Go ahead and mock, but I fucking love SHEIN! Going to FL next week for a family wedding. Haven't bought sundresses in years. 4 dresses=$68.79! Given the many Evangelical Magas who will be present, I am leaning towards the rainbow one! Feel free to vote!🌈

My mini Sphynx had surgery last week. This is her paw wearing the world's smallest pulse oximeter! I am dying here! 😂

Today I’m making and canning a huge batch of navy bean, ham and vegetable soup. Had to dig a few things from the freezer, but everything but the beans and ham came from our garden. Lots of warm soup ready for Fall! 😋

Granted the remodeling my company does is for very high end clients. But, even for my world this is insane. Six light fixtures being shipped from NY State. Shipping is almost $600. Are they chartering a limo? 😂

Trump can take his Mexico tomato tax and shove it up his diaper! I am prepared! 15lbs and counting! Canning in September!

My Queen, my Princess, my Morgan, my sweet baby naked girl might be losing her right eye. I cannot even fathom this right now. Last week she appeared to have an eye infection. Nope, torn cornea. Now there is a black spot on the surface. Meeting w ophthalmologist surgeon vet tomorrow. Breaking me.

Today’s little haul. I’m puzzled by the pumpkin. One vine died back and turned brown with just the 1 pumpkin on it like it was October? So I’m planting two more! And isn’t that the most beautiful eggplant you’ve ever seen!! Rosa Bianca. So lovely!

Holy crap my son’s hot pepper has at least 50 peppers already! Thai Dragon has a Scoville of 50-100k units! 🔥🧯Later this summer we are going to bottle sauce together! I am going to create labels w his name on them!!! Still working on the name!

I might put up more later this summer, but for two people I think this is a years worth of jam. Strawberry, strawberry/rhubarb, blueberry, blueberry/tarragon and a candied pepper I had forgotten about. If I see nice peaches at the farmers market I’ll add that and a mint for Easter. 😋

Dragons tongue beans coming in! Love their color! It cooks away but still so cool!

Had such a random assortment of garden veggies. Squash beans taters radishes carrots onions kale and chard. Made beef stew for dinner. Not exactly a summertime dish after 5 days + 100° but hey - my kitchen my rules! 😂

My 23yo is here all week! Tonight we’re having prime rib with new potatoes from the garden and a Caprese salad also from the garden. Today I showed him how to debone the meat, how to slow cook the ribs and to render fat. He lives in an apartment in New York City, so he can’t grill but…

Help! Seeded two delicata winter squash along w 6 other varieties. One is growing delicata. The other is growing the monster on the right. It’s not a butternut. Totally different leaves and no tendrils. I’ve looked at every chart I can and bupkis! I think it’s a crossed seed I got by mistake?

Yesterday I got lucky w 2.5lbs of salmon for $20. Cut into filets I will fold to even thickness. That’s dinner for 3, a dinner for 2, and 2 stackable sections for a Fall Wellington for three. Add rice and a veggie, that’s less than $10 per meal vs $120 at a restaurant. Buy in bulk learn to freeze!

Tonight we are having teriyaki chicken thighs, Ina Garten's snap peas recipe (fresh from the garden), MD sweet corn on the cob and parmesan risotto. Every once in a while I make completely random meals with zero thought to ethnicity or palette. Keeps 'em guessing! 😂What's on your table?

Five weeks ago I received some cuttings from a neighbor’s two fig tree varieties. Five weeks of patience, rooting hormone and a cup later, I’ve grown a tiny fig tree! The two larger ones are starting roots as well! They will be houseplants for a year. But good things come to those who wait. ❤️

Food porn.

Every single day I am grateful that my kids are adults so I don't have to explain all of this to them later.

Today’s harvest. I see weight loss in our future!🤣

OMG you guys!!! Living in my own world I thought Father's Day with THIS Sunday! I had already planned and purchased his favorite dinner foods for the weekend! Tonight was bacon cheese smash burgers, then chicken parm with homemade baguette, then flank steak all with salad from the garden!

Encouraging the squash to produce more I picked the first patty pan and round zucchini. They are so buttery at this stage. Also rescued a fallen Roma. While out there grabbed some kale dill cilantro and basil to encourage more growth! My happy place. 💕😋

OMG! For father's day I ordered this bc hubs mentioned how nice it would be to sit by the pool in the evening and read comfortably. It just arrived. A) it's in three boxes bigger than I can lift. B) they dropped it in the center of the driveway where he parks. C) pic is on the box! SURPRISE! NOT!😂

What am I making for dinner? It’s one of my favorite dishes!

