GARDENING'S HI'S AND LOW'S

My first try at raising parsips turned out very well and I'm finding various ways of using them.  Holly has been looking for good recipes also.  The weather has turned cold - freezing at night in fact, so the last of the fruits and veggies are being retrieved.  I had a great crop of cucs to bottle and eat fresh, the eggplants produced well and we're using them up.  When
Holly came over yesterday to help me reorganize and clean out the storage room I sent home with her another box of fruits and vegetables.

The beets were a bust this year!  I was hoping to do at least a dozen jars of pickled beets, but alas they didn't develop like in past years.  Brent gave me a lug of tomatoes to make chili sauce and since I hadn't made any since dad died and I was down to my last bottle so I made a lot more (Ryan loves it as hot as Mary does).  She helped me hang up the collage I did for Rowan, then we continued cleaning out and reorganizing the storage room.  We know that Rebecca is going to be soooooo happy that we found her beautiful white heels and they will be saved for her when she comes to take the box home with her.

Rachel's cute family has stayed here since Friday and it's been fun to meet them.  Her parents, Rob and Kim, brought daughters  Melissa and Jessica and granddaughter, Ava with them. I made a delicious dessert for them to try Fri. night and they'll be leaving for Lehi this afternoon with a box of Zebra tomatoes (some of Holly's favorites).

Finally getting a handle on the new computer and got it to recognize my printer so I could continue printing the photos I needed to finish my scrapbook for last year.