Deconstruction

 The deconstruction of the shed is about to begin.  We've had the shed since we bought the house and it had developed leaks and had all kinds of things living under and in it so it was time for it to go.  Plus, there was just something about it that really didn't fit in with the house.  Or, I didn't want it to fit with the house.  It was a little too Waldo...

 The new shed is nice, relatively tight (to keep out those looking for a place to sleep for the winter), and more Belfast than Waldo:)  That's Bob still filling it up with lots of good things.

The two ends of the shed are gone and Bob is about ready to start taking up the floor.

 Lunch today was our summer squash with our tomatoes, oregano and parsley with onion and Greek olives and a piece of bread on the side.  It's fun to go out and pick the food, bring it in and cook it for a meal.  There are times when I wish I had planted more and most of the time I'm glad I did amount I did.  Next year we'll definitely do potatoes again with tomatoes and more herbs.  And I think we're going to join a CSA down the street to be sure we get fresh veggies and herbs 10 months out of the year.

 This was Sat night dinner.  Grilled Avocado and fresh faux veal chops from the farm down the road.  The chops were great and the avocado was good but I'm not sure it was worth the effort to grill the avocado or maybe we didn't do it right.  But, it was fun to try.  We've had grilled peaches which were good (idea from Garden and Gun magazine, I thought) but couldn't find it on their website so I linked this Frito Pie Recipe from Garden and Gun instead. It's totally kind of beyond belief and probably could only be thought up by someone south of the Mason Dixon Line.

Summer days and balmy nights is still my favorite cookbook this summer even though it does NOT include the Frito Pie Recipe we're still making a lot of the recipes in it. However, Plenty is running a close second.  Though it is technically a vegetarian cookbook, the author does eat meat and does include meat pairings.

They were haying this field the other day and the pictures just don't do justice to the actual scene.  It was like giants were playing a game of rolling the hay bales or something the way they were scattered around the field.

I took so many pictures trying to get one that captured the picture but wasn't really successful.  They were all picked up today and put away for winter feed.