Look What I Got

Deb from Tyler Farm http://tylerfarmhomestead.blogspot.com

Sent me a delightful box of goodies over the weekend!  There is just so much wonderful stuff here I have to tell you all about it:

Gifts-from-Deb

First is a pair of fingerless, wool, hand-dyed, and hand-knit (by Deb) gloves that are just perfect.  So much about the gloves are special in that Tyler Farm raises the sheep, the wool is then turned into yarn.  Deb then dyes the yarn with natural dyes, and then creates something warm and sumptuous to use and/or wear. (This was my ‘Pay if Forward’ gift).

Second she makes the cutest cards with her amazing photographs of which I got three.  (I should have turned the one card upside right, but just now noticed that it needed to be turned.)

Because she gets horrible migraines she cannot eat chocolate but has found great recipes to take the place of chocolate and she shared her Blond Brownie one with me.

And she included some Zucchini Lungli seeds for me to try here in Colorado.  “Italian Zucchini-plant as you would regular zucchini-these will grow green and long with a large bulb on the end.  They grow great on a fence.  When they are ripe they will turn orange.  Cook them like winter squash.  WOW!  Seeds from Italy, to Main, to a humble little farm in western Colorado!  I am very excited to see if they grow here.

I THAN YOU, Deb! I am amazed at your generosity!

Food for Monarch Butterflies

I let a corner of my yard (right under my living room window) free for wild plants that feed the bugs that take care of my yard, my heart and my soul.

 This little milkweed plant is going to seed, to blend it’s self with the other wild and natural plants in my yard.