Tue, May 8, 2012 05/08/2012
 Planted these today!  Radishes!  Strawberries!  Hilled the potatoes. Add Comment Garden Progress 05/04/2012
Well, there's been some progress with the garden!  I put a fence around 2 of the raised beds due to bunnies eating my plants.  The potatoes FINALLY came up. I've never grown potatoes so this is merely a "winging it" adventure with them. We'll see how it goes.  Beets I started from seed!  Notice how the onions/garlic got so much bigger!! My Garden 2012! 04/17/2012
 My onions and garlic are popping through the soil! Garden 2012 04/12/2012
My life has been consumed by grad school class, grad school papers, and work with little free time (or money) in between. However, I still have time and energy to garden. After gardening for years with only some success, I've decided that raised beds were the way to go for many reasons. Namely, you control the soil quality.  I went out and bought cedar wood. Not only is it not chemical treated, but it lasts longer than other untreated woods, and it's pretty!  I looked at some free compost from the borough. It wasn't 100% composted, but I took it anway.  I laid cardboard down on the bottoms of the bed to prevent weeds from coming up. What happens is the cardboard gives no light to the weed seeds beneath and it also serves as a barrier.  Finished beds with compost, sand, and peat moss. The bed on the right will have lots of root vegetables -carrots, radishes, onions, potatoes, etc.  I made one more bed, and I might make one more! Juicer 01/10/2012
I got a juicer for Christmas and I love it! The first juice I made was a carrot apple juice, and today I made a tangerine/orange juice. With most citrus fruits you must peel off the skin skin before juicing because it makes the juice bitter, and it's supposedly not great for you. The juice still came out a little bitter today, but I wonder if that's because the fruit itself was a little bitter or because I'm used to the juices in the supermarket that are full of sweetners/preservatives. Nonetheless, it was yummy. I got about 2 cups worth of juice from 1 large orange and four tangerines. Not bad!      2011 Reviewed through photos! 01/05/2012
 Awesome eats in Philly.  Fun walks around Philly  Fun Trip to Vermont!  Record listening!  Dog walking!  Gardening!  Apple Farm Music Festival!  Hanging on a beach during a storm!  Fall :)  Best Burger in Philly!  Hanging out at Mimi's for Tapas in New Orleans.  Eating Mack and Manco's  Snugglin' my best gal.   The road to NC  Stopping at Farm stands for apples  Starting Grad School :) Cape May Bird Watching 08/31/2011
Tuesday evening, we headed down to Cape May to use a groupon for a Wetlands Wildlife Safari aboard the "Osprey" for a 6pm Sunset cruise. It was quite wonderful! Before we boarded the boat, we looked through their little aquarium, which had a horseshoe crab, starfish, eel, and flounder. They pulled them out to show us and gave us interesting facts about them all. After heading out into the bay, we saw A LOT of birds. They provided binoculars free of charge to be used during the ride. We saw a rare brown booby bird, tons of osprey, herons, egrets, and so on. It was warm out, but slightly cool enough for a hoodie. In other words, perfect weather. The sunset was fabulous, as well. We topped the night off with dinner at "Harpoon Henry's," which was a fun outdoorsy place right off the beach. We walked in as the whole entire bar/restaurant was singing "Sweet Caroline."     "Brunch without Borders" at Cuba Libre 07/16/2011
"Brunch without Borders" offers an unlimited delicious small plate menu for brunch on the weekends for $25. Everything was absolutely delicious! I, also, forgot to photograph a few of the dishes!  One of my favorites. Missing: Hot Churro that we devoured. This is a basket of pastries that consisted of a churro, amazing banana bread, guava pastry, and an orange ginger muffin. It came with mango butter and guava jam.  NOM NOM. Corn pancakes with rum maple syrup, mango butter, and bacon. Holy moses it was delicious.  The beau ordered this octopus salad. I did not try it, but he loved it.  This was my favorite. It was yukon potatoes with short rib with other veggies topped with an egg. WOW.  Salmon and creamcheese sammy with pickles.  Spinach Cheese puffs  caipirinha  Vermont Continued... 07/13/2011
 We hiked Mount Phio! Garden 07/10/2011
My update on how the garden is doing!  Gladiolus  Gladiolus  A type of lilly  Hibiscus  Roma tomatoes  The tomatoes are ripening!      Carolina Gold tomatoes    lavender   My tomato plants had little babies popping up so I planted them in pots, and they have grown wildly!     Jalapenos   Brussel Sprouts  Sweet Basil  Artichoke that I'm letting go to flower.  Slicing my tomatoes for a sandwich  Mint  | LaurenI love cheesy horror movies, warm rainy days, rubbing dogs' bellies, and traveling the world. ArchivesMay 2012 Categories |
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