April 30th

Today is National Oatmeal Cookie Day!

These tasty cookies have been around 

since the 1800's.

Soldiers carried Oatcakes as a 

quick and simple meal.

The exact origins are unknown,

but the oldest known recipe is in 

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.

She was a Boston area native, who

created the Boston Cooking School,

and wrote the best seller 

cook book in 1896.

Amazingly, this cookbook, with

a few new recipes,

is still in print!

I wasn't able to find the original 

Fannie Farmer recipe,

but there's a really good one on

the Quaker Oats box.

(I've made these several times, YUM!)

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Our first Big Boy tomato.

It was absolutely delicious!

Dark purple cherry tomatoes.

This plant has about 13.

A recent harvest of red and brown potatoes.

Carrots - orange, purple and white.

Beets - white, red and orange.

Cauliflower - purple.

The darker the color of the veggie,

the higher the content of antioxidants

and nutrients will be, and the healthier

the food.

Brussels Sprouts

Eggplants

Corn

Cucumber

cooked carrots for tonight's dinner

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It rained hard yesterday and the taller

flowers took a beating, so

I cut them to enjoy inside.

These are snapdragons.

Red and peach Gladiolus.

More red and peach gladiolus

and red snapdragons.

Red gladiolus.

Peach gladiolus.

Mary's Garden

with sweet peas

on each side of Her.

Can't wait'll they bloom!

Begonias

The CEO got some wildflower

seeds and planted these beauties.

Mandevilla

Pansies

Marigolds

Rescued Mums from

a garden department garbage heap.

Literally covered in blooms!!

Fence garden.

Blueberry bushes and flowers

to attract bees and butterflies.

The helper, Lucy, looking for 

tasty morsels.

Lazy Ethel.

Sleeping in the shade.

Backyard critters.

Baby possums.

Miss Minew.

She is not predatory at all!

It's a boy!

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Beautiful morning sunrise!

And this...

We were at a local nursery

for chicken feed, when we saw this.

Looks like a Victorian era insult, 

if you ask me.

"You hairy vetch!"

In case you're wondering,

this is a flowering ground

cover, typically used as pollinator plants

around fruits and vegetable plants.

The hairy part refers to the small numerous

leaves that resemble hairs and the word vetch

is an old English word referring to legumes.

It is toxic to humans and some animals.

so, by that nature, it's a big no for us.

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I love chicken jokes!

Thanks for viewing.

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