Oww! That makes me wince just to look at it. I have toe trouble in that I seem to break them fairly often as I am rather klutzty. The big toe it the worst! Brings tears to my eyes remembering. Hope you got an ice pack on it asap and sat with your foot up. Best relief, I know from experience.
We are new to the area so also try to go by the locals rather than the weather. This is our third spring here and we are finding it difficult to decide when to plant.
The people we bought the house from pointed to one of the mountains and said when the snow is off that mountain you can...
Have you eaten Borscht? It is a beet soup.
I don't do real well with recipes as I never follow them - they are a guideline and I change them to suit me and what I happen to have in the kitchen at the time. But here is the idea of Borscht.
I make a vegetable soup with carrots, cabbage...
We had a great day yesterday for working in the yard - sunny and it went to 17C. :thumbsup :coolsun :tools Then over night was awaken by the rain on the patio roof - it was pounding hard. :hide THEN this morning got up to 2" of white stuff on the lawn!!! GRRR! :somad Only a couple...
I made Swedish Thin Bread and posted the recipe and how to on my blog. :drool
http://mountaingardengleanings.blogspot.com/2011/04/swedish-thin-bread.html
Maybe they're in the know and we're missing summer this year! :hide :barnie :idunno
Stranger things have happened with all the crazy weather most people seem to be having. :hu
My annual batch of Hot Cross Buns. :drool If you don't like the ones from the store, these are for you - soft and moist and stay that way for days. (although they never last for days here)
We'll probably go through two batches this year.
Recipe on my blog...
1. You can plant shrubs to hide it.
2. Make a mound of dirt around it so it looks like a small hill.
3. Stack ties, or large logs aoround it like a wall and plant small ground cover plants to cascade down the side of the wall.
4. Move the water valve from the bottom to spill out the top and...