Joy of Country Living

Just got back from doing a little grocery shopping at Brookshire’s in Buffalo. I don’t go there often mainly because – in my opinion – they are expensive by comparison, i.e., HEB. For example, one item on today’s list was Club Crackers (David just loves those things) – I usually buy them at Sam’s where [...]

Frozen peach update: It works! What with the peach trees in full bloom figured I better use some of the frozen peaches   from last year – and I wanted to see if they would keep the texture  of  a fresh peach or turn into mush. Put this to the test over the weekend by making some apricot-peach fried pies.   [...]

We went to Dallas last week – what an ordeal ! We had gone to see about buying a ‘new’ car – which we did. A friend (David) had told us about a place that basically sells wholesale but does sell to the public as well. They have an Internet site and sell about 150 [...]

WOW – didn’t know one tree could produce so many plums!! We’ve been picking plums for over a week and there are still more coming. Mind you they’re not very big – but boy are they sweet. We’ve given a lot of them away . . .  hate to see them go to waste – but we’ve still [...]

Sunday afternoon was set aside to work in the garden. However, on my way to the garden I encountered a couple of lizards. It was a pair of those usually cute little green lizards that look somewhat like the Geico gecko – but they were obviously in a major turf dispute and had morphed into [...]