Continuing on the garden theme.....

The sugar snap peas are actually twice as tall as this photo taken only a week ago.  We have had soft, rainy days, and cool nights.....all the things that gardens love.  And the weeds love it too.....ugh.  :)

Broccoli......lots and lots

Well, the broccoli is doing right fine this winter.  The bag full you see here is about the fourth bag I have cut, and there is lots more still on the stem.  Put my snap peas in two weeks ago,they are peeking out about two inches now, and this week-end I am going to have to get the stakes in and give them something to hang on to as they get tall.  Now if I could only ban all weeds from the garden, things would be wonderful!!!  :)  For those of you who visit my blog, wish I could bring a bag of broccoli to your door this evening.

Fresh Eggs

I do not have my own chickens. (Though it would be fun if I did.)  So friends share with me when they can, and yesterday I received some that were REALLY fresh.  It was the first time they ever came to me with part of the nest and even a few feathers included!  This is exactly how they looked when I opened the bag.  Aren't they beautiful?  I have a cake in the oven right now and I used three of them in the batter......

The owner said they were her children's Easter chickens from last year, and now they are giving eggs....so cool.

Butterfly Whisperer

The header photo on this blog shows a Monarch Butterfly.  Each year they migrate over the ocean to a place called St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge on our own North Florida coastline.  A day trip there will allow you to see hundreds literally dripping off the flowering bushes along the bay.  But a few renegades always make their way to Tallahassee, and cling to our gardens too.  It is exquisite to see.  My granddaughter can actually catch them, without harm.  I call her the butterfly whisperer.  It takes patience and quiet movements, but she reaches out and clasps them by their closed wings, only to let them go moments later.      

New Dining table arrived!

In 34 years of marriage, this is our first new dining table.  Goodwill is now the proud owner of our very tired Duncan Phyfe 1940's table.....someone will love it I know, but I am loving this one!  We found it in North Carolina last fall.  Now we can seat 8 with the leaf.

Less is more?

Well, we are waiting on a new dining room table to be delivered from North Carolina.  In the meantime, we gave our old one to Goodwill.  So we put a little chestnut table and two chairs in its place so we could have a place to eat, and it looks so cozy!  It could not seat eight, which is what our family has grown to, but I loved the space and the warm little place it provided for us to read the paper in the morn and have dinner in the eve.    

Christmas Day - part of the fam

It was a great Christmas.  It has been so long since I entered anything in my blog, that I found my browser did not support the blog anymore, so I do not know what I am doing at this point or how this will look!  But the photo shows our newest little one opening a gift, which in her world means eating the paper.