I am drowning in produce from my garden. This year, thus far, I have canned:
14 quarts dill cucumber spears (turned out well)
12 quarts dill cucumber coins (these don’t count though since they turned out disgustingly mushy- no wonder all the recipes say spears. Now I know.)
24 quarts of tomatoes- and many, many more ripening on [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Can can (can)
Posted in God is love, gardening on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things I don’t like my 3-year-old to say…
Posted in Motherhood on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hold still, Mama! I’m just trying to touch your eardrum!
A Good Day
Posted in Motherhood, family, work on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today it is pouring down rain, and thundering, with the lights blinking off and on now and then. Thank goodness this laptop runs for a while on battery power. Eli is asleep in his crib, for his second nap of the day even though it’s only noon. …Scratch that, awake again already.
Yesterday was one of [...]
How bizarre
Posted in work on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A patient on our unit recently was misdiagnosed. The ER doc had him tentatively diagnosed as having MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterial infection which is now so common that we see several cases a month, even in my tiny hospital unit.
Guess what he really had? It was a once-common, now only rarely seen childhood disease. CHICKEN [...]
