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OLS Week 10

The last week of one local summer. It's been a lot of fun coming up with meals of all local ingredients. For this last week I decided to try something new, Salad Nicoise. The only thing not local was the tuna. Of course, as been the case with most meals, we dug into it before we could get a good photo.

Ahhh......Friday

This week has been quite busy. We're getting ready for fair next week.

I've been doing a lot more photography lately. Trying to get my groove and soaking up info as quick as I can get it. Here are this week's favorites.

OLS Week 7

This week I finally went out and harvested some of our basil on a more grande scale. It's been going gangbusters and I needed to do something with a large quantity. Of course, Pesto!

For dinner this week we had pesto chicken on pasta with a kitchen sink salad.(everything we could think of we through into that salad: eggs, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes....) We had fresh nectarines for dessert.

The fair is coming! The fair is coming!

And although my kids seem to think I'm chicken little, the fair IS coming. And, sooner than they think. Our local fair starts a week from next Tuesday. The kids have things they intend to enter and of course, haven't started on most of them.

C is doing some demo's this year for the first time and she really needs to practice before the day of. H wants to enter some lego creations but he and his dad haven't made it a priority. And of course, I want to enter some mittens, my clapotis from last fall, and some homespun yarn. The yarn on the left is from Merino Top bought from A Swell Yarn Shop. On the right is Blue Faced Leicester, my new favorite fiber to spin, dyed with natural indigo.



Luckily, I've got the yarn done and just need to finish up with these mittens(pattern courtesy Hello Yarn). The yarn for the mittens is from the same batch of homespun I did the hat from. I've completed 1 mitten 4 times. Yes, you read that right, 4 times. My gauge is just off and I was trying to remember back to when I did the hat what needles I used. And because I keep such great notes, er well mental notes, I started with a too small needle and then kept having to rip it out and go up a size. I am making sure that I document the needle size on Ravelry this time. (What would we do without the internet?) And am successfully knitting on size 7. My goal was to finish by today but as you can see, they are still in need of some work. I plan on spending the afternoon working on them if I can keep my eyes open.(:

Tonight we are going to a local minor league baseball game and I'm thinking of bringing them along. I just need to warn my dh to keep an eye out for me so I don't get beamed with a baseball. Because, you know if that happens I'll be crying: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

And they just keep getting older...

It's really hard to let the 7yo become an 8yo. I'd have loved to have kept him at 5, if truth be told. He just keeps on having birthdays.

This last week was a blur-o-birthday for H. I think it's finally out of his system and I would love nothing other to not leave the house for a week except for necessities.

I'm feeling really behind on stuff like laundry, general house cleaning, decluttering, and some projects I've been wanting to get done.

We were able to declutter his room before the influx of birthday booty invaded. It still feels like I've got a lot more to go.

The garden is looking a little tired from all the heat. The tomatoes are really redding up now. The zucchini has still only produced 2 full size zucchinis or would that be zucchini? I'm about ready to harvest my first red bell pepper and some eggplant. I have a bunch of dead heading to do on the "cosmos that ate my garden". Seriously, I have to post a photo of this thing. It was only supposed to get 18inches tall and it's easily 4 feet. I need to do something with some of the butternut squash start that needs to be planted. Maybe I'll just go stick it in the compost pile and let it take over....

Maybe you'll even get another post this week if I don't have to go anywhere....(:

OLS Week 6

With the garden on overload and a birthday this week, our OLS meal was very quick. We had stir fried veggies with egg. Very yummy and very quick.