The Toxic Housewife

Mixed Berry Jam I just don't know how those pioneering folks did it: living off the land is hard work .  I spent last night and part of today harvesting some of the vegetables at the farm and then preparing them for either canning or freezing.  God, I miss Walmart.

Guess what I did today? OK, well -- yes -- first I worked my Sunday market and made all of $100, but THEN I rented the bee club's extractor, brought it home, and Bee and I got to gettin' us some honey!

I Feel Pretty OK, so the constant stream of blurred-faced people in my blog photos is kind of freaking even me out . . . but that's the only way I can figure out how to protect the anonymity of the folks pictured within.  And, obviously, said folks need their anonymity protected, since I tend to post only incriminating photos.  Case in point: Mr. C prancing around his cousin Kay's house in one of her princess dresses. He's like the daughter I never had.  I'm so proud!

You see that?  That right there? You may see it as a disgusting-looking glob of meat, cheese and vegetables . . .

(oooh; scary!) We just got back from an 11-day tour of the East Coast.  You want to know aaaaalllllllllll about it, don't you?  Because it involved three days of planes, 5 different sleeping spots, and concluded with a four-day camp-out amongst 40 close friends I'd never met before. I'd give you the short version . . . but -- let's face it -- I'm too self-involved to even consider  that you wouldn't want to spend the next several weeks catching up on every single detail of my life.   As such, for your reading pleasure, may I present the first post in a multi-post series regarding our trip back east? Our first destination was to be central Virginia, where my sister lives.  However, I won't even consider that part of the trip to be the First Leg; oh no!  When one is traveling with a small child, just riding the airplane is a major trip in itself; so our full-day journey from the West Coast to the East Coast shall be Leg One.

1)  Why did you put your chicken in the cooler?

Firework Cookies Happy 4th of July!