for Grandmother and Granddaughter.

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Our jalapeno plants are finally producing! I had given up on these plants up a few weeks ago but couldn’t bear to take them out of the garden while they were still healthy looking. They had a rough, leggy beginning grown from seed indoors with insufficient light and then we transplanted them into the garden just before …

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Sam likes to eat history. Between reading about the Jewish diaspora in The Story of the World and Rosh Hashanah this week, it seemed like a good time to bake challah bread. The braiding was trickier than I thought it would be and the proportions in the recipe (from one of Sam’s library books, naturally) were waaay off. …

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Sure, our backyard neighbor’s hostas are beautiful, but look at the lawn!

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Just when I think that Sam is done with everything Dorbie-(aka Barbie)-related, she drags them all out of her closet and festivities ensue.

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I confess I put the porch light on so he or she might catch a good meal tonight.

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The white stuff that looks like rice are actually cocoons of the braconid wasp– a parasite of the hornworm. Yeah so the hornworm was eating our tomato plant and the wasps will eventually eat the hornworm. Ultimately that’s good for the garden, but still. Ewww.

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from the Cemetery garden. The tomatoes are splitting from too much water, apparently, but they still taste pretty good.

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The day our British friends left Cville for DC. Ah well. Perhaps the rain yesterday made them feel at home.

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