My blackberry and blueberry plants have done very well (raspberries and boysenberries not so much.) When Daughter comes home from school, she greedily falls upon the bushes to glean the most ripe berries. We’ve discovered that the berries need to be black for more than one day for them to be sweet. If they are […]
When I was a teen, my mom, sister and I would go to the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa as an escape from Riverside. I’d dress my best, do my hair and makeup and we’d go and browse high-end shops. Any name brand designer store was fun since nothing existed like that in Riverside
Looking into Our View Garden, I saw a brown head of something that wasn’t my dog. I thought it was a gopher, since moles or gophers had recently invaded our front yard. But I looked more closely and saw it was a squirrel! A squirrel? I’ve never seen a squirrel in my yard before. Well,
We get our weekly CSA share from Fairview Gardens. When the kids were ooohing over the strawberries I brought home, I told them to go harvest thier own strawberries in “OurView Gardens.” They liked that.
Wandering around Costco, as I do every weekend of my parental life, one of the free food samples was strawberry shortcake. The product to be purchased was the sponge cake cups for the strawberries to sit in. A 16-count container of cakes was more than I wanted in the house since I would proceed to
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