January 30, 2009

The final hour for the cauliflower

For those of you that are shoveling driveways and bundling up, I'm sorry. We have had a beautiful week and we're actually hoping that it cools off again before we face another long hot summer. Today was about 80 degrees. I mowed the lawn and dead headed the blooming flowers. This fall the kids decided to plant a bunch of seeds. It's Arizona so we don't expect much to grow and don't pay attention to the rules of the planting season. Well...lets just say we could have carved cantaloupe for Halloween and might be having pumpkin seed spitting contests this summer. We even grew cauliflower for the first time and decided to harvest it on Sunday before the crows move in on it. It was delicious! In fact we had such a great weekend. Shea and I ground wheat and made homemade bread and Jam too. Thanks Mom Tanner, we actually made bread and not bricks :) Our dinner conversation had all of us pondering the idea of moving out to the country and living off of the land.





Ready to eat with yummy melted cheese.

5 comments:

Ann said...

Hooray for all of you. The cauliflower is a great success. Sounds to me as though you would all make great farmers. Having a place to grow a garden is the best way to go. Maybe we need to start a commune? I am glad the bread was a success. It won't be long before you can teach me some new tricks.

Tam said...

I am super impressed. I've never known anyone who's actually grown cauliflower. I would have thought it was a week and pulled it a long time ago!

Unknown said...

I was just reading your Chinese New Year celebration - you are so creative! How fun. Will you teach me how to garden one day?

Kim Pedersen said...

JEALOUS!!! I miss the weather so much!! Hooray that you got cauliflower!! I tried and it was a complete failure! So congrats! Looks yummy!!!

Book Girl said...

Kim I am so impressed, you are a woman with many talents. My wheat bread is still used for door stops!