Veggies, Meat Grinder, Jewelry & Seed Catalog!

 I bought 10 pounds of potatoes and made up some twice baked potatoes!  Yum!  Had some for a meal and stuck some in the freezer.  Wish I could say I grew them!

This is a tiny butternut squash I did grow.  It was tinier than it looks here I think.  I baked it with a boughten one.  I have not been very successful in growing squash!

This is my Mom's meat grinder that I inherited.  I am so glad to have it as use it to grind up left over chicken, beef or steak to make up sandwiches.

I think I must be the best dressed piano teacher around!  One of my students has been making and giving me jewelry.  Thank you Jocelyn!  I have the sweetest girls taking piano lessons!

I received my Fedco Seed Catalog today.  Three guesses what I will be doing!!  First two don't count!

Someone posted this on facebook!  It about sums up our state right now!!!

This is our front porch and sidewalk.  There are bushes under the snow in front of the railing somewhere!

A path on the deck that "wonderful gardener" shoveled three times so "wonderful furbaby" could go out potty.  It is taller than she is!

The "littles" and their mommy came over one day.  I spread a quilt on the living room floor and we had a picnic  and a treasure hunt in the house.  We had H20 JUICE to drink so that the carpet would not get stained.  I didn't take a picture of us but here is some new artwork for my refrigerator by them!

 Finished knitting a new dish cloth for ourselves!

I got a new book!  What else is a gardener going to do with this much snow except dream and read about gardening!  Have you been doing the same???????

We had a great Christmas and hope all my blogger friends did also!  Below is a video of our Christmas Eve! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CSVFUymmo

Variety of This and That!

No harvest!!!  Meet my two piano students standing in front of my Christmas tree!  Merry Christmas to them!

We had lunch with our first grader, Gracie!  She thought that pizza was sure good!

Time to play!  Too cold to go outside.  If only I could do the splits like that it would help me with my gardening!!!!

A couple ladies came over to quilt.  Ann had made a set of these beautiful pillow cases!!

We had some couples over for coffee and dessert after our church Christmas cantata.  I found these cute napkins to set the table with.  If only this was true!!!!!

My "Wonderful Gardener" is shoveling a path for our furbaby to go out to "potty"!  Not spoiled one bit!  

What we don't do for our dogs!

I think this means I can start my "armchair gardening"!  I have received one seed catalog in the mail so far.  I'll be back after the holidays!  Enjoy yours!!!! 

Is It Warm Enough to Garden??

Would you go outside to garden???????

I have been picking greens from my cold frame all along.  Today I picked a few but they were small and looked so cold and hurt!  Maybe even a little frosted.  I about froze my fingers off so have decided that I will be buying lettuce and spinach from the store for awhile!  I am a wimpy gardener but think I did well to not buy until December from the store!!!

I took Coco for a walk one nice day and a lady was bagging up leaves!  Aha!!!  I asked her if I could have a couple bags and dragged them home and put them in the garage.  Now I have some leaves to add to my compost pile next spring!

Made "Wonderful Gardener" a raspberry pie from the raspberries he had picked last summer!

My two piano students are wonderful!  The youngest made me this card and brought to me last week.

On the inside it said, "Dear Mrs, nancy,  I hope you have a great cristmas. I enjoy you take en your time to help me.  I love you like if you were in my family but you are a part of my family.  Yours Truely, Jocelyn.   Wasn't that sweet!!!  I tried to copy it like she printed it.  I am not related so not sure how she thought I was a part of her family but thought the card was precious!

Sue, Melissa and I went to see the Nutcracker on Wednesday night.  Then I had my Christmas/Winter band concert last night so it has been a busy week.  I want to leave you with a video to watch if you haven't seen it that I thought was so neat!   I hope you like it!  Enjoy!!!!!

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/12/99867-u-s-air-force-band-goes-flash-mob-smithsonian-delight-visitors/

Is Anyone Ready for Spring Yet?????

Not much gardening going on here this time of year!  I went out to get some greens for my salad this morning, cleaned up the doggie do and put the left over coffee and coffee grounds on one of my blueberry bushes!  It was COLD!  About 30 degrees at noon.  I am ready for spring!

I received this nice labeler for one of my birthday gifts.  Now there should be no excuse not to have my garden notebooks organized!

Wishing you all a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!  I thank God for my many blessings.  Stay warm!  Spring isn't that far off!

Harvest,Frost, Jelly & Ice Cream Cake

My harvest is kale and lettuces.  That will be all I will get from my garden now until next spring!

I am back from vacation and my lettuces in the cold frames live on!!  We got a frost the night before we left and I didn't expect it so didn't put the covers on!  And there was no one to put them on while I was gone.  I lucked out and still have my lettuces!

This is another little area I have planted.  I put a clear plastic box over this area with a brick to hold it down!

This is the Swiss Chard that I have not done anything with.  Most of it lives on so far and I haven't covered it.

I don't cover the Kale either and so far so good!

And a patch of Parsley that doesn't get covered!  We received a little snow late this afternoon and lake effect snow is forecast for tonight!

This is blackberry juice that I froze from our blackberries in our yard this summer to make blackberry jelly.

This is the blackberry jelly made up from the blackberry juice!

We got a lot of laughs out of this one!  I requested an ice cream cake for my birthday!  Love ice cream!  No one told us that we should get the cake out of the freezer a little ahead of time!  It was so hard to cut.  This is Sue holding it up with the knife and Bob with his hands under it in case it slipped off the knife!  The cake was delicious!