Monthly Archives: August 2009

Carrots!

I grew these carrots  especially for this Indian Carrot Salad by Jamie Oliver when I saw it last year on Jamie at Home. I just hope I have enough carrots for it.  These carrots also inspired this particular illustration: I am always tickled by the orange interior of purple carrots.

Veggie explosion 2009

Okay, so maybe “explosion” is not the most apropriate descriptor for a bean, a carrot and three tomatoes, but I have a feeling this is about as much as I am going to get this year.  Which is cool. It’s a learning experience right? And I have learned that my garden is in the wrong [...]

A WEEKEND OF PIG

I found another set of flute playing pig salt and pepper shakers yesterday (the guys with the yellow flutes.) I thought it was so odd. They look like they are from different molds as my original pigs have sharper sculpted features. Nothing on the bottom to indicate origin although I am going guess that they [...]