Strawberries……..yum!!!!
These were picked, cleaned, sliced, canned and put
in the freezer for future use. Over the
next several weeks I’ll have more. Then
it will be time to make maybe syrup, sauce, and cake….etc….
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| To Be Cleaned and Chopped |
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| Strawberry Jam Canned |
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| Flash Freeze |
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| Strawberries cleaned, hulled, cut, placed in food saver bags, and then the freezer. |
My tomato plants are starting to show their fruit;
this is just one of my plants. This
plant has 5 tomatoes in just a little space.
I’ll be looking forward to a hefty harvest this season.
This year, I decided to plant corn in a few
pots/buckets; only about 12 seeds, instead of planting a nice large row in the
garden bed. For the last 3 years I’ve
planted corn in the garden bed and something has happened to it. The first year, we had straight line winds (I
still think it was a small tornado) tear through our entire garden. The second year, strangers helped themselves
to my garden and just destroyed the corn and a few other vegetables. The third year, the weather was just too hot
and burned the corn.
The green pepper plants are looking real healthy
this year, and have blossoms already visible.
Here’s a picture of one.
This year, I also decided to just throw carrot seeds
in and throughout my lettuce and spinach.
This gives me the ability to utilize the space I had dedicated to
carrots for something else, like rutabaga.
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| Carrot seeds were thrown in with the lettuce and spinach. |
Bulldog Man and I installed a rain barrel soaker
system to the straw bales which runs independently with a timer. We decided to do this instead of having the
timer run off the house water.
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On Mother’s Day, Bulldog Man and I took a little
field trip up to Arcadia, Oklahoma. We
drove up the old and new Route 66, and stopped in this well known landmark
known as POPS. This place is not just a landmark;
it’s a soda ranch, restaurant, gas station, and convenience store. The building
has glass walls, glass doors, steel beams and shelves made of glass on the
inside, with all kinds of soda in the old fashioned glass bottles. Without
exaggeration, this place has hundreds of varieties and flavors of soda. Of course Bulldog Man and I couldn’t help ourselves;
we picked up a cardboard six pack carrier, and filled it with several different
types of sodas. I tried the black berry
soda called “Hot Lips” while canning, it wasn’t bad at all.
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| The Outside of POPS from Route 66 |
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| Bottle Formation Outside |
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| As You Walk Up All You See Is Windows of Continuous Rows of Sodas |
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| Had To Try This Since I Love Black Berries |
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| The Round Barn Just Down From POPS |
While in Arcadia, we stopped by the lake to check it
out for a possible place to fish. It was
quite windy on the lake when we stopped to check it out, and the water was full
of red clay. We made a mental note not
do go here for fishing. It’s a lake with
a small park wrapped around, the park may be a nice place to stop with a picnic
lunch. The park itself and the lake didn’t
tickle my fancy for camping or fishing.
Please note, this is just my personal opinion, not that of Arcadia Lake
or the Park.
