Happy Birthday Ruby!!!

Last week my husband and I celebrated our puppy's first birthday.  She loved her birthday gift...a giant rawhide.

I even made her a special cake, which she loved.

Another Acorn Squash Recipe

At the fruit market the other day I picked up these beautiful acorn squashes.  I wanted to make something a little different than acorn squash with brown sugar and butter.  I searched allrecipes.com and found this recipe.  I did a few modifications.

 I added chopped baby bella mushrooms and used brown rice instead of wild rice and dried cranberries instead of fresh cranberries.  I also used only a tablespoon of brown sugar.  I didn't want it to be too sweet, which it wasn't.

It was actually pretty good!

Pumpkin Carving Time

My husband and I carved our pumpkins today.  We let our dog Ruby carve one too.  She chose to do a self portrait.

Next year we grow our own pumpkins!

Holy Jalapeno!

Now that's a lot of jalapenos.  Any ideas on what I should do with them?

FREEZE WARNING

We got our first freeze warning of the fall season.

Time to bring the lemon tree inside.

Garden Journal

 So I was looking at my notes on my garden from this past season and I thought to myself there needs to be a better way.  I pulled out my laptop and began creating pages to organize my notes.  I printed it out, created a cute cover and headed over to my local office supply store.  There I had all my pages spiral bounded.  

I thought other gardeners would like a journal like this so I'm making some to sell on Etsy.

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