Yesterday's rainbow

It's SuperRocco!

It's a bird!

It's a plane. 

It's SuperRocco!

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive,

able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

It's SuperRocco!

Have a nice day, everybody!

Grape sauce?

I picked probably 10 or so pounds of grapes that I found on our property.

I picked them from their stems and washed them good.  Then I threw them in a pot and cooked them up all hot and bubbly.  Then I put them through my little ricer (food mill).  The  house smelled wonderful.  It's pretty much the same process I used for my tomatoes.  I just winged it.

I was left with about three quarts of grape sauce.  It's really quite thick!  I think it should make wonderful grape freezer jam.  Now I need to get some sure-jell.

Here's the little ricer (food mill) that I used.  It's now stained purple!  My co-worker bought this for me at a hardware store in town, not long after I got married.  She didn't want me to make lumpy mashed potatoes.  I have yet to use it for that.  In fact, I haven't made mashed taters in years!

I hope you are having a nice day!

Tomato, tomahto

My lovely neighbor gave me a small box of tomatoes a few days ago.  So with those and a few of my ripe ones, yesterday afternoon I got my butt in gear and made some tomato juice.

We *heart* mater juice!

I washed the tomatoes throughly, roughly cut them up, cutting out any bad spots.   Then I cooked them up until they were hot and bubbly and smelled devine.  I ran it all through the ricer, which took out the seeds and skin.  Then I salted the juice to taste and voila-

four and a half quarts of tomato juice!  I threw three in the freezer and one and half in the fridge.

Up next-grape juice!

Have a nice day, everybody!

Stuff I found in the woods

The woods around our home are so very beautiful.  I really have never appreciated HOW beautiful, but I'm trying to now.

I think this mushroom is very cool!  So cool-I took many pics of it, as you can see.

I only noticed the bug after I uploaded these photos.  I'm so thankful I didn't grab that berry and stuff it in my mouth!

Fungi can be fabulous!

I'm not sure of the name-but here are some pretty little wildflowers.

Here's another wildflower for which I don't know the name.

We have grapes (I call them concord grapes-but I'm not sure that's what they actually are) at the edge of the woods near the road and near our yard!  This is the first year I've noticed them-but they've had to have been here for years.

I eat these seeds and all.  They have such a wonderful flavor.  I think I may make grape freezer jam with them.

Oh, look!  I found this strange man, er-I mean my husband, in the woods too.

I hope you are having a good weekend!

Fun finds

I found.  And then I stole.  Again.

Okay, it's not really stealing if it's from your sister's yard, is it?

Here's a fun find from Goodwill.  I did not steal this-I paid for it, I promise!  I'm not sure what it's supposed to be, but I'm using it as a vase at the moment.

 

The same goes for this ducky!



This zinnia broke off near the flower.  I was not throwing it out!

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend to those in the US.  Everybody else-just have a wonderful weekend!

September 1st

Harvesting from my little garden is fun.  I shared and that was fun too!

I took this photo of a clock tower with my ipod while I was waiting for my mom to meet me in town.  Today, I mistakenly discovered that I can zoom in with my ipod.  That knowledge would have come in handy yesterday!

I bought this beautiful retro sheet at Goodwill the other day.  I've had this print before, but the sheet was very thin and worn.  This particular one was, I would say, never used before.  It is very crisp and bright-as if it had been sitting in a closet for the past 30 years.  The only bad thing about it is, it smells slightly of moth balls even after laundering. 

 My friend, Dawnie, just told me she found me a bunch more sheets and I'm excited! 



Here's the stack of my very favorite retro sheets that are in excellent condition.  I won't be making rugs from these ones, but I do want to do something with them.  Right now, I'll just enjoy looking at them on a shelf in my bedroom.



My sewing machine lives on my bunny table in my bedroom.  It doesn't get used that much right now.  But soon-if I'm going to make stuff for my camper, it will! 

Sheet wreath.

Hello, girl!  (I wish I'd have know about that zoom feature when I took this pic!)

Can someone tell me how it is possible that it is September already?

I hope you all have a nice day!