Who knew?

While in Houston last month I had mentioned that we did some Geo-caching in cemeteries, one of which was the Glenwood Cemetery where Howard Hughes is buried. He is in a plot along with his mother and father. The plot is well fenced but I managed to get a photo or two.

Gardening has been the continuing project for the last month. That and Clyda’s recovery from her ankle replacement. More on that later.

I am over run with vegetables from the garden. I am getting salad cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, pole beans, peas, yellow squash, zucchini, and beets. To come yet are tomatoes, and carrots. Because of the abundance, I give away as much as people will take and I give recipes with the harvest as well.

However, I have a few things I have kept for myself. For instance, I am getting pickling cucumbers so I have made open jar pickles which I then put in quart jars and keep in the refrigerator. I do the same with the beets I pickle. I will also make some pickled beans called “Dilly Beans” as soon as the bean crop increases. I have been picking peas but so has some critter as I find empty bean pods in the garden. I still get enough for us.

I also took an empty pickled beet jar and am pickling a few hard boiled eggs in the leftover beet juice. They always look so nice when you slice them.

My salad cucumbers took a hit from the dog yesterday as she was chasing a lizard among the vines. I am afraid I may need to pull up those vines. Not to fear though, my neighbor planted what was marked as 11 watermelon plants from the nursery but turned out to be cucumbers. I think he will have enough for all of us. I also get Romaine lettuce from him so I haven’t bought lettuce in some time.

I make cucumber salad with vinegar and have that with my lunch. It reminds me of my youth back on the farm when salad meant vinegar cucumbers or cucumbers in sour cream. We also had lots of cucs back on the farm. It was our main salad during the summer.

I am finding lots of new, good looking recipes on-line to use up this abundant crop.

Clyda has been doing well in her rehab but has yet to put any weight on her foot. She gets around using a knee scooter and has ventured outside to the patios. Today she even went to her knitting group for a few hours. Having had a knee replacement causes it to be painful to spend much time on that scooter however. She started out with a partial cast for 2 weeks then had a hard cast for two weeks and now just a nylon boot which she can remove for showering, etc. She finds it much better than the hard cast as it can be off for part of the day if she isn’t moving around.

Our life revolves around her rehab and the garden as you can see.