Really fresh fish

One of the men who works for us went fishing on his day off yesterday. He caught 2 salmon and brought one to us. It was extra bloody when my husband filed it for some reason. I put one of the filets in the freezer and we’ll have the other for dinner tonight.
We left the [...]

Where did summer go?

After the driest May on record since 1925, we’ve had a very wet June. There’s been flood watches and advisories off and on the past few weeks. We get a nice day and things start to dry out, then more rain comes. First, we don’t have enough water, now there’s too much.
It’s been cool too. [...]

Fresh cucumber salad

Today I picked our first cucumbers from the garden. Rather than using them as garnish for lettuce salad or in a sandwich, I decided to make them into a salad. The internet has lots of cucumber salad recipes.  I wanted something simple and light. I found one that sounded good and modified it a bit [...]

Canoe adventure & garden update

Yesterday afternoon we went canoing on the Noyes Slough. With one notable exception it was fun. For those of you familiar with Fairbanks, we put in near Danby road and paddled up to the Illinois street bridge. There were a few log jams we had to plow through and one beaver dam we portaged over.
There [...]

Possibly Related Posts?

I just logged into my site this afternoon and was surprised to see a listing at the bottom on my posts of “possibly related posts”. I did not put them there nor authorize them. I do not endorse any of these links. However the way they are attached at the bottom of the post [...]

our house is a garden

Last night my husband made the comment that our house was a garden. Let me explain. We are eager to have fresh veggies. As a result we have planted some planters of veggies in the living room last week with hopes to have them ready to eat in May. They have now sprouted! We [...]