I have pictures that I hope to share soon in a birthday post. I used the leftover icing to decorate cupcakes as a snack one afternoon. I blended them and used those in the cupcakes in place of the liquid and oil.
I think this is how I will be using the rest of those canned pears in the next little while in baked goods, but not necessarily cupcakes with icing.
I harvested two Armenian cucumbers, some Swiss chard, a few cherry tomatoes, and basil from the garden. I spent some time tidying the garden to get it ready for fall. I had a large dusty miller plant die. It was so large, that I have decided that in its place I can plant 2 artichoke plants, 2 Swiss chard plants, and a zucchini plant all of which I have seeds for already. This is a plant in the front yard in my white garden. After removing the plant, I fertilized the apricot tree it was growing under with fertilizer I had received for free with a coupon earlier this year.
I took every opportunity to open the windows in the mornings to cool the house. We kept the windows open as many hours as possible each morning before closing up the house and turning the air conditioning units back on.
My eldest started her first online college class this week. Her first class is one that has the book available to download online for free, which made for a less expensive start to school. She will take 24 credits of BYU Independent Study online classes which we researched to make sure that they all transfer to her school of choice for her major before going off to school. We started researching prices and I will look for some items at garage sales over the next 16 months Garage sale season is beginning again in earnest now here.
