Lazy J Bar C

1.  YAY!! I did it! I made bagels and they turned out great! :) I used this recipe with the brown sugar option. 2.  The weather has b...

This is most definitely NOT the kind of tail we like seeing here at the Lazy J Bar C! This rattlesnake got himself tangled up in th...

1.  My roses are blooming like crazy! I didn't get around to pruning them over the winter and they seem pretty happy about that fac...

I was really taken with the color of this pansy, the blue was just so beautiful!! :) Joining Nancy for Tuesday Muse .

1.  I love perennials and enjoy seeing them return every year. I picked up a six-pack of calendula plants last weekend and put them in my ...

Our local Wally World has some beautiful, locally grown potted herbs available in the produce department. I resisted buying any for seve...

For Photo Art Friday this week, Bonnie challenged us to  create a composite (collaged) piece of ABSTRACT photo art. We were to utilize...

I love my African Violets, they thrive despite my lackadaisical care! ;) My grandmother always had a lot of African Violets in all diff...

I wanted to share some more of the photos I took last week on our tour of Sleeping Frog Farms . I have serious garden envy but I also re...

The roses have been blooming again this week and I wanted to show them off for the Friday memes. I took a bunch of pictures trying to c...

This has got to be one of my favorite bushes/trees! Many years ago, I was studying herbal medicine of the Southwest and was given some Vite...

I had two of my Athena Cantaloupe plants grow to maturity and I ended up with exactly two  beautiful cantaloupes. At least they are both...

This is the last gladiolus from the garden with some caryopteris and catnip thrown in. I love the combination of yellow and purple flo...

We have been getting rain recently and it sure does make the garden grow! The tomato plants and summer squash plants completely fill the...

The garden is starting to produce nicely! :) I have been harvesting bush beans, jalapeno, pepperoncini and bell peppers, scalloped squas...

Our very nice neighbors said we could have all the carrots we wanted from their garden...they had a LOT !! Jerry helped me dig up most of t...

I was working away, pulling grass in the garden, when something moved practically under my hand! No, I didn't scream like a girl but...

My garden seems to be slow to get going this year. Everything is doing well but I seem to be about a month behind where I was this time ...

The water lily in the  Cowboy Fish Pond is sending up more flowers, this one bloomed Saturday. So, did you know that the flowers close ...

The first time I had gazpacho I was in my early 20s and on a date with my soon to be husband (now ex). He took me to a nice seafood rest...