Happy Birthday to me...this one was a really hard one. I'm feeling it in my bones. Body is falling apart and my depression is up there so I’m working at my projects even harder to keep my mind distracted. Sigh....”this too shall pass”
Flowers always help ð
So a road trip to Sparkling Hills Resort was in order to celebrate both mine and Pats birthdays...helped me a lot thanks ladies ð
Some refreshments, good food and lots of chatter happening. This resort is absolutely beautiful with several options of spa treatments and some of the pools were open. Especially loved the infinity pool...oh and there was this waterway that you walked through and as it wound around the room it went from hot to cold to hot to cold! After a couple of rounds you got used to it. My spa massage treatment was one with lavender...came out with a gallon of lavender still in my scalp! Loved it...
My garden was not so great this year as I didn’t have the heart to work on it. But the tomatoes were outstanding. Maybe the key is to ignore them!
Now this is a funny story...I did not plant any yellow tomatoes...and I kept waiting for this to turn red until the lightbulb in my head came on!
These are the various ones I have in the garden....
After my acupuncture treatment a couple days ago I felt so good. Best I have felt in ages ð
So I did a silly thing...made Brent pick the grapes because the bears got the plums and I was afraid they would get these too. So 35 lbs later and there are still lots on the vines. Made 12 qts of juice and twenty 1/2 pints of chia seed jam. And then like a fool I had put 15 lbs of tomatoes in the oven to roast for sauce....and I put on a loaf of sourdough bread to rise....and I had basil picked to make a pesto! Sheesh...what was I thinking. I left the sauce and jam for the next day...got another 5 qts of sauce....and then I went out to the garden and picked off 58 lbs green tomatoes as the weather was pretty cold last night. This brings my tomato harvest to almost 160 lbs. I still have the greenhouse to pick yet. I'm a little tired. ðĪŠ
So in addition to all of this I managed to finish a few things in my studio
More tea towels ...
...a toiletry bag
...a camera bag
...and guess what? Yep...another bag lol...
...and I managed to take some pics too
