Today's Title Is .... Slice of Reality

I participate in a group called "Today's Title Is". This week we are doing "slice of reality" so my submission is ...... "My Lunch :)"

What can I say. Our lives are dominated by food and I am supposed to be watching what I eat because of hypoglycemia. (My doctor would have a kiniption (sp?) if he saw my lunch!!!!).

So John made the bread and sliced it up very carefully with his electric slicer. Our peach tree had fruit for the first time last summer so we made some freezer jam. We came home from Ohio recently with a lot of strawberries and made the bulk of that into freezer jam last week-end.

We like to buy things as cheaply as possible so John found the strawberry candle on sale for $1 and I found the plant in a basket at a yard sale for $1.

We are showing Kris how to garden this year and one of the gardening books I enjoy is "Lasagna Gardening". We have heavy clay soil so raised beds are a good option to go with.

So there you go part of our "slice of reality."

Oh and the flower in my header was for another group I'm with called Doodle Days. We had to do a daisy doodle and I just so happened to have a picture partly done sitting in my sewing room. It's sketched in ink on wrapping paper.

Raised bed, companion gardening

Kris' big project, starting this week is learning how to grow flowers and veggies in a raised bed. We are planning on doing companion gardening. Her brother will probably help with it as well :) The three of us went to Home Depot this afternoon to do some pricing and to decide what to grow. She has her list and we will shop sometime within the next couple of weeks. We have to prepare the bed first since I let it rest last year. Currently she is looking at some of my gardening books. 

Nik wants to try and grow moss and a Venus Flytrap again. Last year's efforts did not go well :)

If anyone is interested in reading along about their gardening efforts I'll be writing about that on our family blog, http://jocarhansenfamily.blogspot.com

Nik was watching me do some beading this morning and decided he wanted to make something. After some thought he decided to make a soft, round toy for his friend's youngest brother. He found some spare blocks in my fleece fabric box. I had him measure and make a circle template then cut the fleece out. I sewed the pieces together for him and he stuffed the toy. Looks quite nice. He wants me to post it to my blog so I will make a little "lunchtime tutorial" out of it and post that next week.