Crowing

Our chicks are now 12 weeks old. (They are as many weeks old as I am pregnant; isn’t that handy?) They look like chickens. They’re very pretty. I’m still working on the pictures, promise.
Anyway, we’ve heard feeble teenage crowing attempts for weeks. It sounds like a chicken with a head cold. “Er…er…ERRRRRR!” And we don’t [...]

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Curried Sprouted Lentils with Ginger & Garlic Cilantro Sauce

Oh, wow. I’ve found my newest curry love:
Curried Sprouted Lentils with a Ginger and Garlic Cilantro Sauce
The curry is so simple and easy, and the sauce….mmmmm….it’s amazing. I already knew I loved cilantro, but this took it up a notch.
Notes:

I used 1/2 sprouted lentils, 1/2 sprouted wheat, as per the recipe, but I found I [...]

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12 Weeks!

I’ve officially been pregnant longer than my last pregnancy (which ended at 11 weeks, 6 days) and it feels really good. Almost as if she knew, Ellery drew me a family portrait this morning; it had Mommy, Daddy, Maya, Ellery, Asher, New Baby, and Winter. Bring on the tissues.
I am feeling so much better. Oh, [...]

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On My Mind

1. Eggs in Toast! We made Eggs in Toast this morning, out of our stored dough from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. (Seriously, easiest bread ever. I like it even better than No Knead Bread. And there’s so much you can do with it!) Skipped the bacon because we didn’t have it. It [...]

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Beans Are IN!

It’s like I forget that I’m still in the first trimester of pregnancy. Until I garden for five minutes; then I remember. But I press on, because I have a goal. And due to the timing of all the planting this first year, we are going to have a cah-razy August and September harvest!
Today I [...]

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11 Weeks, 4 Days – Kicking?

I’m pretty sure I can feel the baby kicking, intermittently, as I sit at the computer. I put my feet up on the first rung of the chair, so my knees are high and as I lean forward to type, I kind of squish up into a ball. This is the same position in which [...]

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Pictures Coming Soon. Ish.

I have so many pictures that I want to post that I will probably picture blog for weeks and weeks.
I’m working on getting all of my pictures downloaded to SmugMug. Then, between that and our backup external hard drive, I will feel comfortable enough to delete the pictures on my desktop hard drive to make [...]

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Lots of Stuff Planted

I probably got too much sun on my face today, because I didn’t put suncreen on it and I couldn’t stand my wide-brimmed straw hat after about 30  minutes. (Too hot and muggy. Note to self: get/make washable wide brimmed cotton hat, and sell the awesome but stifling and unwashable straw hat. Any takers? It’s [...]

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Red Raspberry Leaf Tea

I am 11 weeks, 2 days pregnant. There are only four days until the day I passed Winter in my last pregnancy, and I haven’t had a sign of spotting in many weeks. My uterus is easily palpable, and the kids and the hubs are both able to feel the “baby bag” in the mornings. [...]

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Tomatoes and Peppers: Thoughts for Next Year

For next year (tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, eggplants):

Late March was a good time for starting the tomatoes. I initially thought they got too big, and that I should start later, but the biggest ones are doing the best out there. They are already bearing tomatoes for me.
On the other hand, I could easily start later (say, [...]

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