Most work days here end by heading to the garden to pull weeds, pick some vegetables, and get myself a dirt tan. This usually takes 2 hours give or take a quack grass emergency.
After, I do not come home and start making a dinner that requires math, concentration, or multiple ingredients. Depending on how irritating the voles were, I might even decide stirring is JUST TOO INVOLVED.
I don't even want to have to use a recipe. I want to cook things and eat them. Period. But they have to taste good. Period. And not require a big cleanup. Period.
So what do I eat all summer?
I cook camp food. The kind of thing you'd serve at a logging camp.
A hunk of meat (sometimes), and whatever vegetables I picked that day. Today it was beets and carrots. Simple, simple, simple. But fresh, fresh, fresh.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't have the energy to spend more than 4 months on making dinner. That is the absolutely cutoff.
5 days ago I stood in my kitchen (apparently we both stand in this exact spot a lot) and wrote this sign.
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We'll email you this post, so you can refer to it later.
Stick figure poodles are my specialty. Find out what this sign accompanied in the 36 piece puzzle below that requires no stirring.
That's right. I have disassembled my trusty DIY walking desk and dumped it onto the sidewalk in front of my cottage garden. It was gone in half a day.
My niece drove past and took it. I live in a small town.
With big weeds.
Have a good Sunday. Weed the garden. Buy an ice cream cone. Eat like a logger.
Pam
Tried your puzzle twice & got the drill both times, frustrating🤬
Karen
Hi Pam. I can give you two tips. 1. Create a Jigidi account and sign into it before starting puzzles. It saves your work so you won't get partway done a puzzle only to have it disappear if you step away. 2. Do the puzzles on something bigger than a phone. They aren't really meant for phones. In fact they aren't even really meant for my website, lol. I just do them as an added bonus on the weekend. ~ karen!
Carol O
Good looking meal! How about some garden pictures for the puzzles. And can we get the option for larger puzzles please? These itty bitty ones are no challenge. Haven't there been 70+ piece ones in the now distant past? Thanks!
whitequeen96
I just discovered that if you open the puzzle and look on the extreme R at the top, there are 3 dots. Click on them and there's an option to change the number of puzzle pieces.
If it's a 70 piece puzzle, I usually wish it had less pieces! Now I can do that.
Karen
Good eye! That's a new feature and I didn't even know it automatically appeared on the puzzles, lol. So good job figuring it. I'll include a little tip sheet at the beginning of the puzzle explaining how to change the pieces. ~ karen!
LeeAnne Bloye
GREAT puzzle! Made me laugh! Love the stick poodle, totally captures Lip's personality.
Karen
I thought so too lol! ~ karen
Mary W
Since I was very little (I'm 77 now) I've always wanted a white picket fence around a small cabin in a clearing next to a small creek. Your fence is the PERFECT fence in my dream world. Thanks for the view on this horrible hot morning in FL. My garden is 6' under weeds - HOW DO THEY GROW without water?
Mary W
and your meal is a meal of my dreams.Perfection!
Karen
My poor old picket fence has needed replacing for about 5 years now. 🙃 I just keep supporting it and hoping for the best. ~ karen!
Chris
We used to spend our winters in Ft. Myers (I'm 75 and my husband is 74) and we never knew what to expect when we returned in the fall...surprisingly the stuff we planted when we were there did great. Of course, we mulched the crap out of it so that was a huge help. The only thing that bugged me was that the gardenia bush would bloom when we weren't there - bummer! And when we sold our place, I left my orchids because I knew they would never survive even indoors here in the midwest. And I agree that Karen's dinner is a dream...
CathyR
Try S Arizona—51 days of triple digits, bust of a monsoon season and yet the weeds are thriving!
I blame Aliens.
Teresa Chandler
4 months making dinner?
Karen
That's how long it took to grow the carrots and beets. ;) ~ karen!
Jan in Waterdown
Doh. Now I get it. I read that and thought it was a typo…. that you meant “minutes” not “months”.
Grammy
Phillip is a far more enjoyable companion for your daily exercise than a laptop shelf, for sure. I also love your dinner plate. Life is good.
Karen
Thanks Grammy! It's an ironstone plate. I have a variety of them and love them too. :) ~ karen!
EC
YAY! PUZZLE! Still blame you...🤣
Karen
That's because it is still my fault! ~ karen
Randy P
Fun stuff. I'm kinda surprised it took that long for that neato gizmo to vanish. Must be the difference between inner-city Chicago and 'outer'-city your lovely town. I've flown over your place many times.... in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 that is - lol
Jan in Waterdown
Does that make you a fly by stalker?