Updates and a coupon :)

Well, I feel terrible.  Every day life has taken a nose dive into the deep end it feels like!  I've been busy as a bee.  Over this last weekend I did Senior pictures for the daughter of a woman who works with my husband (well isn't that a mouth full?).  They  turned out extremely well!  I've also been working on getting a shop set up for my photography!  Now you can buy prints of my photos :)  To celebrate with you, my wonderful blog viewers, I have made a coupon just for you!  Visit my photo gallery and store front here!  After selecting your purchases, enter the code michwife11 and you'll get 10% off your entire purchase!  This coupon expires 10/31/11 so enjoy it while it's here!

What my harvests are beginning to look like!

The garden has gotten huge!  It doesn't seem to stop growing these days!  (this makes for a happy me!)  Both my zucchini plants and my tomato plants (the non hanging ones) are getting to where they reach near my shoulders when I walk into it!  This heat wave here in Michigan has made spending time out in the garden a bit harder (plus I have to water every single night! and twice a day for Lulu), but the plants seem to love it so I can't really complain too much.  I've been freezing green beans and zucchini.  I even made zucchini bread (at the request of a friend) and zucchini and ricotta tart!  (This recipe can be found on Rachel Ray's website and is divine!)  This is the first harvest where cucumbers have been high in number so I think tonight or tomorrow I'll be working on making my first batch of pickles to store.  I think my green bean plants are coming to an end in their production, but we certainly have gotten quite a bit of them if you ask me!  Once this heat wave ends and I'm not so busy (my schedule exploded a bit for this week) I'll go out and try to get some pictures of how large the plants are getting.  It's a very pretty and comforting (for me anyways) sight.  The only complication we've had lately are June bugs (nasty buggers) and the zucchini near the potato plants are having blossom rot issues.  I guess that's it for now!  I'll be back soon I'm sure :)  Good luck everyone and have a great end of the week!