to Ohiopyle, and the rain stopped when we got to our campground. We have a lovely evening, we cooked our own food (Tim did). Saturday was beautiful, with sun and clouds, but no rain. We canoed from Confluence to Ohiopyle, rode our bicycles back to Confluence and had the biggest soft-serve ever at the Suder's. That was the highlight of the weekend for me. Just kidding. The best thing was the local pub,
Falls City Pub, where Tim and I always go when in Ohiopyle. They have a huge number of micro brews on tap and the food is not bad at all. This year we took Sandy and Paul there too. They had a band playing at the pub and it was quite the lively scene. For me, the best thing was that they were serving all the drinks from
compostable cups made of corn. That and the new organic food store in town that just opened in June. So if this small town pub can afford to go green, I say there's hope, people!
We are starting to get some produce from our garden: green beans, red chard and herbs (basil, chives, oregano). Last night I harvested enough for our dinner. Last week I had to pick a couple of green beans every day and store them until I finally had enough for a side dish for 2. But now the pole beans have started to produce and I love them: the beans are so much bigger an so many of them ! It is exactly as I remember from my grandparents' farm. This year is the first I planted pole beans and I did not have quite the right poles (really tall and strong) to give them for
support. So they've taken to going up the fence. Tim says now my neighbor has the legal right to pick the beans (my beans) from his side of the fence. I was worried about it for a sec, then remembered the G. only steps in his back yard once in a very long while and he probably wouldn't recognize the beans for what they are anyway. Hew!
The tomatoes are green right now, but if all goes well we should do quite well in that department. I haven't had much time to work in the garden lately. And it's July already and I need to think about planting some fall crops (between the rows of tomatoes). I'd like to put in some carrots (the spring planting never came), onions, lettuces, collard greens ( I let the spring ones go to seed, so now I have my own seeds, free). But I won't get around to it until next week.
Last weekend (the 54th ), we went camping in Western MD and in PA. Thursday night we camped the 15 Mile Creek (near Little Orleans). A small campground, with about 10 sites, almost all occupied. On Friday, the 4th, we spent the day canoing on the Potomac from Paw Paw through Bond's Landing. It was a great day in spite of the rain. It was warm enough and it didn't rain that hard while we were on the river. It even stopped several times enough for us to have lunch and take a napping break on the river bank. We were almost alone on the whole river, except for some fishermen. It was so serene and peaceful, just us and the nature. We saw deer , wild turkeys and a blue heron.
The fun part came when we had to ride our bicycles from the take-out point to the put-in (where the car was). It started raining really hard as we were getting out of the river, and we rode the C&O Canal towpath. Which is not a bike path. It's a dirt path, that when it rains it becomes really muddy. So we took a mud bath while getting back to the car, think of it as a free spa treatment. It was also very moisturizing as the rain was pouring down on us. There was not much clothing to get dirty, nothing a water pump couldn't handle.
Then we made our way to Ohiopyle, and the rain stopped when we got to our campground. We have a lovely evening, we cooked our own food (Tim did). Saturday was beautiful, with sun and clouds, but no rain. We canoed from Confluence to Ohiopyle, rode our bicycles back to Confluence and had the biggest soft-serve ever at the Suder's. That was the highlight of the weekend for me. Just kidding. The best thing was the local pub, Falls City Pub, where Tim and I always go when in Ohiopyle. They have a huge number of micro brews on tap and the food is not bad at all. This year we took Sandy and Paul there too. They had a band playing at the pub and it was quite the lively scene. For me, the best thing was that they were serving all the drinks from compostable cups made of corn. That and the new organic food store in town that just opened in June. So if this small town pub can afford to go green, I say there's hope, people!
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