Around the Campfire 🔥 (week 18)

Dear Campers

Happy Cinco de Mayo (and happy birthday to my dad)! Here's a quick recap of this week of reposts, in case you missed anything the second time around:

Posts ~

4/28: around the campfire (week 17)
4/29: make a cork trivet
4/30: tip-sy Tuesday: pill box travel container
5/1: bake a lemon cake
5/2: layered vegetable bake
5/3: framing and matting tips from Mark
5/4: gift a college survival kit

What's cooking ~

• Mediterranean Lentil Salad (recipe to follow soon!)
• grilled chicken, stir-fry veggies with teriyaki sauce, sticky rice
• steak, caesar salad, roasted baby potatoes
• tuna "over Nice" (a play on nicoise salad - grilled tuna, hardboiled eggs, capers, green beans, potatoes)
• grilled pork chops, sweet potato 
• bbq ribs, sweet kale chopped salad, roasted asparagus 

Other miscellaneous things keeping me busy this week ~

• read "The Vacationers" by Emma Straub, easy quick summer beach kind of read that I enjoyed. Also read "Why Not Me?" by Mindy Kaling.
• Forgot to tell you about other books I've recently read:
• "Our Kind of Cruelty" by Araminta Hall (dark and creepy - I really liked it!) 
• "House of Secrets" by Train Peterson (not dark or creepy and I really like it!)
• "Social Creature" by Tara Burton (dark and creepy - really good!) 
• working on growing a plumeria plant from a cutting we brought back from CA. I'll let you know how that goes (if it goes). I had to dry out the ends, dip in rooting powder, and plant in a mixture of 1/3 potting soil 2/3 perlite until roots form. We'll see...
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Hope you have a great week - check back often to see what's going on around here, maybe get an inspiration or two for things you'd like to try...or just to see if I make anything weird this week :)

Sincerely ~

Jill

camp counselor and wanna-be green thumb