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! |
