[Bon of Babble]

Thank you for the kind words. Nice to find respite here, isn't it?

Some of these threads lately have gotten downright contentious if not nasty.

I've always found solace and peace in gardening.

I have an overabundance of lemons at the moment and made lemon curd yesterday - I am experimenting with different ideas to give as Christmas gifts this years.

Hopefully, I'll have a lot of figs, which are setting on now and will be ripe in August. Made walnut fig jam two years ago and everyone loved it.

I have a lot of peppers setting on too - these are banana peppers which I'll fry up with thin sliced beef for sandwiches - hoping to get a lot of jalapenos for jalapeno relish:

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Between your figs and lemons, you’re going to win the, ‘Eating from the Land, Your Hand or Your Pantry’ this season!

I had some Plumeria-scented lotion that I bought in HI. I really wish I could find it again. For a land-locked Country Bumpkin Yankee Gal, I LOVE anything ‘tropical.’

Slice me up a fresh pineapple and I will follow you anywhere. :)

[metmom]

The garden thread is my favorite because of the civility of it, plus hearing how others are doing and getting ideas for things to try.