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I guess I've answered a question I was going to ask here, as to why my dwarf sunflower heads are closed, rather than opening to expose ripening seeds. A little digging into old receipts tells me that these sunflowers are hybrids. Normally I buy only open-pollinated seeds, but apparently didn't...

I grew one of these a few years ago as a houseplant. When it flowered I dried and saved those blooms. Still have these dried flowers for future medicinal use if needed.

How BEAUTIFUL they all are!!!!!!

There are smooth (short-haired) collies but no smooth shelties. It was my sheltie that had such an aptitude for agility, and many shelties do well at this sport. Herding ability is a bit diluted in collies due to blood of setters and borzois added in early on in breed development. I had...

We also had collies, a sequence of 4 over the years, and I added a sheltie at one point (Mabel's predecessor). I got that a lot, people asking if little Tippi was a puppy or a grown-up mini version of her collie cohort. Looking over old videos I was reminded how many tricks Tippi knew; she had...

My sheltie would love this.

Tulsi tea this AM (black tea with a variety of spices, heavy on the cloves). Eating a recipe introduced to me years ago by a long deceased friend - a mix of egg, tomatoes, butter, and cheddar cheese cooked up in a skillet. This used up a tiny portion of the endless supply of tomatoes coming...

Embrace the chickadees and their happy little chirps!

This is great! (and true)

Ernest Tubb and Red Foley - love that old-timey music, especially now that I'm an old-timer. Thanks for this old gem.

Organic butter is better. Margarine is just plain bad for you. I buy almost no processed food from large companies these days. I envy you your homemade butter from the farmers market, Marie. I buy raw milk (unpasturized, unhomogenized, right out of the cow!) and organic cheese from people at...

Looks very good. What's in it?

You and those little girls have such fun together!

What is the plant in your top photo? It's very cool looking.

That sounds like a version of ratatouille, which is slices of summer squash and zucchini cooked with fresh tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and butter. I usually make a batch of this, sometimes adding cooked macaroni or shells. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find zucchinis this year. When my yellow...

The past few years I've bought garlic braids and hung them in my cellar (which is dry and cool). They keep for about a year that way, but I also pickle a jar of cloves from one of the braids and keep this jar in the fridge. The pickled garlic outlasts the hanging braids by another year.

My own electric fences were all battery powered, in some places a single strand of wire, and they were all it took to contain our horses. Neighbors with cattle needed house current or car battery power to keep their cattle in. Deer, on the other hand, would simply jump over electric fences...

Oddly enough, I have become so maxed out on summer squash prepared in my usual way (sliced and microwaved with butter) that I despaired of ever using up the suddenly mass-producing crop. It doesn't freeze especially well either. Then yesterday I watched a couple videos on how to fry squash...

Welcome from the other end of the country (Vermont)!

Quince! That's another ingredient I need to get. Frog Hollow has them. Apples, raisins both brown and golden, and candied lemon and orange rinds are readily available.