Almond Milk

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6 cups of water and 2 cups of almonds. 2 minutes of blending in the Vitamix.

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Separate the nuts from the milk…

… And Voila you have a jug full of fresh raw almond milk 🙂

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Not to be wasteful and throw away all of that pulp, oh so tasteful… You can make it into almond butter, hummus…

Here’s one website I found with great recipes for the pulp
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And The Floodgates Opened

That’s what it has felt like the past three days. Rain, rain, rain and more is coming. I already feel like I’m tromping through a swamp when I walk through the yard. Thankfully we’re at higher elevation so we don’t have to worry about the yard or house flooding, it all runs downhill.

Garden struggles

Well this is frustrating, we have fungus on our tomatoes due to the extreme humidity and rains, bugs are devouring our kale and our one cucumber resembles a water balloon…

Thankfully we have now come to the end of three days of downpour and once again we can see the sun shining. This was by far the longest stretch of rain during my short stay in Georgia. Otherwise it has been sunny, sunny, sunny and humid, humid, HUMID! So humid that when I hang dry clothes in the direct morning sunshine, they are still damp as the day comes to its end. Not to even mention problems with mold, arghhh…

This requires ingenuity 🙂 So I wouldn’t mind getting some ideas especially for the gardening problems!!!

Lemon verbena, basil, rosemary, oregano are doing amazing, as well as lettuces and jalopeno. So not all hope is lost 🙂