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Harvest Time For Tomatoes
Harvest time for Tomatoes is generally from the third week in July until the frost takes them in the fall. So… the minute the tomatoes are ready to pick I’m right there with my salt shaker. Tomatoes piled high in bushel baskets would sit on our back porch waiting for my mom to put up…
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Growing & Cooking With The Herb…Dill
Dill is an herb that flourishes well in an herb garden and is a delightful herb to use in your cooking. Growing dill is easy and it does well in the full sun or part shade. Dill can be be planted by seed or plant starts. Sometimes it’s called dill weed because it comes back…
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Cooking With Herbs – Dill Dip
Cooking with herbs adds a wonderful subtle flavor to foods. This dill dip uses the airy fern like leaves of the dill weed plant and is absolutely delicious. This dill dip recipe also requires fresh parsley leaves which give it added flavor. The herbs are coming on strong right now and it’s time to begin…
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Pioneer Day Celebration
The annual Pioneer Day celebration commemorating the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers into the Salt Lake valley was on held on the 24th of July. The first recognized pioneers entered the Salt Lake valley, under the direction of Brigham Young, on July 24, 1847. (Opps… on the video, I said it was 1843… “beg yer…
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Glass Marbles
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My Car Battery & Auto Service
My car battery died. I’ve been going get a little auto service on my car for several weeks now but just put it off. My battery fooled me because the lights would turn on and the windows would roll up but… if the car door was open too long… or the car wasn’t driven for…
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DiStefano Family Reunion 08
The DiStefano Famiy Reunion was held in Tabiona, Utah. It was the hometown of my grandparents, Girolamo and Kathrine DiStefano, from the 20’s to early 40’s. They moved out to the rural, eastern part of the state to “bootleg” during the prohibition… but that’s another story for another day.
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Wildflowers
The wildflowers are blooming like craze at our mt. retreat in Tabiona. This is one of my favorites. This wildflower grows abundantly on the property line against the road. The sun had just come over the mt. and generously bathed this little beauty in light. It certainly lives up to its name: Indian Paint Brush.…
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Hand Garden Tools
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Rural Sounds Of Silence
The sounds of silence can’t be photographed… and it’s too bad. Oh what a stupendous picture it would make.