End Chapter 1 (aka Kindergarten)

It's here.



He's so grown up!

It's Good To Experiment

Some of my latest obsessions hobbies include growing things.  Actual green things like plants you can eat.  I bought a bakers rack, put it in my dining room against the window, and threw a bunch of pots and seeds at it.  This made good use of the light and at the same time blocked some of it.  "Mom, can you close the blinds?  The light's bothering me."  Um, yeah.  That's not going to happen.



One of the things grown is the basil that I put into my very own pesto.  Which I then froze.  I don't know what I'll use it for, but I've wanted to make my own pesto for a while now.  And I hear freezing it is a good way to store it.



So then I'll have handy little morsels of pesto goodness, whenever I need it.

Which hasn't happened yet.

The homemade fruit roll-ups were a success (no, I didn't grow the fruit): my son approved it.  And that's something.

And the sun tea turned out great.  Of course, it's real California sun tea (in other words, not sweetened). The neighbourhood kids deemed it "Yuck!" and my son said "It tastes like coffee."  Of course, not ever having had coffee, his assessment cannot be considered officially reliable.  But I let him think it was.

I, however, loved it.  One of the perks of drastically reducing your daily intake of sugar (to almost nothing) is that everything tastes sweet.  Even real California sun tea.

Channeling Martha...

And because I don't have enough fun new things to try...





Homemade fruit roll-ups.  Or fruit leather, because I made it so thick.  
Either way, I'll let y'all know how it turned out.