This photo is about as good as it gets this week. We have pretty much been busy trying to get everyone well (whole family has been sick with a cold or something similar). We did get in the yard for awhile on Sunday (the temperature was in the mid-sixties) and played for awhile. I began thinking about a place to have an herb garden next summer. I've read in a couple of sources that the "average" family only needs an area of about 6 feet by 4 feet in order to have the space needed for growing herbs.
The only problem right now is deciding which herbs we would want to take the trouble to plant. I know garlic isn't really an herb (is it?) but I would like to include garlic bulbs in our herb garden. We had a single garlic bulb a few years ago that Benita got from her grandmother in Louisiana that produced wonderful garlic. The bulbs were actually juicy, similar to an onion, and was great in Fettucine Alfredo.
I have a place picked out that I will start working on with leaves and compost.
I have also still been researching soap-making. The original batch (that was very ugly) is cured now and I have been using it. The soap itself is good, but the look and smell aren't there yet. We need to keep looking at others' recipes (is that the right word for a soap concoction?). One place I have found has a lot of good information - Kathy Miller has been making her own various soaps for over 30 years - great pictures.
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