Knittingprose

conquering a world of spills, crafts and bills

A good pot of soup…

| January 12, 2011

Here in the midwest you never know what kind of weather you’re gonna wake up to.  Fourteen years ago, just before I permanently moved here, I remember waking up to snow covering everything when the week before it had been 85 degrees out.  St. Louis weather is never a disappointment when it comes to variety.  [...]

Harvesting and drying lemon balm…

| July 30, 2010

Today I harvested some of the lemon balm growing in our garden.  We have two patches of lemon balm that started from a tiny, half-dead seedling I started last summer and nursed all through winter.  It was getting way too big for it’s tiny pot when I put it in the ground this spring.  Honestly, [...]