Garlic Harvest...55º

8am yesterday as Rusty walked in the back door he said, "Mom, you want to harvest the garlic today?..It is getting hot out here so we better get with it."...The annual ritual of harvesting the garlic has happened for several years now...At first I helped my Mom and she shared her garlic with us, then we started planting our own and shared with her...Cienna was often at our house when harvest time rolled around and she loved helping as she tried digging it out of the ground and then carried it to the storage shed where Papa hung it to dry...So yesterday while Cienna slept (after a late night) Bobi and Rusty dug and pulled garlic while I cleaned the dirt off, counted out bundles of 12 and Herb carried them to the shed and hung them to dry...Later this summer after it has dried, we will clean and trim the heads to share with family and friends...Most of it will be separated into cloves, peeled, sliced on the cuisinart then dried...After it is dried it goes back in the cuisinart where it is chopped into a chunky garlic powder to be used all winter...No preservatives added it tastes just like fresh.

Dinner of leg of lamb with roasted potatoes/onions and cole slaw was followed by homemade ice cream, topped with berry jam...Another day on Barton Heights...OWAV:)