The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

Wow! Still planting myself, hard frosts until this weekend. Memorial weekend is our safe zone day.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yup frost free date here I think is 1 June.

We had snow maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago?

 

[1kluckychik]

Let me ship u guys some good southern grown veggies. I found this today

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You should make that into a zucchini cake.

1 stick butter
1/2 cups oil
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 1/2 cups flour
4 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups grated zucchini

Topping
1/2 cup choc. chips
1/2 cup nuts *I use walnuts*

cream 1st four ingredients together **beat WELL** Add Vanilla and buttermilk, blend well. Sift dry ingredients and add to creamy mixture *i just add the cocoa, soda and cinnamon 1st mixing well then add flour slowly* STIR in grated zucchini.

Before baking spread choc. chips and nuts on top of cake.

bake @ 325 for 45min in 9 X 13 pan


I didn't plant zucchini this year - can't recall if I didn't start seed or it didn't sprout (I have very old seed base here). I'm mostly a yellow crookneck squash kinda girl, though.

 

[1kluckychik]

Wow tomatoes already down there? I just got my garden in last weekend, well, most of it, anyway. The kitchen garden still needs to be planted. I meant to do that last week but working overnights really kicked my butt and I didn't get to it. Supposed to be 90 up here tomorrow. Unfortunately over about 75 I think I'm going to die so I'll be waiting another day at least to get the kitchen garden in the ground. I am trying to plant watermelon again this year. I know better, I do, but I keep trying. It's just too cool and too short a season up here, even for the hybrids. 

I tried to acclimate back to days today. Went to bed with BF at 9, woke up before midnight thinking it had to be time to get up. Nope. I've got to work nights again next week and I'm thinking at this point I shouldn't try to acclimate back to being alive during the day only to re-acclimate back to nights for Tuesday. The big issue though is that he's working days (his weekend to work, too) so I have to be quiet if I'm here. My sewing machine is probably less than 10 feet from the bed, so there goes that idea. 

Ours arent ready yet. We have picked several cherry and yellow pear toms.
Apparently the Sand Mountain toms are well suited to grow in Florida. Our local stores are stocking them. They are almost as good as slocombs

 

[superchemicalgirl]

PS your birthday?

 

[1kluckychik]

But everything we are getting now has been grown in FL

 

[1kluckychik]

Except our garden

 

[1kluckychik]

PS your birthday?

Aww.
Our sons bday is May 27
He is 7.
For some strange reason he chose IHOP as his bday meal.

 

[1kluckychik]

PS your birthday?

We knocked out our anniversary, his bday, and Mothers day on our beach trip the weekend of May 9