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What does life give you?

My life has been giving me all sorts of things lately which has kept me pretty busy. (And the lack of a working computer has not helped with my renewed blogging efforts.)

Life gave me apples:

I had never before canned anything and it was an adventure. I definitely learned a lot and in the coming weeks I was very glad that I had been given this "learning opportunity".

Little did I know that life was about to give me a lot of peaches! A 5 gallon bucket overflowing with peaches. My kitchen looked like this for an entire week while I made freezer jam and cooked jam and jello jam. I bottled peaches and froze peaches. It was crazy!

I am happy to report that my counter is now free of peaches and my husband and I have enjoyed some wonderful peach jam.

It's been awhile...

I have been really bad at blogging. I blame lots of things and I managed to convince myself that one of these days I would get up the motivation to create a new blog. Well it still hasn't happened and so this one's for you Gina!

So much has happened since November. I've now been married for over 6 months! Time goes by so fast. And summer is wrapping up which makes gives me mixed emotions. I LOVE autumn and the changing leaves (and my birthday), but I will wish that I spent one more day sitting in the sun and being so hot I could barely stand it. I hope there are a few more ridiculously sweaty days ahead.

David gave me a garden for Mother's Day. He built a cute little wooden box on our "patio."

We planted some plants from Lowe's: a cucumber, a red tomato, a yellow tomato, and a green bell pepper, and some plants that I got for free: a pepper and 3 tomatoes of unknown variety.

 It proceeded to grow like the jungle. On multiple occasions I went "pruning" or cutting off branches that didn't look important just so we could keep track of what was growing. The cucumber on the left started blooming and there were baby cucumbers all over the place.

Small bell peppers started popping up and I was getting really excited about it. The interesting thing was that the free plants seemed to be doing just as good (or better) than the Lowe's plants. As time went on this became even more apparent.

Tomato Harvest

This is our "harvest" from last week. Don't be decived by the apparent large size of the tomatoes, the largest was not even as big as your average cherry tomato. But they do taste good.

Here's a wedding picture to make this post less depressing. I still like gardening and I still really like food. Although David and I are starting a "wellness challenge" this week so we'll see how that goes. I also want a new name for my blog. Any ideas?