The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in cooking, gardening on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 04:32 pm GMT -6
The Damsel was making a dish that called for fresh basil, and although she’s loaded with mint, cilantro and sage, that didn’t help her situation. She went to the market and despaired. You know how much they charge for these eeny teeny packages of fresh herbs? $2.99. She went to the local nursery and bought [...]
Posted in gardening, preserving on Friday, June 19th, 2009 02:24 pm GMT -6
If you have lavender in your garden, maybe it’s flowering for you now like it is here in the mountains by the Damsel’s cottage. Lavender has a strong, fresh scent that’s been used for centuries. Very old-school. It’s used in soap, candles, lotion–pretty much anything scented has a lavender rendition. Some people even eat it. [...]
Posted in gardening on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 06:00 pm GMT -6
The Damsel has a fun post in the works, but because it needs to ripen overnight, she’ll take you on a little tour of her garden instead. But get ready because tomorrow…yeah, tomorrow. It’s been a bit nuts around the cottage, because #4′s doing this: Whew! Now. Then. The salsa garden has everything the Damsel [...]
Posted in gardening, thrifty on Monday, June 8th, 2009 01:31 pm GMT -6
The Damsel has a few rose bushes at her cottage. She loves her pink one, and her yellow one, and her minature rose, and her old-fashioned rambling rose. Of course she loves the old-fashioned one. But her red one, an Abraham Lincoln, is the only one that really has a nice rose scent. Apparently, when [...]
Posted in gardening, thrifty on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 08:09 pm GMT -6
The Damsel went out to her herb garden and shook her head in dismay. As usual, the peppermint was out of control. Why can’t the cilantro grow like that? The Damsel can think of many delicious solutions to an out-of-control-cilantro problem. But what do you do with peppermint? The Damsel has used a leaf or [...]
Posted in gardening, thrifty on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 06:48 pm GMT -6
In the olden days, people made scarecrows to protect their crops from birds. The Damsel thinks that sounds sort of charming but a whole lot of work. This is what the Damsel’s Knight in Shining Armor put in their garden to scare away the birds: It’s hard to see, but yes, those are old CD’s [...]
