Shelby

What a lovely way to phrase it. I wholeheartedly second this. Best wishes and drink some champagne for us!

I do too...not always, but sometimes. I always tell Rotuts to avert his eyes when I've included anything like that

Awesome! (that's my second favorite flower)

Yes, I think squash, too. Don't murder them lol!

Salad night

You are very brave.

Gorgeous radishes.

Your garden is definitely not mini! I just do a bit at a time. I weed at least twice a week--should do more. When it starts getting hotter I'll weed every day in the morning. We usually get a frost by mid to late October, too. September is usually nice, but it isn't the same as July and August for tomatoes. I've never tried to grow artichokes. I love to eat 'em...but I can't recall ever seeing the plants around here.

I don't wanna post my pictures after Elaina!! I love your herb garden. I wish I could do something like that here....but I'm too lazy and it gets too hot lol. I spent a few hours yesterday putting up some support fences for my peas and pole beans. I have never planted pole beans and I am just tickled pink with them already--even if they don't make a single bean lol. I was done with the fences around oh 11:30 or so. Then I weeded for a while and then went back inside. Around 5 p.m. I went back out to make sure the fences were doing ok. The beans had already wrapped themselves around the supports! I was blown away (yes, I am easily entertained lol). If I had been sitting outside I could have seen them do it. Anyway, I thought it was neat. Volunteer cilantro and dill are all over. I sure wish they wouldn't go to seed so quickly. Onions Peas I planted waaaaaay to many cucumbers I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Okra are coming up well--I have a lot of those, too. Two eggplants Collards Pepper patch Brussels sprouts. Excuse the white powder on everything--Sevin dust for bugs. OH and the red powder is ground up dried hot peppers to keep the rabbits off. Seems to be working! Lettuce patch I'm not showing the tomatoes...they do seem to be perking up a bit. Ronnie bought about 40 more plants from someone yesterday for $1 a piece. They are BIG and are needing to be planted. I'm just waiting a bit to see how many of ours pull through. So, we will have somewhere between 40 and 90 'maters. But they will be late...hopefully they grow fast and catch up. Also not showing watermelon, cantaloupe and lots of zucchini and yellow squash. And, over the top of our new septic system, I threw the pumpkins from last year so I have a huge pumpkin patch going That's the late spring update from Shelby's place

It must be tough stuff, Andie, to withstand that earthquake! I've literally only found one chip in a bowl.

Ok, I couldn't take it. I just dug through all the china. As much as I think the one bowl says 66-7, the others say either 44-6 or 44-7. That seems more likely. Platter Bowl--just like the first one I posted So strange.

Thank you! Now I'm double interested to find out more about them. I'm going to look at the backs of more of them to make sure, but I'm pretty sure that the numbers are 66-7.....but that wouldn't make sense like you said with them quitting earlier than that. The mystery deepens.

No! Very interesting! Thank you so much. So, if I'm reading the chart right, my dishes were made in 1966 in the month of July? We honestly thought these were a lot older than that.

Yes, yes you did The bowls are the perfect size for a little scoop or two

I've been on a pickled egg kick and have been using some pickled beet juice in the process.

Sandwiches on homemade buns with large amounts of lettuce from the garden. This all came about because I had leftover gravy from fried chicken night that I wanted to dip french fries in.

My mom came for a couple of days and brought the china Some of the pieces are stamped! Odd to me that they all aren't stamped but anyway it allowed us to look them up. We ended up keeping the set. She kept a couple of plates and the rest is in my china cabinet. So, here's what it is: Thanks again for all the help.

Her's is the only recipe I use for this kind of cookie. SO good. Haven't made them in quite some time. Thanks for the reminder.

I love ice cream. All kinds. Really, I can't have it in the house or I eat it all. Quickly. Like a whole Ben and Jerry's by myself. I couldn't take it anymore. I had to have ice cream, so I threw my bowl in the freezer and used Lebovitz's Perfect Scoop to find a recipe. I wanted something simple so I made plain vanilla. I shouldn't have done this because I am now going to make another batch....and then probably another. I also made a wonderful hot fudge sauce for the top. I have a lot of that left over so, dang it, I have to make more ice cream. I forgot to take a picture last night, so in the interest of documentation, I forced myself to have another bowl this morning.

Stunning, Elaina!

Anna, I think your alfredo looks delicious. I would happily dig into that! Gorgeous ribs, David Kay, the steak looks to die for but it's the tomatoes that have me going. I hope they tasted as good as they look (as I look at the pouring rain outside once again drowning my 'mater plants) Ribs, collards from the garden, breaded tomatoes and mac and cheese

Oh yeah, can't beat fresh trout.

I dunno...something American like that may seem exotic to them. I'm sure between everyone here we can come up with some fun/interesting/new to them things that will knock their socks off

OH WOW. I've never tasted any lamb parts except for the chops. I just recently found that I like it. I'd have loved to taste all of the innards I'm glad your husband was brave and tried it. What did the intestine taste like? Looks sort of chewy?

I found two more frozen bags of Silver Queen corn that I had hidden from myself so we had to have fried chicken and taters to go with it