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Aren't they pretty?  I love mushrooms. I think they are cute, and pretty, and fascinating. Before all this rain, I even bought a couple ceramic mushrooms to put in the flower bed because they make me think of the forest floor in a fairytale. Now that we’ve gotten so much moisture, though, we have tons of living mushrooms all over the garden! The main garden. Carrots in front. Speaking of the garden itself, it is nice and green, but having a little trouble actually growing because all the weather has kept temperatures cooler than they normally are this time of year. We haven’t gotten nearly as many spring blooms as we normally do, and all the tropical plants, like our passion flower vine and hibiscus and bird of paradise are enjoying the rain but not the cooler temps. Yellow squash!  Nevertheless, here is what is happening in the garden this year so far: carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes, purple bell peppers, sweet jalapenos, zuchinni, land yellow sq...

This past weekend was very momentous for me. It was my first visit of the summer to the local farmer's market! I love the Edmond farmer's market. The squash! The peaches! The berries! My goodness. It is the latter which concerns me most today. Or rather, last weekend.  I got some gorgeous blueberries from the farmer's market. And for a bargain! And I thought there could be no better use for them than to use them to make breakfast. So I set out to make lemon blueberry pancakes. Much to my later chagrin, I did not elect to make them from scratch using the Pioneer Woman recipe. I took the easy way out, and started with the basic Bisquik pancake batter, making up the rest on a whim.  Sometimes I do weird things. You can see one here. When I crack open eggs, I put the shells back in the carton. I don't really know why I started doing this, but I can tell you that it came in handy when I planted my garden this spring. I put seeds in eggshells...