God's green Earth

During the winter I showed you some pics taken by my brilliant middle child.
I think it's about time I showed you some more, don't you?
Good, I thought you'd agree. {snicker}

It's summer in my neck of the woods and since I have two boys, you know what that means. They do a lot of catch-and-release of little critters. They keep them in a bucket or aquarium for a few days, then let 'em go. Here are a couple of this summer's victims scientific observations.

Zucchini

I know how to spell that word "real good." I have to...I need to look up recipes every year.

This year I planted six HILLS of zucchini. Three seed in each hill. Each hill had at least two seeds take off. A couple of them had all three produce a plant.

Yeah. You know what's coming next.

I don't usually have a problem getting rid of our extra zucchini...but then again...I don't usually plant that many at once. You see, ideally I would plant a few seeds in May, then a few more in June.

I lost my head in May and planted the whole packet of seeds.

So I just got back inside from picking this weekend's crop. Nine, count them...NINE more zucchini to add to the six that are already on the countertop. Two of them are biggins.

This past weekend I used one of the two biggins I picked LAST WEEK by cutting it open, scooping it out and frying it in the deep fryer. Dh wasn't crazy about that. It's been ages since I've fried our food, so we're not big on fried food anymore.

Today I used a regular sized one by chopping it up and putting it in the pan of taters and onions. Nobody knew it was there. he.he.he.

It's too hot/humid to bake zucchini bread. Anyway, I did that last year and put about three loaves of bread in the freezer. We didn't eat it before the freezer burn got to it so I won't be doing that again. In years past I've grated up the biggins and put them in the freezer to bake into breads later when it's cool outside, but never used it up before the freezer burn got to it, so I won't be doing that this year. And I've pretty much zucchini'd all my usual victims er, friends.

Does anyone want any zucchini?
Please?

The joke's on me.

Back in May I titled one of my posts "Been MIA lately". Actually, there's only one post in between THAT one and THIS one. That title belongs HERE.
Anyway, the summer is in full swing here. Today we will be wrapping up the last of the summer camps. There were three....count them, three....this year.
Actually, now that I think about it, there have been three for several years now.
The first one is a family camping vacation.
The second one is church camp, where usually only one of my teenagers attended...but this year two of them went.
The third one is Boy Scout camp. Dh goes to camp with the boys--and I miss having him here, but they really like that he's there...so it's a trade off. That's where they've been all week and I expect them home any minute. With laundry. And stories. Dd and I didn't get to do nearly enough girly stuff together. We spent one entire afternoon at the 4H project judging. It was even less organized this year than in years past. This is her last year in 4H. She's an adult now.
If anyone still reads this blog, I'm sorry that it's been so dry lately.
More updates later. TTFN