A Monthly Newsletter of Projects, Free Svgs, New Book Releases, Craft Summits, Farm Photos, Gardening, Recipes and more - all for the month of July
- July 1st - Canada Day
- July 4th - 4th Of July
This is actually the list of freebies for JUNE - which I'll leave here until the July Freebies are out next week. :-) Find the Monthly Freebies here:
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Find the index of free svgs by theme here:
July Cricut Projects
Yardzee, Roll A Doodle, Cake & Casserole Carriers, and Reusable Drink Pouches -
On My Desk July 2021 -
See all the details and where to get the svgs, here:
Free By Theme SVGS Popular In July:
- 4th of July Free SVGS
- 4th of July Paper Crafting SVGS
- Camping Themed FREE SVGS
- Canada Themed
- Fishing Themed FREE SVGS
- Gardening Themed FREE SVGS
- Grilling Themed FREE SVGS
- Mermaid and Sea themed FREE SVGS
- Summer Themed FREE SVGS [Coming Soon]
Free Crafting Summits in July:
- For the latest list, check the thread in the facebook group Learn Cricut With Free SVGS. Each Month I create a new thread, and these events get linked in the comments. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1121399284857845/posts/2168139600183803/
- Summer Crafts For Cricut Makers [Registration Opens June 27th]
- Coming soon from Abi Kirsten - a week of flower making. Free summit style, with a new freebie each day.
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BOOKS
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- July 4th - Cozy Mystery [with substance] - Flop Dead Gorgeous by David Rosenfelt. Andy Carpenter #27. This series is my favorite for road trips with my husband. They are cozy mysteries - but the mysteries have depth. They are funny, but not ridiculous. They are light, and never graphic - not embarrasing to listen to. Former lawyer, now "retired" millionaire and dog rescuer, takes on cases and solves them.
- July 11th - "Southern Fiction" [possible beach read] - Summer Of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey
- July 10th - Police Procedural - Obsessed by James Patterson - Book 15 in the Michael Bennet series
- July 11th - Historical Fiction - The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons [Author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, which I read recently and loved]
- July 11th - Amish/Police Procedural - Evil Heart by Linda Castillo, book 15 in the Kate Burkholder series. Although an Amish series, these are NOT cozy mysteries, and are somtimes quite graphic. Former Amish woman becomes police chief, investirates murders in the Amish community.
- July 11th - Thriller - Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins
- July 25th - Thriller - Everyone Here is Lying By Shari Lapena
- July 25th - Cozy Mystery - Pink Lemonade Cake by Joanne Fluke [Hannah Swensen Series]
FREE Books:
- Don't forget, if you have Amazon Prime, you can download one free pre-release book each month! Amazon First Reads - https://amzn.to/46xnN0S
- Choose One Free Ebook for signing up for the Simon and Shuster Emails - use the Glose App to download and read your free book.
- Find an index to my book themed blog posts, with more freebies, here: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/p/reading.html
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GARDEN & RECIPES
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GARDEN & RECIPES
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What was in my harvest basket, the last week of June 2023
It's been a cooler than normal year for us here, so I still have lettuce and bok choy doing well in the garden, they will both start bolting this month, in the heat. I have some lavender in here - typically you wait until at least 40-50% of the plant is in bloom before harvesting, but I will occasionally cut some a little extra for in bouquets.
I've been using a lot of bok choy this year, in omelets and quiches in particular, but also in stir fry and salads. It reminds me a lot of cooking spinach, but I love that it stays a vibrant green, and is less stringy. More about cooking, and using, Bok Choy
This time of year, I keep a quiche in the fridge for quick lunches. Sometimes I heat it up, other days I eat it cold with a small salad. It works for a breakfast too, or an afternoon snack for my grandson. It's just handy to have one premade here - and we have plenty of eggs, bacon, sausage, and vegetables here on the farm. :-)
My Basic Quiche Recipe is:
- 5 eggs
- 2.5 cups of milk (Our milk is straight from the dairy and includes cream - if I was using store bought milk, I'd probably substitute cream for part of this - maybe half a cup or more)
- Apprx. 1 cup of cheese.
- And then the rule of thumb is "about 2 cups of fillings"
I never measure my "fillings".
My stand by favorites include either bacon or sausage (precooked) with mushrooms, onions, and whatever other veggies need used up. Right now, I've been using a lot of Bok Choy in my quiches. Soon, I'll be putting zucchini in them.
