Cucumbers, etc.

I just went out and picked a few cucumbers from the garden.  I think these are some of the longest cucumbers I've ever grown!

I also picked the last of the peaches. So sad.  We've had many great years with them. Now what's left of the tree can come down.

Super Saturday

Our Relief Society put on a Super Saturday.  There were lots of different projects: A tile with the B virtues, stick horses, children's aprons made from a kitchen towel, hanging towel w/ hot pad, children's rings, braided headbands, Christmas bags and tags, and a mini quiet book.  I may have missed one or two, but mainly that was it.  I made the bags, tags and quiet book.  They are pretty cute, if I do say so myself!

The mini quiet book is made from name badge holders, and 2x3 pictures. We're supposed to add some pictures of our own.  I think I'll call it a "purse quiet book."

Neighborhood party

Last night we hosted a neighborhood party.  We invited everyone from our street, the street over, and around the corner, which was about 33 houses.  We had 10 families join us, so we thought it was a pretty good turnout.  It was a lot of fun.  We had a net set up in the front yard, and Cowboy Golf in the back yard, and so the kids were entertained while the adults chatted.  We had to clean up when the mosquitoes started biting. We want to do it again in about a month. :-)

We set up chairs in the carport so we'd have shade.

Who needs a Super Soaker, when you have a bucket?

The garden and a new recipe!

John making the orzo salad.

Our funny cucumber that grew around a brick.

The salad, almost done, along side our vegetable bounty that didn't make it into the salad.

Yesterday we tried a new recipe using Orzo pasta.  It's just a basic salad, with lots of cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, scallions, and of course, orzo, in it. We put in our fresh picked bell pepper, too!  Topped it with fresh made balsamic vinaigrette.  We also made a squash/onion/tomato stir-fry.  The protein of the dinner was Italian Sausage, barbequed.  Yum!  This is a big bowl, by the way.  We ate well over half of the salad, it was that good!

Education Week

I had a great time going to Education Week.  I went to lots of great classes, but the funnest class was with Chef Brad.  He inspired me to cook with more grains than wheat!  In fact, today I made Oatmeal and Brown Rice Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies.  They're pretty good.  My primary class liked them, so that's a point in my favor!  I found the cookie recipe online somewhere (sorry, I didn't copy it), but I had to add a lot more flour than the recipe called for.  Chef Brad has a great website with great info and recipes.  His TV show is on BYUtv.  Chef Brad

Education Week

Today is the last day of Education Week.  It's been fun, but the house and yard are in real need of upkeeping!  I've been managing to keep up with picking up the apricots on the ground, but the house is a mess.  I caught up a little on Wednesday, since I only went to the evening classes, (spent the morning at the FHC) but spent most of the extra time time picking apricots and putting some in the dehydrator.  Gave 4 gallons away. The last class ends at 9:25, so I get home about 10.  After finishing dinner at 11 pm, neither of us feel like doing dishes, so the sink is getting full.  Tonight is Karen's birthday party, so I'm not even coming home after classes!  Crazy, but fun!

Can you guess what it is?

I few weeks ago I made some homemade hamburger and hot dog buns.  I made 1 1/2 times the recipe, so they barely fit on the pan.  I didn't notice that one hot dog bun had fallen off!  I've used the oven a few times since then, and finally took it out yesterday.  This was hard as a rock, and obviously very black.  It's like coal, I guess!  Too funny, I just had to share!