YAY RAIN!

Finally the rains have arrived! My thirsty garden is loving all the water. I lost a couple of sunflowers and the sugar snap peas suffered a bit (their stalks are so delicate). But for the most part the garden is loving it, and I am loving watching all that rain coming down. Just love this kind of weather.

Today was so much fun, playing with the rocks. Digging them out and placing one on top of another to make little stone walls surrounding the garden beds. And then to look back and behold the vision as if some great piece of art. Whatever this force that moves me is.... it finds great pleasure in creating!

Ambitious thoughts

Today was a day full of ambitious thoughts....but without alot of interest in those thoughts, nothing much really got done.

I finally got around to moving the citrus trees into "decent housing"... two wine barrels filled with great soil. They suffered too many months in 5 gallon pots without proper care. Now, hopefully they will begin to florish!

Well, this has been some blog.... Hahaha. Maybe I'll become more inspired to write.

Dec. is almost here and the garden is thriving. SO many wonderful greens, brocolli, beets, figs, guavas, raspberrries...

The central coast is an amazing place for gardening. Gratitude comes naturally when witness to the miracle of a garden. I mean really... this little speck of a seed that I buried in the dirt so many weeks before manifests into a bush of peppers or a cluster of tomatoes, a leafy green lettuce ... what an everyday miracle!

Today is going to be really hot- I'm talking 85 degrees at the beaches! So after a little early morning weeding and watering its off to the beach. Before we go we'll have our favorite breakfast- cottage cheese pancakes. They are the best, melt in your mouth high protein pancakes. Even the kids love them, although you might want to change the name until they've tried em. Here's the recipe;

                                 Cottage Cheese Pancakes

MIX TOGETHER

 1 cup cottage cheese

1 cup milk

2 Tbs melted butter

4 egg yolks

tsp vanilla

MIX TOGETHER IN SEPARATE BOWL

 ¾ cup flour

½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

ADD DRY INGREDIENTS TO WET

WHIP UNTIL STIFF IN SEPARATE BOWL

 4 egg whites

FOLD EGG WHITES INTO MIXTURE

 COOK ON NON STICK GRILL

 Serve with butter, maple  syrup ( optional whipped cream)

Welcome to my blog about suburban homesteading and my journey towards self sufficiency and freedom. More and more my home in the suburbs is looking and feeling more like the farm in the country that I always wanted! 

Spring is here and the garden is coming to life. Today bush beans that I had started in peat pots were put in the ground. I pulled most of the aruglua that was going to seed, leaving a small plant to collect seeds from.

  Here's a gardening tip that I was excited to discover. Starbucks gives out bags of used coffee grinds that are great for composting and you can use them to sprinkle around plants to keep snails and slugs off. A nice side effect is that the garden has a wonderful aroma of coffee!