Kolsch and Kitchen

Things have been pretty crazy. Titus and Jane are painting our kitchen, so the house has been really disrupted. All the cupboard doors and drawers are off, and everything is covered in plastic. We're going into the fourth week of this. It wouldn't have been so bad if we could have done it before I started this big book project.

Here it is with primer and some wall color up. Titus and Jane took the plastic down for the weekend, so it wouldn't be quite so awful.

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Weather Note
At least the weather is cooperating. It's been in the 80s in the day, and down to a chilly 59 at night. We only had to sleep outside one night, and it was pleasant, with a full moon.
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Fortunately, we can escape to the farm. We finished chicken tractoring where the peas had been, and here Ricky C. gives it a good tilling. I added soil sulphur, and put bean innoculant right in the rows before planting lots more filet beans.

Rick and Buddy work on the door to the laundry room.

The pumpkins are sprouting in the back bed. This was taken last Monday, and they're three times as big now.

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What We're Eating
It's eating time! We've been having some wonderful dishes with our fresh produce. We pulled up the first hill of potatoes, and Ricky C. made potato salad out of it. It had homegrown potatoes, onions, and garlic, and his homemade pickles from his homegrown cukes. That's pretty homemade! I told him next time, I'd make an aioli with our homegrown eggs and locally grown olive oil.

Rick also brought a jar of pickles--wonderful tiny crunchy pickles--and the first dilly beans of the season.

Let's take a moment to honor Katinka's mom, who made the best dilly beans! We aspire to someday reach her level of greatness.
At our house, I can't really cook with no kitchen, so this is the best I could come up with for a meal. There actually is a little lettuce under all that stuff, which includes our homegrown red onions, and Paul's homemade yogurt.

And... it just doesn't get any fresher than this:

What else are we eating? Lots and lots of pizza! Pizza with Karen and Glen, pizza at the pub. Meanwhile, we dream of pizza from our oven as we work on plinth designs.
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On Thursday, Karen and Glen came over for Kolsch drinking. We got tiny plastic cups, and put lots of bottles of Kolsch in an ice chest, just covered in ice. It was icy cold and really delicious!

We also had a great spread with cheese and crackers, dilly beans and pickles, and fresh homegrown salsa (with last year's peppers).

And if we stay up late enough, we can see this guy bloom. It's a datura, so it's poisonous and really shouldn't be in the veggie garden, but it's pretty.