In the Garden: August 2003 Archives

I was visiting Bogie's blog, trying to catch up on some of my reading. Things have been hectic here so I'm several days behind on blogs. I was delighted to discover that she is a gardener. She's farther north than I am, so she's begining to get her gardens ready for winter. I have about a month to go before I start putting the gardens to bed. We'll be having a bridal shower here a week from today, and I want the grounds to look their best, so I've been spending a lot of time weeding, watering, feeding, pruning and generally cleaning up the grounds.

Culinary oddities is another subject I'd like to blog about. My family is particularly fond of a grilled peanut butter sandwich with sweet relish, or what we call "picalilly." A number of people have wrinkled their noses and gone "Eeeeewwwwww" when they heard the combination (Most notably Dear Husband). On the other hand I was reading Pobricito's blog, and I discovered a discussion of pilchards and marmite. There's an awful lot of odd things that human beings are likely to be found eating.

Imagine the guy who discovered that you could eat snails! "Yep....not bad, but they'd be great with some garlic butter!" I figure you had to be hard up to eat snake or octopus or raw fish, too. And spare me tripe or chitlins. Give me apple crisp or cherry cobbler any time!