How Does Your Garden Grow?

So, today I went and bought some beautiful Mums at our local Saveway grocery store. I love mums. It makes me excited for fall. I planted them in my antique radio flyer wagon of my grandma's. I also snapped some pictures of our produce out of our garden that I picked today. Claire loves to pick the carrots and eat them. The other day she picked a hot pepper out of our garden without me knowing and ate it. She came running toward me saying, "Hot! Hot! I want water." I asked her what she ate and she pointed to the peppers. I asked her, "Did you eat the peppers?" She nodded her head yes and said, "I don't like peppers."

Kate

I have been getting some requests to post more pics of Kate. I snapped this one today. She is getting chubby. Her little belly is pokin' out and she is getting fat rolls around her wrists...funny, I am too. She has started smiling too occasionally.

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

This morning it rained in Salmon and Claire wanted to go outside. I kept telling her, "No, honey. It's raining." She just kept begging to go outside so I thought why not. So, I dressed her warm and gave her an umbrella. She had a lot of fun with the umbrella and I'm glad I let her because she looks so cute.

Fairs, and Rides, and Carnies, Oh My!

So, this last week was the Lemhi County Fair. There is not a lot to the Lemhi County Fair, but what I like about it is that it is free and it is not crowded and you know most of the people that enter stuff into the fair. We went just about everyday to the fair for the following reasons 1. the food 2. the animals and 3. it is something different than the everyday in Salmon. We all had so much fun petting the animals. Claire's extent of petting the animals is poking them on the top of the head just once and then giggling. She was a little leary of the sheep for some reason and bored with the cows. She was just plain scared of the pigs. I couldn't even get her to poke them on the belly. She did find the pigs' bum bums quite hilarious though. All was good until we headed in the direction of the carnival. I thought it would be great fun to let her go on some kid rides. I have never enjoyed the carnival. I don't trust the rides or the sexy carnies. Anything that folds up and drives away and is operated by someone who may have not finished the 3rd grade is not safe to go on in my opinion. So I decided to try my child out on them. I sat Claire in one of the fish cars and she started to cry. So, I went and got her. The operator let her see what the ride does and she still didn't want to go on it. They had a miniature roller coaster that parents could ride too. So I thought maybe she will go on it if I'm with her. As soon as we got in the car she started screaming, "I WANT TO GO HOME!" I thought as soon as it starts going she will have a lot of fun. So, I told the operator to go once around the track. Let me tell you...my life flashed before my eyes as soon as the ride started going. It was so loud and rickety that I thought for sure we had met our demise. Claire was bouncing around like a rag doll in the car so I was her only source of restraint. When I would look at her face I could see her mouth wide open but no sound because the ride was so loud. When we came to a screaching halt Claire was still screaming with big ole tears streaming down her face and I too said, "I want to go home." I remember when I was younger that I hated people trying to get me to do something that I didn't want to do, so I have learned my lesson not to do that to others. I felt so bad that I made her go on that ride. I am now taking her to see a psychiatrist to help her work through her emotions.

Raspberry Brown Betty

So, I decided that I needed to do something else during my day other than clean my living room and kitchen and play with a two year old. Mandy inspired me to start making fruit desserts again out of my awesome Rustic Fruit Desserts book. So I made Raspberry Brown Betty. It was so very good. I wish I could have shared it with all of you.

This is my flour sifter. I had to take a picture of it because I just love it. I love it because it is cute, an antique, and surprisingly very efficient.



So, whenever you come to visit I will whip up a bowl for you. Happy Sunday everyone.