Sept 16, 2018 Almost time to leave for my trip

I guess I'll never forget the "incident."  But it is cool how God is using this incident even at the Navigators Regional Rep meetings.

Well, zucchini chips are another addition to the summer harvest.  Using the mandolin REALLY makes a difference because the zucchini chips are uniform. Planning to make more today. Finished what I had yesterday.

Tom picked a lovely zucchini this morning.  There is another butternut squash and lots of cucumbers hiding.  We had zucchini boats last night and I have 2 meals of those in the freezer.  When I get back from Peru, I will need to eat things in the freezer or put Tom on a no-buy-for-freezer mode as near the beginning of Nov, must start making biscotti.  

Oh, found a recipe for zucchini bread using yogurt, olive oil and lemon zest. Really nice.

It has been VERY HOT here. In the 90s so still getting tomatoes and banana peppers galore.

Today I'll make zucchini relish as I want to give some to Linda for her birthday, very early birthday gift in late October.

I wanted to mention that the carrots were bad this year but no problem, I made green apple and carrot juice with them and apples falling all over the neighborhood. They are not good apples for eating but good for juice and baking. I don't make pies, though.  Yali brought over a watermelon that did not last so I made watermelon cucumber juice. Just finished that today.  very good.

 It is rooting. I just did that to have a nice smell in the kitchen.

 My basement refrigerator!

 Garden dying

Makes great juice

Love those Italian cucumbers.  I still have some seeds for those.

owls! Sept 7, 2018

Morning entertainment: At 6:45 this morning I heard the hooting of an owl and could see out my window that something was going on in the ash tree right outside our window. I looked out and I could see the back of an owl and it was a big owl. I called Tom over and as we were looking out the window, the owl turned its head in the funny way that only owls can do and looked right at us. Then the owl took off and another owl went with him. I actually think that one of the owls had captured a squirrel because we could hear a squirrel squealing before that. Between the hawk and the owl, it's no wonder we haven't seen a lot of rabbits and we have fewer squirrels.  I must say that it was very exciting and I really love owls.  this is the first time that I've seen an owl around our house!

It was so fun!  I think that God provided the owls and hawk to rid the neighborhood of squirrels. It was odd that I had had a dream this morning that I had captured a small wild rabbit with my right hand. I held it down until I could figure out how to get rid of it. Somehow got it in a bag and threw it in the freezer. I woke up with a sore hand. 

So the garden is looking older.  But flowers are still pretty and look at those butternut squash. I made a bacon, pear, butternut squash soup.  so good!