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.

Cong Hei Fat Choi !!!!

That's Happy Chinese New Year for those of you that don't speak Chinese. Yes, we look for any reason to celebrate around here. We started this tradition just last year. We decorate and have to eat yummy Chinese food with chop sticks (even the rice). If anyone is interested, the 99 cent store sells fortune cookies and almond cookies in the cool Chinese take-out boxes. We had a lot of fun ringing in the year of the Ox.