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Happy Sunday!
My flowers and vegetable plants are doing so well this year! This purple sun pot on the back deck has become the favorite of my flower arrangements. I posted a photo shortly after the pot was planted, and I love how the flowers have grown and filled out.
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My first ripe tomatoes of the season. These little guys came from my 4th of July tomato plant. It didn’t quite make the July 4 promise that the name seems to insinuate. But this is about the earliest in the year I have harvested fresh tomatoes from my garden.
The tomatoes are small but, as garden tomatoes usually do, taste amazing. What a treat in my salads this past week.
What caught my eye this week
Eliminating food waste, or at least our personal contribution to the problem, has been a high priority for me. Planning meals has gone a long way to using our perishable foods while they are fresh and delicious. Also, those expiration dates are guidelines; not a magic throw-that-food-out date.
Emmy nominations! We both enjoyed Ted Lasso, The Mandalorian, Mare of Easttown, WandaVision, Hamilton, and The Queen’s Gambit. I also liked The Undoing and, as always, This is Us. It was a strong year for TV, looking through this impressive list. The timing couldn’t have been better, since we were all home anyway.
Random bits of advice to save your life. A positive pregnancy test can equal testicular cancer. Who knew??
Today is National Ice Cream Day! A list of most popular flavors by state. Moose Tracks wins Minnesota with vanilla ice cream, peanut butter cups, and fudge. Me, I like most any ice cream: vanilla bean, chocolate, anything with peanut butter and caramel. It is pretty hard to go wrong!
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Have a wonderful weekend!