Rhutabega and Kohlrabi

A four gallon bucket full of Rhutabega's and Kohlrabi.  Will prep them and cook them for dinner tomorrow night.

Rhutabega

It was about the size of a large grapefruit.

Rhutabega and Kohlrabi

My garden yeilded about a half dozen of each of these, not much but considering how horribly wet our growing season was I'm just tickled to get this, and they are HUGE!

Hillbilly Holler Gets a Paint Job!

Hosta's

Fall in Iowa

The clouds were really wild looking when I took this photo, the wind turbines were a nice contrast to the soy beans.

Basket and Vines

A shot of my compost bin, this old slat basket has been propped on the post for years, this year it had vines growing in and around it.

Brown Beef Slices in Au Jus

We browned the meat slices before adding to the jars, added water to the drippings in the pan and then added the juice to the jars.  These will be processed for 75 minutes at 10 pounds of pressure (I'm below 1000 ft).  Can't wait to have a French Dip with Au Jus sandwich!

Busy Bee

Angel

Angel in my wet studio, I was singing Ava Maria to her in latin of course.

More Cheese Please

Pepper begging for cheese.

Rhutabega Blossoms

Rhutabega blossoms, my rhutabega's wintered over and are now blooming, they smell really sweet and quite similar to honeysuckle.

Violets

Clara on the Last Depression

I have to admit I LOVE Clara!

North Garden Planted

John tilled the north garden for the second time in 24 hours this morning, it is now two thirds planted.  I chose to plant mainly cold/cole crops in the north garden this year, later this spring I'll plant tomatoes in the remaining area.  So far I've planted rhutabega's, beets, carrots, purple and green kolrhabi, and red kale.  Can't wait for the greens to start popping up ;-)  We put up the fence, replacing parts of it that was damaged, and are now calling it a night.

He has Risen!

He has Risen!

Image Transfer Class

I'm teaching an Image Transfer Class at the Fisher Art Center, Marshalltown Iowa, this coming Saturday.  I've been making samples for the class.  This particular book is about my garden!

Watercolors over Ink, Rives BFK Paper
6x30 inches

Pineapples

Went to Aldi's tonight they had pineapples on sale for $1.49 each.  I'm planning to put up another batch of pineapple sauce.

Spring!

I spent 15 minutes or so outside picking up trash out of the front and side yards, it was great to be out in the sun.  Parts of my yard are still wet, as in mud hole wet, the front yard, however, is drying out nicely.  Looks like it's going to be a beautiful week, am hoping my one garden spot is dry and warm enough by the weekend to put in some cold crops.

Weight

Trying to figure out why I'm over weight, after watching the Nightline show last night - bashing fat people - I added up what I eat and drink in a day and I'm coming in right at or under 1400 calories. I just looked up on the fat caculator http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm  and it tells me I need to consume around 1984 calories a day to lose weight and 2156 to maintain my current weight. 

So what gives?