As Jeff pointed out in the comments, we let Froggy II go. This frog was more active than the last one. This one tried to climb up the walls in the frog habitat, and up the sides of the bowl we used to carry him to the creek. We took him down to a shallow part of our local creek, a spot where we could easily walk into the water. He quickly hopped off. Hopefully he'll live.
The third tadpole now has the habitat all to himself, and he's taking his sweet time about growing.
I finally figured out that the monster thing growing in my garden was not my echinacea. So out it came today, bringing a carrot with it. Jeff now thinks it might have been a sunflower. Dang! I'd have tried to replant it if I had realized that. I forgot to plant sunflowers this year. But I don't want them in my garden. But hey! Now that that's gone, I've located the real echinacea! It's alive!
Dy, echinacea does not come from barnacles ;-) It comes from pretty purple and white flowers. Echinacea tincture comes from the roots of the plants. My plan is to make my own this fall (that stuff's expensive!). I'm also going to make my own vitex tincture, if anyone needs any of that.
Tonight, though, we ate yellow squash and zucchini from our garden! And yesterday we ate the first two tomatoes! (fried green ... yum!) And we do have another pumpkin! It's hiding between the garden box and the wall, in a spot that gets virtually no sunlight. In consequense, it's almost white. The other one, the one in the sun, is very green.
Sigh. Want to blog more. Can't. Tired. All children still awake and needy. Annoyed. Behind on email. Did I mention annoyed?
Posted by Steph at June 2, 2003 11:39 PMLOL! You know, you'd think that for all the holistic training I've had, and the huge collection of "voodoo" medicine I inflict on my family, I'd have known that. (Our dr would be so embarrassed right now. ) I cannot wait to hear more about it as it grows- and hopefully to grow some of my own. You'll have to share your procedure for making the tincture (or I could just click on the link, huh?) B/C the stuff we buy from our dr. is quite costly and w/ three boys, we're gonna need a ton of it at some point, I'm sure! ;-)
Posted by: Dy on June 4, 2003 03:34 AM