I haven’t blogged about the Pickle Patch lately, and the perfect ending for the harvesting season was naturally Thanksgiving. It seems that our house is the hub for the holidays. I might be retired, but I am kept busy with my three hobbies: ancestry, blogging, and the pickle patch. During the holidays, these hobbies take […]
Jump to Recipe Dried Okra Nancy’s Beef Jerky Yogurt With memories over time some details fade from your mind and when you try to recall it you might not remember the whole story. I just want to remind the family genealogist the importance of recording events. So the jist of this memory is that some
How many of my readers have an abundance of a certain vegetable in their garden? Take okra for example. This is one vegetable that does well in our Pickle Patch and it seems all the gardens in the community garden. Fellow gardeners are trying to give it away as there is too much of it.
If you have read my other articles about the Pickle Patch, you might wonder how this season is doing. And I would say, we are doing better than last year. One thing we learned was that timing is everything. I still struggle with timing. Have you ever gotten caught up in a different planting zone?
Sometimes my posts will have nothing to do with genealogy, so I think, but it ends up that anything that you do is genealogy. You might not consider it genealogy, but if you are living it, then someday maybe a family member will document it. In my case, I am going to beat my
You have probably been wondering where I was as I have not posted for about a month. With this title, you might think I am going to talk about my love of genealogy, but in this case you would be wrong. Going back to my roots is literally roots or gardening. I have been literally playing
