As a day for remembering our Fathers and all our Father Figures we just want to send out a HUGE thank you for all of the special men in our lives!
Father's Day for us was pretty uneventful. We had a nice visit with our new home teachers and then when they left I got busy making Mike's father's day present ... a banana cream pie! (I'm not a huge fan of bananas but Mike loves them so I thought it was a fitting "not quite a father" father's day gift) I made a crust from vanilla wafers and decided to try out a new recipe for the filling - it was delicious (and super easy)! We're so glad that our friends Dan and Ashley were able to come over and enjoy it with us.
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| Looks tasty - right? I may have made the novice mistake of buying WAY too many bananas. I thought the recipe called for seven bananas, not four and I originally planned on making two and having more friends over but everyone already had other plans. Oh, and we got bananas in our Bountiful Basket on Saturday. I sense that several batches of banana bread will be part of our near future. | | |
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(Don't tell Mike I put his pie on the ground to take a picture of it)
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As promised, here are a few pictures of our garden! Please excuse the little hooligan weeds that refuse to stay out of our designated garden area.
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| Our carrots are finally coming up! They're still to small to see (they're in the row closest to the camera) Hopefully we'll get some tasty food! |
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| What I'm most excited about - STRAWBERRIES!!! Hopefully we'll be able to keep the pesky birds out of them. I can only stand guard and chase them all away for so long. Our neighbor suggested investing in a net - any suggestions? |
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| Someone spiked our lettuce! |
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| Question of the Day: what is this plant? I went out to dump our grass clippings last week and found this little beauty (haha - it's pretty big compared to the rest of our garden). There was the shell of some kind of gourd or squash next to it so maybe it's a volunteer from some kind of discarded produce? Or maybe it's just a monstrous weed! |
Beautiful Pie! and the pictures look great, did you take both or did Mike take one? Your garden is very cute. How fun. Our garden is a wreck this year! As for the strawberries, we have learned that birds don't like reflective tape. You can buy bird tape (basically really reflective foil that you put about) or we also hear they don't like pinwheels. You could try those too. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteOh yea, I'm not sure what that plant is, but it doesn't look like squash family leaves. Check a local nursery (or the college), sometimes they have experts you can show pictures to & they will tell you what the plant is, or what's eating it, etc.
ReplyDeleteI take most all of the pictures for the blog. So yes, I did take these ones :) We found that a bird net and fake snake worked well for us. We decided that the mystery plant was rhubarb - but it accidentally got mowed over by the neighbor - so no rhubarb for us this year! :( bummer ... Thanks for the advice about asking the nursery/college - good thinking!
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