Pokey Peas Challenge for June 2024

I had such a good time last night, thank you for joining! I'm always so tired by the end of the week, and then you guys get me energized and motivated. I have a LO going from Mother's Day and got some other pictures printed.

Took Abby to the vet this morning. Of course she seemed to be feeling better - just like a kid lol. Nothing wrong with her ears, except some wax. He gave me ear drops for them. She's only had one dose and already the head shaking and rubbing her ears on everything is much less. Rudy is sleeping over tonight and also DS2 is coming over. We'll work on that dang puzzle and get some pizza, and play board games and chill.
And the A/C is fixed. I'm glad to get this out of the way before the hot hot part of summer is here.

Your radishes look yummy grammadee they are so good!

I hope you are all having a good weekend!

joyfulnana - you must have posted while I was typing. Glad Abby is already feeling better. Dorian needed ear drops when we first got him and he was so much happier once they kicked in. YAY for fixed A/C!! Have fun with your sleepover!

Thank you. I have envelopes of scraps but sometimes still struggle with the right shades. A. doesn't have her license yet but we're hopeful that she'll be ready to test sometime in September



Thanks. Shimelle really helped me with 'good enough' colours and that does make it a bit easier.


I finished up the last cards this evening from the print, cut, and colour images.






I also finished transcribing another of my mum's travel journals -it was from 1993 and she was marvelling over the cellular phones that looked like transistor radios, lol. Next up is finishing up a layout from a week ago Friday. I'm struggling a little with the journalling because I'm not sure on the names of all the cousins in the phone - I know some but three of them, I'm just not positive about. Ooops.

Spooktacular cards, Linda! Awesome use of those downloaded images and sentiments! What pens did you use to colour them?

nylene, when I think back to my childhood, I remember our first taste of fresh greens each spring was cooked PIGWEED! It tastes like mild spinach. And after a winter of dried and preserved veggies and fruits, it tasted glorious! When we were in Finland on a cruise, we had NETTLE soup, and it tasted very similar. And now your family used DANDELIONS. Not sure I would be that creative to include weeds in our common diet. The challenge would be marketing! If everyone realized they had food growing randomly just outside their door, and it grew without the intervention of fertilizers and chemicals, why would they need big Agro? Or Insta Cart?

kitbop, if you are going to put a garden in your front yard, you will need to invest in a fence so you will have some of the produce for yourselves instead of having it all picked by neighbourhood kids! Years ago we had a house backed onto an unfenced schoolyard. There were several foraging crews that raided peas and carrots from our little pocket handkerchief sized garden in the back yard!

Off to the garden again this morning. Yesterday afternoon/evening, Dh watered the portions I got to yesterday. Now I need to clean up the parts I didn't, so those can get a drink. And I need to bake a rhubarb crisp to take out to dd & family at the lake when we go there for supper. I will have a late evening setting up the new Quarter here. Can't believe July--and the second half of 2024--starts TOMORROW!

Hey, Linda , if we ever get that teleporting thing down, I will certainly send you some rhubarb crisp! Maybe you could reciprocate with some fresh citrus? I have wild gooseberries growing all around our yard. My mom used to make gooseberry jam. It was super tart, but I like jams like that. I haven’t tried to make it. Get enough tart from the “wild” chokecherries we pick from the tree that decided to grow between our patio and our deck.