This week I have some leftover gyro meat. I'll use it, bok choy or spinach, onion, mushroom, sliced kalamata onions and feta cheese to make a "greek" quiche. I love zatar seasoning, and I have some on hand, so that will likely get used too.
Purslane [a wild plant, often pulled as a weed] is flourishing, here's more about how to harvest and prepare it
How to make wine slushies - with recipes
A few things blooming, the last week of June 2023
Lilies, bee balm, a sunflower, and coneflowers
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On The Farm This Month
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The turkeys are out of the brooder, and they are getting big FAST!
This gorgeous bull is staying with us for the next 7 weeks. Cows tend to go into heat every 3 weeks, so he'll live here through two full heat cycles, and we should have lots of beautiful baby calves next spring!
Molly, my dog, in a milk crate we strapped securely to my tractor so that she can ride along while I rake the hay. :-) We did two fields in square bales in June, in July the hay will be round baled, thankfully. Round bales are a lot less work!
I'm really not certain what is going on here...
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Seven new baby goats were born on the farm in June of 2023.
Goats milk, frozen in ice cube trays and ready for soap making
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JULY POETRY
As you may have noticed, this is a link intensive blog, with all of those links to free svgs. That has caused a few issues for me, with various algorithms and filters in the past few years. [Thus the missing posts and 404 errors...] To help balance this out, I frequently add poetry to the bottom of the posts. It seems to be helping.
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Poppies In July
Sylvia Plath
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep! -
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colorless. Colorless.
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London In July
Poem by Amy Levy
What ails my senses thus to cheat? What is it ails the place, That all the people in the street Should wear one woman's face? The London trees are dusty-brown Beneath the summer sky; My love, she dwells in London town, Nor leaves it in July. O various and intricate maze, Wide waste of square and street; Where, missing through unnumbered days, We twain at last may meet! And who cries out on crowd and mart? Who prates of stream and sea? The summer in the city's heart--
That is enough for me.
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A Calendar Of Sonnets: July
Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;
The garden reeks with an East Indian scent
From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent;
The white heat pales the skies from side to side;
But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content,
Like starry blooms on a new firmament,
White lilies float and regally abide.
In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed;
The lily does not feel their brazen glare.
In vain the pallid clouds refuse to share
Their dews, the lily feels no thirst, no dread.
Unharmed she lifts her queenly face and head;
She drinks of living waters and keeps fair.
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Answer July—
Where is the Bee—
Where is the Blush—
Where is the Hay?
Ah, said July—
Where is the Seed—
Where is the Bud—
Where is the May—
Answer Thee—Me—
Nay—said the May—
Show me the Snow—
Show me the Bells—
Show me the Jay!
Quibbled the Jay—
Where be the Maize—
Where be the Haze—
Where be the Bur?
Here—said the Year—
Emily Dickinson
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July - George Merideth
I
Blue July, bright July,
Month of storms and gorgeous blue;
Violet lightnings o'er thy sky,
Heavy falls of drenching dew;
Summer crown! o'er glen and glade
Shrinking hyacinths in their shade;
I welcome thee with all thy pride,
I love thee like an Eastern bride.
Though all the singing days are done
As in those climes that clasp the sun;
Though the cuckoo in his throat
Leaves to the dove his last twin note;
Come to me with thy lustrous eye,
Golden-dawning oriently,
Come with all thy shining blooms,
Thy rich red rose and rolling glooms.
Though the cuckoo doth but sing 'cuk, cuk,'
And the dove alone doth coo;
Though the cushat spins her coo-r-roo, r-r-roo -
To the cuckoo's halting 'cuk.'
II
Sweet July, warm July!
Month when mosses near the stream,
Soft green mosses thick and shy,
Are a rapture and a dream.
Summer Queen! whose foot the fern
Fades beneath while chestnuts burn;
I welcome thee with thy fierce love,
Gloom below and gleam above.
Though all the forest trees hang dumb,
With dense leafiness o'ercome;
Though the nightingale and thrush,
Pipe not from the bough or bush;
Come to me with thy lustrous eye,
Azure-melting westerly,
The raptures of thy face unfold,
And welcome in thy robes of gold!
Tho' the nightingale broods—'sweet-chuck-sweet' -
And the ouzel flutes so chill,
Tho' the throstle gives but one shrilly trill
To the nightingale's 'sweet-sweet.'
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