I made a balloon light using A Balloon & a
Battery Operated Tea Light. It’s a simple thing to make.
One thing that’s important to do is cover up any little sharp legs.
* A glow-stick would work nicely too.
There’s direction online for balloon lights made with glow-sticks.
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I had a couple packs of herbed cheeses. We really enjoyed the tomato and basil cheese. We haven’t tried the other yet. I liked the tomato and basil cheese so much that I decided to make some.
I went in search of a recipe. The recipes were either too overdone with oodles of ingredients or made too large amounts for my small family. As usual I ended up making up my own recipe. The recipes gave me a good idea what ingredients to use. I decided on using just 3 ingredients.
My husband really enjoyed my homemade spread. It’s so easy to make. I plan to use this simple recipe as a spring board and add some other ingredients with it to make some other spreads and dips.
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Basil & Tomato Cream Cheese Spread
8 oz. softened cream cheese
2/3 cup chopped fresh tomatoes or chopped sun dried tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil (or 2 tbsp dried basil)
1/4 tsp Mrs. Dash garlic & herb seasoning
In a medium size bowl, use a fork to thoroughly mix all 4 ingredients together.
Refrigerate for a few hours or overnight so the cream cheese can soak up the flavors.
Serve with crackers or chips
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We had a busy Sunday morning. We went to the garden and harvested about 4 dozen ears of Peaches & Cream Sweet corn.
Working together, it didn’t take long to have the corn shucked, cleaned, blanched, cooled, packaged and in the freezer. We have a dozen bags of corn put up and ready for future meals.
*We used this method for preparing and freezing our corn:
How to freeze corn – pickyourown.org
*Related post from 7-14-2014 Mostly Corny Post
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Both of my mint plants have been attacked by web making caterpillars. According to some of the over-the-moon raves about the pest repellent properties of mint, there shouldn’t be an insect, spider nor caterpillar dare to venture close to my mint plants. It’s on the internet so it must be gospel. Right? … Umm Nope!
Obviously, these caterpillars didn’t take time to read about mint being a repellent before moving in to it.
Apparently a ladybeetle and another odd looking insect didn’t get the memo that they were supposed to be repelled by the mint.
What do you supposed this creepy crawly is?
While I’m at it, I may as well point out that in my photo in my post ‘Daddy LongLegs with it’s 2 red eggs‘, she was on my mint plant as well.
So, there you have it.
My mint is bagged and tossed so these creepy crawlies don’t spread. Hopefully, my basil won’t get infested, but unfortunately it could happen.
I guess the bad luck with mints could be just my experience and it may work well for other folks.
Have you tried mint plants or fresh mint as a pest repellent? Did it work?
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What does your morning look like?
Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!
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Joys Of Creating 