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| BROWN TROUT FILET |
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| BROWNSTONE TRAIL PRAIRIE PLANTING... |
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| ...SUNFLOWERS, BROWN EYED SUSANS... |
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| ...MILLFOIL, BROWN EYED SUSANS, BIG AND LITTLE BLUESTEM... |
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| ...BIG BLUESTEM (TURKEY FOOT) FLOWERS |
Wednesday, 8:00 AM. 60 degrees F, wind N, light to moderate and at times gusty. The sky is mostly cloudy with dark rain clouds to the north. The humidity is 82% and the barometer is up, at 30.11". It looks like rain but doesn't feel like it and I don't think it will.
Just as I was about to put some pork chops on the grill for dinner last evening, neighbor Sherman appeared with a beautiful brown trout, fresh from the lake. I immediately switched the menu and we had trout, sweet corn and ripe tomatoes from the garden for dinner. Done to perfection on the grill, the trout, not out of the water an hour, was gourmet fare. Cooking instructions: salt and pepper fish fillet liberally, add freshly squeezed lemon, place fillet on aluminum foil on hot grill skin side down. Cook until salmon pink flesh color just turns light pink, and white around the edges. Serve immediately.
The prairie planting on the Brownstone trailhead that we installed on June 28th has grown beautifully, even the grasses are blooming the first season. It was not a complicated project, but it is one of the most successful prairie plantings I have ever designed and planted. Liatris, Asters, prairie milkweed and others are also blooming.
l have been preaching "Buy American" for years, it's hard and takes patience and reading labels, but there are more AmerIcan products on the shelves than you may realize. Almanac readers Steve and Barb Robertson recently sent me the following web site that has great suggestions on how we consumers, without any government (which never accomplishes anything, anyway) intervention, can create at least a million new American jobs by "Buying American." Check it out, and help us all out, at http://www.millionjobsproject.us/
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