Bounty in the Humble Bungalow

Our raised vegetable beds have been a huge improvement in the way that we grow our food.
It has been a delicious and rewarding success.
I have been so pleased that I am asking Mr. HB to put in a third one next spring.
We had a fine feast using our home grown vegetables...

Cherry tomatoes

drizzled with olive oil 

sea salt 

and fresh ground pepper

ready for the grill.

Onions at the left, zucchini top right and cherry tomatoes bottom right.

Baby new potatoes boiled and then topped with butter and dill.

(I prefer to use fresh mint as it has a sweet tang that goes so well with potatoes)

Rhubarb pie, 

second crop of rhubarb

the crust was a bit cracked 

but gladly the taste was not affected!

I have had a bumper crop of Sweet Peas...their scent is so divine.

I have decided that what keeps me happy is to have fresh flowers in my home.

I can have dust bunnies, and my floors in need of sweeping

the dishes may be dirty and the laundry hamper overfull

and yet...

if I have some blooms in a vase

I am able to put things in perspective.

I also love

a freshly brewed cup of tea

 it's a ritual that soothes

time to sit for a bit and sip

slowly

savouring

the fragrance of the blend

the heat

as it warms

and restores.

I do treat myself to a proper cup and saucer

when I feel that I need some TLC

a simple cup of tea when served in a beautiful cup

tastes better.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.  ~Thich Nat Hahn

I plan to write more on the simple things in life 

of which I partake 

and the joy that they bring to me in my daily round.

Hope that you enjoyed Labour Day

it's pouring rain here

and cold so we have put the furnace on!