Sew Miss Oz

There are those times that I think my family sadly deserves some homemade cookies, or maybe it is me who craves the sweet taste of homemade cookies These I made are made with my base recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but I used 1 cup of mini Reeses pieces and 1 cup of chocolate chips. They were hmmm so very good too! I made them yesterday afternoon, within 24 hours later they are more than half gone. I did bake them in-between sewing so does that count

Besides my vegetable gardening, and my orchard area I decided we needed some flowers and pretty plants for the front porch area. I have 6 pots I put plants and flowers in, along with 2 other garden bedding areas. While I was in the dirt I also thinned some of my bulb plants. I know this is not the perfect timing to thin the bulb plants, but I won’t tell if no one else does I love to sit out on my front porch for lunch or a break at my little table letting my eyes view my orchard, my flowers & plants, just the simple beauty God has provided us.

Here is a picture of 1 of my plants I got in my garden. I really didn’t think I would ever get my garden in this year with all the rain. We had lots of flooding in this area, my mother-in-law’s town was one that was evacuated giving me her extra company here for a few days. My mother-in-law was lucky, her residence set up high enough that it wasn’t one of the homes flooded. As far as my gardening went I bought all my plants, then the rain came! I kept them alive in my husband’s workshop, bringing them out a few hours a day for sun, getting them back inside before more rain. My darling husband had the garden area all tilled ready for my plants when the rain started, when it dried out enough I just had to run a couple of quick easy passes with the tiller to loosen the dirt back up.

I planted 3 cucumber plants (need to put up more pickles & relish), 1 watermelon plant, 1 cantaloupe plant, 1 egg plant, 1 pumpkin (need those jack-o-lanterns), 6 tomato plants, 4 bell pepper plants. All those tomato plants will definitely keep me busy in a few months. I generally can up my tomatoes as just cut tomatoes, then when cooking later will use them to make many different things like spaghetti sauce, hmmm.

I had 3 trees full of these beautiful cherries. I spent several days picking, removing seeds, then canning. We now have canned cherries for cherry pie or cobbler, plus 13 jars of cherry preserves. Really there was no way I could cover 3 very full trees by myself, nor could our family eat these many cherries, so I called in neighbors to share these babies with. These cherries are tart, therefore make up great canned cherries with a little sugar and/or Splenda. Why is this on my sewing blog, well do you know how much time they took away from my sewing time? I’m trying to improve on my picture taking skills, along with my editing in Paint Shop; what do you think of my cherry tree picture? I have a few more posts of things I am doing, along with some sewing I have been squeezing in with my summer break from school!