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A Strawberry Story: The good. The bad. The nibbled.

Posted on June 29, 2008

My straw­ber­ries are really com­ing along. Squidge and I water them together and talk about how they’re grow­ing and how they’ll soon turn red and juicy. Squidge is a bit of a strawberry-aholic. The girl will eat her­self sick if I let her. I find this pretty funny as my mother will also eat her­self sick on straw­ber­ries so I think she gets this from my Mom.

The other day we found one that was almost ready for pick­ing. Oooh it was excit­ing think­ing we would be nib­bling on a straw­berry we grew our­selves– nom nom!

Yes­ter­day we went out­side to check on our straw­ber­ries and we found this. NIBBLED and not by us!! We think the squir­rels got to it. I’m a bit bummed out at this turn of events. BAH! I won’t let those Squir­rels win *shak­ing my fist in the air*.

Any sug­ges­tions would be greatly appre­ci­ated. I’m also grow­ing these bad boys and I’m keen on actu­ally eat­ing these. damn you SQUIRRELS!!

This after­noon after a quick inter­net search I’ll be going to the gar­den cen­ter to find some anti-squirrel devices.

Also THANK YOU so much for the love on my last post. I don’t know if I’m just hor­monal but I got a tad bit weepy read­ing the com­ments. I’ve stuck to track­ing every­thing I eat and that has been an eye opener. Snack and nib­ble hoooo boy do did I do that a lot. I’m hop­ing the key is just being aware what I put in my gob! I’m also try­ing to eat more pro­tein and cut down on my carbs, not sur­pris­ing I’m a big carb junkie! I will keep you all posted on how that goes. I’m also off to a local ceme­tery a bit later to take some pho­tographs for this months Three Cor­ners project.

Squidge’s straw­berry addiction.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Peek–

Posted on February 29, 2008

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into my Aunt Liliana’s work room (should I call it a stu­dio as most blog­gers do?).  She has 2 indus­trial sewing machines, a serger and var­i­ous other bits and bobs.  I’d love to have the space she has!

She also has this lit­tle guy– her grand­son Abe, isn’t he the cuties thing you’ve ever seen?!??!! 

Squidge thought he was pretty fab too.

Toy

Posted on February 27, 2008

While I was in the US last week I did a lit­tle shop­ping.  Most of the shop­ping involved get­ting equipped for our ski trip but I did man­age to stop in at Williams-Sonoma.  I picked up this lit­tle bad boy and I’m excited beyond words!!  I’m going to use it to make an apple pie Saturday. 

Innit just the pur­di­est thing you ever did see??  My pure glee in this gad­get is a sure sign that I really am get­ting more and more domes­tic by the day!  I also picked up some sil­i­cone cup­cake cups– the ones with the silly feet are my favorites.

I’m look­ing for­ward to bak­ing w/ Squidge in a cou­ple of months. 

Yes­ter­day we went to Cheshire Oaks and they have some fab kitchen shops, includ­ing a Le Creuset shop.  I didn’t buy any­thing from there but I’m fairly cer­tain the staff had to mop up after my trail of drool– I could have done some seri­ous dam­age to my Wal’s credit card in there!

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