Add a scoop of icecream to make this taste just like a hot fudge and caramel sundae with pineapple on top. It’s really just your typical Pineapple Upside Down Cake, only made with a brownie recipe instead. And I use the term recipe loosely.
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Remember when we played a little game to figure out what random species I’d found in the canyons of Pleasant Grove? Let me introduce you to some plants I met on my hike to Silver Lake. Some of these are easy, others are not. Do you know them all? Just click on any picture to add your best guess to its comment section. (more…)
Here’s a bee making sure we’ll have seeds to plant from Ethan’s awesome sunflower:
Cool orangey-red and yellow bee all pollened up..
The kids are very excited about planting a row of these in our garden next spring. Here’s hoping they’ll actually work.
I had an interesting little twitter conversation on laziness and perfectionism this morning. Twitter is a challenge for long-winded people like me, but the essence of the conversation is that a friend had said that the Sloth in her wouldn’t start the day’s projects because she couldn’t figure out where best to start. To me that screams Perfectionist, not Sloth, though most of us who can identify with her distress have likely been called lazy ourselves, and may even believe we are. (more…)
What is this? A goathead? A sticker-weed? Punctureweed? Thorn plant? Professor Harris, who taught my Biology this past semester, said that some people call it a Caltrop, but I think the scientific name is most appropriate.
Tribulus Terrestris… Tribulation of the Earth. Isn’t it the truth? And yet when I hear the word Tribulation, it’s typically at church, and also typically associated with learning. We’re supposed to learn from our trials, right? The only thing I’ve learned from this plant is that there is most certainly Evil in this world.
Tribulus Terrestris
I have tribulations all over my shoes!