moving is such fun, and particularly when one is moving two households at once. or at least attempting to coordinate such a feat. Yet, I must feel thankful for the choas of the move as at least my house is not under water or in a pile of wood akin to toothpicks. Yet, I feel compelled to ask the question, would one not consider living below the water level, yet right next to the water, a bit of a risk, relying solely on man made devices to hold back the water, and the powerful forces of nature. Nature has often flaunted her power by destroying man made devices.

chickweed is such a nice refreshing drink, an infusion of chickweed is akin to a tonic, revitalizing and energizing, almost better than coffee. Perhaps what chickweed needs is an expert marketer, one who will change the perception of chickweed from that of a garden weed worthy of only the biggest bottle of killex possible to that of a must have can't live without it everyday hot tea or cool refreshing drink, hmmmm I wonder what the budweiser girls are doing these days

calculators, dictionaries, atlases, pencil crayons, wax crayons, markers and pastels, should all be listed on the will selft destruct once a year product listing. It seems every year before school starts we need to buy new of all of the above. I wonder what happens to the old ones,

hi, ho, hi ho, off to the market we go. with pansy syrup and petunia jelly off to the market we go. well, we certainly need to make more product for next week. the butters and spreads seem to be particularly popular. gerald has proven to be a talented redclover blossom pancake syrup salesman, competing quite effectively with the wasps. tricky you know, handing out pancake syrup samples past a quick witted, sharp stinger, yellow jacket wasp or two.

well, we will see how busy the farmers market is this saturday. Hopefully as busy as last week, although getting up at 5:15 in the morning is kind of annoying. oh well.

well the portulaca infused oil seems to be a success, at least it smells like potulaca, I take that as an indication that the essential parts of the portulaca plant were actually infused in the oil. Will have to pick more portulaca and start a few more batches this month for it dies of for the winter. hopefully the containers for holding the portulaca salve will arrive soon.

rain, rain and more rain, how to pick clover blossoms in the rain, hmmm. Oh well at least the nasturtiums will be replenished by friday. what to make this time. maybe more nasturtium butter, perhaps nasturtium and jalapeno jelly?? hmm will have to decide by friday.

okay, we are trying a bigger batch of clover blossoms today. The pot we are using now today is making 8 quarts of blossoms, that sells out at about $180.00 ,but I think the pot is big enough to hold more. The next thing wewill need is a big pot with a tap at the bottom so it is easier to fill the jars. I would like to be able to can about $400 dollars a day that would give us enough product to sell through the winter.

we came away with $100. cash for four and a half hours of work and our first time at the farmers market. we ran out of creamy chickweed dressing. go figure. Some people didnt have enough money so they wanted to know if we would be back next week. how cool is that.

oh, oh, we found some of Hannah's toys. Arianna cleaned the truck so we could take it to the farmers market tommorrow and we found an elephant with a ring thru it's nosee and a red and white rattle. We will wash them and they will be all new again for Hannah, next time she comes to visit.

well, arianna found a big spider in her room and now she is sleeping upstairs. I suppose we will have to chatch it and kill it. So the hunt for the spider will commence at some time tommorrow. I wonder if all the clothes on the floor have anything to do with the spider inhabiting her bedroom.

marigold muffins today, and more red clover blossom syrup. I did find some jars though, that will be exciting when they arrive, my pancake syrup will look like pancake syrup that is in the store. Let's see, I think it will be chickweed dressing and stuffed nasturtiums tommorrow, I will get to try out the new icing squeezer thingy that I bought today for three dollars. My chickweed tea should be ready now, a refreshing tonic for low energy, yahoo

thirteen and a half jars of red clover blossom syrup from one batch of flowers, there seems to be about three batches of flowers in one bag so that would be thirty nine bottles of red clover blossom syrup at $5.50 per jar. (250 ml Jar) That is not too bad, if you don't take into consideration the amount of time it takes to cook those thirty nine jars. I need to find a more efficient way to cook the syrup, hence decrease the time of the cooking and increase the profit.

nasturtiums stuffed with cream cheese and chves, rose petal butter were on the menu this weekend. quite yummy fare, part of the offerring, along with red clover blossom syrup, chickweed dressing and garlic portulaca butter at the farmers market this weekend, well, must get to work.

wow, taste of P.A was a blast. People tasted our chickweed, red clover and portulaca dishes and loved them. Some wanted to buy our products right on the spot, everyone had an opinion and would chat with us for five or ten minutes about our funky offerings and now we are registered with the farmers market on wed and sat mornings in p.a. I think I will make some sweet rose butter to be spread on hot muffins. mmmm. yummy. special note to angela, call me when you have a moment.

well, the dressing is ready, now on to chopping the lettuce for the salad

ok, so each day brings us closer to the three day event, where close to 6000 people will go thru the gates. we have 1500 food items to offer with 7 other restaurants on site. hopefully we will have enough.?? red clover blossom syrup. pasta shells with garlic portulaca butter, and finally flower salad with creamy chickweed dressing. this will be very interesting I am sure.

okay, so, pickled red clover blossoms are disgusting, but the creamy chickweed dressing was yummy. Which is a good thing, because i am selling to to 5000 people over a three day period next week at taste of pa.