God Bless America

And Happy Memorial Day!

 

I made this quilt a few years back.  I love it, and display it year-round. 

Because we’ve just been gone for two weeks, Mike and I had no desire to go anywhere this weekend.  So, instead, we spent the three day weekend watching movies - “John Adams,” “Ben-Hur,” and “Napolean Dynamite”- cooking up all the delicious produce we got at the Vallejo Farmer’s Market on Saturday, reading, surfing the net, and gardening.

Speaking of gardening, here’s an update on my little Square Foot Gardens.  Eensy broccoli heads are forming:

The Swiss Chard is ready to eat!  As is the kale and a head of red lettuce:

And the corn is really starting to shoot up:

I also did some baking today.  The weather has cooled a bit from the heat of yesterday which just made me want to bake.  I found a big can of pumpkin in the pantry so, even though it’s summer and not fall, I chose to make a couple of decidedly fall-like treats: pumpkin bread (with cranberries) and pumpkin pie (sans crust because crust is just too much trouble and Mike doesn’t care if there’s a crust or not).

Here’s the bread, just about done:

Oh, and even though I’m vegan now, I used some of these today:

Sometimes you just gotta have a treat.

Hope your weekend was a much fun as mine!