Well, small one, we're not going to do anything with the leaves, but the stems, we're going to cook with sugar and lime juice and then we're going to add rosewater.
That's right, we made rhubarb and rosewater syrup recently. It tastes great and is really beautiful; sorry I didn't think to take a picture during daylight. I mix it with sparkling water. Except now it has turned cold and rainy again so I'm thinking of mixing it with hot chamomile tea. Seriously.
This rhubarb plant is an amazing thing. Someone gifted it to me about 3 years ago, all of two and a half small leaves and completely wilted. It was an 80 degree day in August. Not transplanting weather. But, into the ground it went with a bag of compost and a bucket of water and now, well, it has taken over the front corner of the yard. It is sending up flower stalks for the second year in a row and they are at least six feet high. Another thing that should be photographed in daylight.
Liam has a cold. A cough that I hoped was on the way out this morning seems to be, instead, settling in. Poor small thing, he was asleep by 7:00 tonight. He desperately wants one of his school friends to come over and play tomorrow afternoon and "stay for dinner, please, mommy, please, please call her mommy and ask" and it would be fine with me except I'm not sure he is going to be up to it. I'm trying to steer this energy towards Pizza Friday in hopes he'll be rested and better by then.
We suffered the death of one wooly-bear caterpillar this weekend and are now trying hard to take better care of the second one. Pets that live in jars are so not my thing.
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