Garden Treasure

There is a large community garden near by my home.

A garden where each person has a lot of space they rent by the year.
Not a garden where everyone shares everything, unless they want to, and I am thinking sometimes.
It is gated off for protection.
Next to the entrance this is the painted bench.

It is incredible.

Retired people who have the desire to grow their own food and flowers.

Organic garden.

They help each other if one is on vacation or out of town.

As I walked through this garden I found people that love to share garden experiences.

Not to mention the bench caught my eye as normal.

 How could I pass up a sunflower?

Remember when a photograph doesn't turn out how I had hoped.

I make some kind of art out of them.

The colors are true, the flower is real, and so is the lady bug.

Sometimes when photographs do not turn out.
I make art out of them more often than not.

Yogurt

Today is my first attempt in making my own yogurt.

My Yolife Yogurt Maker arrived yesterday in the mail.

I have been eating more yogurt because of diet, and loving it.

Going to the grocery store, reading all the labels, and trying to buy what I like when on sale seemed like a lot to do.

The junk that's yogurt these days, not appealing.

All the reviews from users are very positive, with tons of suggestions.

Already I might of made a few mistakes on this batch!

The directions say to leave in maker for eight to twelve hours.

This is before you heat the milk on the stove.

Others say four to six hours, or it could become sour with more time.

I thought the longer in the maker would mean thicker.

Not true.

My friend has made yogurt for many years, she brews yogurt for six hours.

 She usually makes vanilla but recently branched out to coconut.

However she did report that she went through many batches to get it right!

I used Strauss Organic Non Fat Milk, honey, vanilla, powered milk and plain Greek yogurt for the starter.

One great feature of this unit is it comes with two lids.

In the photo above you see the shorter one.

The tall lid (that I will photograph to post later) allows you to make bigger lots. 

Up to eighty ounces of yogurt. 

According to my calculations the yogurt will be done between 5:00-6:00PM.

Then it goes in refrigerator for three hours.

In time for me to have it over some fresh organic strawberry's tonight! 

To be continued...

Organic Party

New home for this young kitten.

His first party with the birthday of his new person who adopted him.

He was all over the place, scampering around like nutty kitten.
Yes, at one point he was standing in the ice bucket!
That didn't last long.

Log cabin home

Out in the woods

On the hottest day in August of 2008