How does your garden grow?

Well, it was a great day yesterday. I cleaned and I cooked. I found a great recipe for banana bread that uses brown sugar (most use white sugar, but I had bought a bunch of brown sugar so I wanted to use it).

So, I had invited my friend Evy over for dinner and to sit out on the lovely deck here. The banana bread was done just as she arrived. And then I began cooking salmon (simply with lemon and a mixture of Paul Prudhomme's Seafood Magic and Blackened Redfish Magic spices), some rice pilaf from a box (good stuff, though), and brussell sprouts. It was all quite yummy for the tummy and pretty healthy, too.

I started making some Chai Latte to have with our banana bread, and Evy proceeded to attempt to rescue the flowers I have nearly killed here. I am just not very good with gardening. I've always disliked gardening, probably because of the slugs, worms and bugs it requires dealing with, and so I have not developed a "touch" for it. About 1/2 hour later, after 7 or so jugs of water were disbursed among the flowers, we sat down with our tea and banana bread and then went out on the deck.

Such beauty. Honestly, it is quite beautiful here at the Wine's home. We were chit chatting on the deck when I happened to glance toward the vegetable garden. "What is that in the garden?" I pondered. Evy looked, too. I thought maybe it was a dead animal or something in the zucchini patch. Then it hit me - it was a HUGE zucchini. I went down there, and sure enough, it was a biggie. Evy came and picked it - I weighed it this morning and it is a 6-pound zucchini! Wow!

So, I'm going to be busy this weekend making chocolate chip zucchini loaves. Anyone have a good recipe??

Golf

I played Golf today for the first time in years. I really like this pic of our 4-person golf team. From left to right - Frank, me, Michelle and Thuy. Frank and Thuy were mercy players today and are incredible golfers! Thanks to them, and a Texas Scramble format, we were able to make 18 holes today.....otherwise, I would have needed a nap and some aspirin at the 9-hole mark!

A great time was had by all, and we raised funds for the Village of Hope in Zimbabwe.