I agree! impressive!!

We're still planning on going to the cousins on Christmas. I'm bringing apple pie. I got holly and ivy cookie cutters and some natural food coloring to kind of up my game. I'm growing lemons, herbs and confused roses. the stems haven't grown in since being cut back, but it was warm, so I have blooms right near the crown on little twigs. :D

WOW! Here I was all impressed by my one tray of greens. Yours puts mine to shame.

And, a Merry Christmas to you! And, may your New Year be the best.

Your greens looks really healthy! Are you growing vertically or is it just the pics.....? I love the idea of vertical pans.

@CA Kate z9 I live near a seed company (actually two). And have friends and family that work at both. Between gifts of seed and impulse buys (can you pick me up some....) I have a lot of seed to try out.

@Islay Corbel - my phone and gardenweb don’t like each other. Many things are aggressively unfunctional on this site - including spell check and photo direction. Last time I tried to fix something I ended up kick off GW. And then dealt with nice support staff who kindly insisted that there was no cooking forum. So I use it less than I used to (specifically the garden forums) and live with the wonkiness.

Lovely gardens, agmss, it's so nice to see things green and growing this time of year, isn't it? It finally got cold enough here that my lettuces in the hoop houses gave it up, I should start something inside.

I know what you mean about gardenweb and photos, I have a lot of problems posting pictures. I've been blaming my 10 year old desktop computer still running Windows 7 and my nearly as ancient camera. I know how to use them, though, and because I just hate technology in general I don't want to learn something new, so I guess it's my own fault. It's not that I CAN'T buy new stuff and learn it, I just don't WANT to! I'd rather spend my tiny bit of free time growing something and playing in the dirt...

But not yet. On Thursday Elery's family will be here, so I'm cooking dinner for 16. Today I made cookies, pre-salted the tenderloin and washed holiday tablecloths and napkins. Tomorrow I'll bake rolls, make the mac and cheese for baking Thursday and finish up the cheesecake, pumpkin pie and apple stack cake.

My family will have their "Christmas" here on January 1, so dinner for 12 that day. And then we diet, LOL.

Annie

Well, I'm feeling inspired by the wonkiness LOL

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Looks good!

The photo sideways thing used to happen to me. Randomly happens in my photo files for some odd reason.

I have the usual stuffed shelf. A rotation of a few meaty fast growers---radishes, pea, sunflower. A few herbs--cilanto, (yours looks great), basils, par-cel. So darn slow but a very concetrated flavor. Especially the thai basil.

We are not traveling or visiting so i kept it simple. Oh, i did start a 10/10 each of mesclum and one of just arugula that are doing better than expected. Probably due to the low humidity and cooler temps. I should start more to have a steady supply.

PicoloGato collection looks great!

HappyHolidays!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I should try growing microgreens - I can grow them outdoors this time of year, and so they would not be taking up space inside.

I cooked an ahi tuna steak yesterday (for Christmas Eve) that weighed almost a pound, and so I have about 1/3 of it left over. I might not have bought it if I had noticed that it was $36 a pound, but I think that fish costs a bit more here in the desert. Swordfish was better priced at $25 a pound. The tuna was from Fiji, like the tuna I buy in L.A., and it was sushi grade, which meant that I could cook it rare.

I bought a half young turkey breast to smoke today, and that was not expensive, and it was small enough that we won't have too many leftovers, but if we do, I will freeze half of them. We're also going to smoke some sausage while we are at it. Kevin bought a new electric smoker a few months ago, and it has WiFi capability, so that he can monitor it on his phone from indoors, which is helpful.

We're having a new kitchen table delivered tomorrow, and so we have to move the old table out of the way today, but we have a dining table in the dining room. However, the kitchen table is my main prep space, since I have very limited counter space, and so I won't be doing much prep work once the old table is out of the kitchen. We're going to have to move it into the garage so that Revivals Thrift Store can pick it up. We could possibly sell it for a decent price, but we're not going to be around for that and mainly just want it out of our way. We're donating our old bar and all of the barstools as well, since they are not our taste. We kept them for a couple of years because they came with the house, but now we're definitely ready to get rid of them.

I hope to start painting the upper cabinets next week. We go back to L.A. on Jan 8.

Annie, I feel you! Thankfully I've found a guy who updates/fixes my laptop for the cost of parts!

YAJUST is not in my vocabulary!

New tech is not in my budget at the moment - or rather the new tech I might want is not. I also deeply resent technology being middle aged by the time I set it up, old in a few month and positively ancient in several years.

That said the wonkiness seems to be a gardenweb specific issue and not my jurassic computer.

Tomatoes are setting buds!