HeyJaredSlavs in the Garden
A Balkan family's adventures in country life in southern Bulgaria. With jokes and recipes.
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Down South walkin’ (opens the original)
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About a month ago, I posted some pictures from my walking route. The walking was encouraged by a close friend. She started walking a lot earlier than me for health purposes, refusing to just pop pills and hope to feel better. Amazingly (for some doctors), the walking worked. And while she walked and walked every day, Anna took pictures.Today, we’re all going to take a photo walk around the village of Mogila, which is about 60 km southeast of Dalboki. The landscapesIn the mountains, the sky is bo
Rainy day (opens the original)
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This year has been perfect, seasonally speaking. Winter was as bitter as it should be, spring lasted more than a week — in fact it lasted all the way to late June — and summer temperatures peaked at 36 C, which is only right and proper in these parts. And last night, we got our first autumn rain, the kind that starts a bit hesitantly, testing the ground, gathering courage, and letting itself go. With nothing productive to do in this kind of weather (because I’m too busy enjoying it), I decided t
A walk (opens the original)
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About a month ago, encouraged by a close friend, I started taking long walks in the nearby forest. I used to think I was getting enough physical activity fiddling in the garden but, as it turned out, I wasn’t. I needed to get moving more. So I did.<img alt=""
A rotten tomato year (opens the original)
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Active gardening season is drawing to a close, the weather has been almost perfect since the start of the year, and one would think this would make for abundant harvest. Of course, one would be wrong.Starting with the spinach, which I must have sown too late, so only two plants sprouted and died before doing anything much in the way of leaves, continuing with the onions, of which only a quarter deigned make an appearance, and further continuing with the potatoes that turned out small and annoyin
Courgette boats (opens the original)
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