Yesterday I decided it was time for Tattie Liftin'. Meaning harvesting my container of potatoes. It's more an annual ritual than a meal, tiny new yellow potatoes.
Since I'd found some peppermint, I was able to make a mint sauce. People who eat lamb like it together. I don't eat lamb, but it's great with newly collected baby potatoes. Pat of butter and your world is complete. And the rest of the potatoes will be roasted in the toaster oven today.
Mint sauce is just peppermint chopped fine, pinch of sugar, malt vinegar, no other vinegar need apply.
I planted eyes from a couple of sprouting potatoes in the kitchen
Watch this space.
Later in the evening Gary came over to get some help with houseplants and while we were at it, I gave him a snake plant leaf and we planted the sections in two small pots. He's been wanting to do this for ages. It's a plant that connects our families.
I took care of the original parent plant for his daughter's mother, one summer on my patio, years back, when I had enough shade to put out houseplants.
I kept one leaf -- rent!-- from which grew the big snake plant now in the library. From that I'd grown another. And from that third generation came the current leaf, which will go into his little granddaughter's room. So she'll have a plant from her grandmother, via a winding path.
And here's my plan for the day, read
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Happy day, everyone. Just be.