Wait POTUS can’t understand the daily briefing? Has anyone tried sock puppets?

Little dude was out here doing his little bee thing and crashed out for a nap 😴 on one of my potato plants! 🪴

Morgan found herself a perch outside watching me garden! Of she could she’d spend the entire day out there. But in the shade. She can get a wicked sunburn!

What in the chicken fried fuck is THIS?????

Meanwhile on Twitter...SNAFU.

Drying herbs this morning. There is no comparison to home grown. Got this cute kit on Amazon. Came w dozens of labels plus blank and a white pen and funnel. Four min on air fry and boom!

First baby carrots! I can’t get enough carrots. Scarlet Nance, Danvers, Rainbow, and the round Tonda di Parigi! Puts some cheer in the miserable 54° and pouring rain!

Tonight's meal is a simple, budget friendly use of leftovers and garden goodies. Leftover chopped ham, carrots, a bit of celery and half a red onion. A bag of navy beans. Some green and red Russian kale, green onion tops, rainbow Chard, rosemary, lavender, sage, thyme and marjoram from the garden.

With a cool spring I am surprised to find I am already at the drying herbs stage. Saw a woman on YouTube suggesting putting your dehydrator on 6 hours to do this. LOL. 4 min each in the air fryer set to 200 degrees and I was done with three batches in 15 min! Smells heavenly in here!

21 yo is making dinner! He bought the ingredients himself and said this summer he’s in charge of some meals. Sitting here watching him feels like a mom touch down dance! 23 yo can also rock an egg scramble or any breakfast. I lucked out in the mom/boy department! Blessed!

Just one more raised bed to assemble and we are done. Until we build a greenhouse this Fall lol. Shhhhh. Things are exploding now in the sun! We call the patty pan squash “spaceship squash”! Cannot wait to harvest some! 😋

The 21 yo is home! Apparently he learned to cook this year and will be making dinners on the regular! WOOT! But tonight it's my night. Prime rib I got on sale this winter, scalloped potatoes with bacon and cheese, salad from our garden and Rocky Road! Wish 23yo was here too, but he's a working man!

God, the evening light is so beautiful tonight! Cool breezes blowing after days of rain. The pithari jar was buried under shrubs when we bought the house. It was a sickly yellow. This is its new undercoat. Later I will layer on shades of grey and white in streaks to enrich the finish. 💕

Ah another day another market manipulation by the toddler in chief!

A new renovation in the home stretch. Custom paint on the cabinets. Custom hood. Soft brass cabinet hardware will match strapping. Made to order faucets. Vintage DC home. I love my job!

It’s cold and wet and dreary outside, and it will be like that for a few days. So I rescued these guys from resting on the ground and brought them inside to cheer me up! Let them cheer you too!

I no longer believe that maga will ever see the light. They will lose their healthcare, lose their SNAP benefits, lose the care for their disabled child and still vote republican because... And that's where reason fails me. Because what? What does it get them?

Buh buh buh BIDEN! Dude can't walk without looking at the floor!

Please report @[email protected] they are putting all resisters and Dem supporters on moderation lists!!!!

O. M. G. My new honey crisp apple tree has arrived, and it’s more than I could have hoped for. Insane branching for a 5’ tree. Zero wilting even shopping by box. Fastgrowingtrees.com for the win! Fresh apples in my future! 🍎

Being able to grow your own food just feels like magic to me. There is no other way to look at it. Can't wait for more than greens. Lots of tomatoes growing, four types of squash, beets, carrots, onions, herbs, beans and peas and on and on. Veggie heaven! Cleaned up and in the fridge for later!

This dude humped one ton of demo in buckets out of a DC condo through a freight elevator today, came home and repaired our stupid malfunctioning pool sweep, cleaned the kitchen bc I’m underwater w like $100k in materials orders on deck, got high AF and is now the funniest person I know! 😂😂😂

@jedimindtricker.bsky.social LOL!

NGL, best mother's day of my life! Granted this isn't for everyone lol. We got up at 730. He climbed the cherry tree with the chainsaw and played arborist while I made brekkie. Then we assembled 5 raised beds and used the tree cuttings to line the base. He went to HD for LeafGro and surprised me...

Noem blinks a lot because I am pretty sure she can't move any other part of her face?

Glorious day here in the DMV! Breezy, sunny, cool. Heading out to dinner to hear some friends play in a band. Tomorrow the hubs is assembling the 6 small and 1 large raised metal beds I bought. Then he is pruning our huge cherry tree and helping me mix soil. My kind of mother's day!