My Mother’s Day Flowers!
terilyn
5 years ago
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Comments (1)You were busy! It all sounds wonderful. It is amazing how far you have come in one year. I think you're a natural gardener. (Must be your mom's genes!!) Perhaps the birds planted the lemon balm for you. I love lemon balm. There is a huge one in my garden and I just dug up a little volunteer out of the path a couple of weeks ago and planted it in another bed. I thought lemon balm would reseed everywhere, but it hasn't. I mulch everything quite heavily, so I don't get as many volunteers as I used to. We had trouble keeping stuff alive around our pool when we lived in Fort Worth. For a while, we had a pool service company and they were part of the problem. Even though they placed a tarp over the pool when they applied chemicals (to keep the fumes from rising up too quickly and hitting the plants?), they still killed ALL my plants (and I had a lot) around the pool twice. We not only started doing pool maintenance ourselves after that, but also switched from chlorine to Baquacil. I assume the little one is growing well also and hope your sweet wife is perhaps getting a little more sleep. Remind that baby boy to buy his mommy a Mother's Day Gift! (Gotta train them right!) Dawn...See MoreDay 9,My House in August, flowers
Comments (30)Here's a few of my favorite outdoor flowers. Y2K Miniature rose planted while living on the base here. It did not survive its second winter. I love yellow roses! A Yokohama tulip from the same garden. I love peachy coral tulips! Who could be sad when looking at a little viola? I love purple-edged yellow violas! A little wren house, on a 5' pole with a vine (?) growing up, around, over, and through it. I covered the metal pole with a 5" wide sleeve of chicken wire to give the vine a place to cling. I love sweet little vines! And huge Clematis vines! And Morning Glory vines! And Thumbergia vines! And Moonflower vines! And Grape vines! Marquee Moon daylily. It's fragrant! I love fragrant yellow daylilies! Irises, beaten down by a hard rain. Each bloom was bigger than my two hands together. Even on the ground they were beautiful. And yes; I love yellow irises! I guess you can tell I love "yellow!"...See MoreMother’s Day Cooking Q&A
Comments (11)My mother was an awful cook. She fried almost everything, yet she was slender as were my sister and I. She had a 5-6 dish rotation: smothered steak (fried round steak cooked in brown gravy until tender-ish); fried pork chops; fried chicken; fried frozen shrimp on Friday nights (we are Protestant but she served fish on Friday); over-cooked, shoe-leather tough roast on Sunday; and at some point every couple of weeks, the worst spaghetti you’ve ever tasted. There was no such thing as a casserole. Green salads were rare to non-existent. I never could understand the penchant people had for mac and cheese when I was growing up. Here is Mother’s recipe: Cook elbow macaroni until it is flabby. Drain and put in a rectangular baking dish. Beat 2 eggs. Add milk. Pour over macaroni. Top with a few slices of very mild cheddar cheese. Bake until the macaroni is hard again. We had an abundance of vegetables because we had a huge garden (couple of acres) that we shared with the people who worked for Daddy. Mother did not can food, but she froze a lot of vegetables. I ate a lot of fresh tomatoes growing up. We had them for every meal, including breakfast, when they were in season. I would sneak into the garden, find a good one and eat it like an apple! Then there was fried okra; fried field corn (corn cut off the cob and cooked in a skillet with butter or bacon drippings); pole beans; yellow squash; cucumbers, butter beans (harvested when they were tiny) and crowder peas. For such a lousy cook, Mother had very high standards. Vegetables had to be small and tender. Tomatoes had to be vine-ripened unless they were being used for fried green tomatoes, in which case they had to be truly green and hard. Fruit had to be unblemished. We had no processed foods ever. I didn’t know what American cheese was until I was 23. It wasn’t that Mother was purposefully a healthy eater. She just didn’t like the taste processed foods. Mother never baked a cake from scratch, except a coconut cake at Christmas. The coconut had to be fresh (as in ”first you buy a coconut…”) and finely grated by her own hand. Her pie crusts were always from scratch and always flaky and tender. She had 2 pies she made, lemon meringue and chocolate. Biscuits and cornbread were made without a recipe and were always perfect. Mother’s best dishes were her potato salad and her cornbread dressing. I can’t make either one to save my soul. My sister comes really close on the cornbread dressing. Mother was over 90 when she died. She was living by herself in her own home, doing her own housework and cooking her own meals (still nothing processed). She did the light portions of her own yardwork but hired a really good-looking, very buff young man to do the heavy lifting and mowing. We teased her that she found things that needed doing just to get him to come to the house! I suppose my ”rebellion” is not cooking like Mother did. But I wouldn’t mind having her yard man mow my grass. 😉 ETA: My sister just sent me these pictures of Mom. She may have been a lousy cook, but she went some interesting places!...See MoreHappy Mother’s Day!
Comments (12)Thank you,Eld and to all you mothers on KT, have a wonderful day. Hopefully, the last two days of rain will clear up enough to have our mothers day dinner at my daughter's new backyard entertainment area....See MoreAnglophilia
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