Local Beauty

Some pictures from a walk along the mighty (and muddy) Red River.

Amazing book...have you read it? I highly recommend it. It really has changed my mind on a lot of things regarding the food we eat. In fact I'm just about to order my own cheese making kit! My husband thinks I'm nuts. He actually asked me why can't you just buy stuff like everyone else? Ha! Never thought I would hear those words come out of his mouth!! :) Anyway, I'll let you know how it goes...

Peas Please

We finally made it to the farmer's market early enough to snag some peas. They were amazing steamed for just a couple minutes with some fresh mint from the garden - a classic combo, but a first time for me. Definitely not the last!

pretend living on the farm

We've been enjoying back-to-back family reunions around here. At the first one (in my home town) we got to pretend we lived on a farm! We rented a house on a small farm just outside of town. I never thought I would say it, but it was really nice. Now I think I want chickens.

P.S. Sadly, my city girl Sydney thought we were staying at the zoo. Guess I've got some work to do.

against my better judgement

Hope you all had an amazing 4th of July. Especially you my friend!

Slowing Down Summer - Day 2

Slowing down Summer

Hello out there! Man I stink at this blogging thing lately! I really thought Summer would be easy to keep up with it, but it's so not. I think the next week or two I'm going to try to just post pictures with a sentence or two of what we are up to. I'm trying to not let the Summer get away from us - but it obviously has...how can it be July??? Anyway, hope you can check back to see what we are up to. If all goes according to plan, it won't be much! :)

So, to kick it all off - I've been doing a lot of sitting here. (We also made the patio you see under the pool. It's a big space right at the bottom of the steps to our deck. Way too much work, but we are loving it!)