Apple Slices are Cut Better with an Apple Slicer

 Oh I love apples. They can be either sweet or tart. I like both these flavors. My favorite apple, of all apples though, is the Pink Lady. Oh it tastes like candy and is not around year round.

With this said, when eating any apple, I highly suggest you cut it into slices. Eating apple slices is a fun way to share your apple with family and friends and is great for dipping into any sauce. 

Cutting apples into slices, with this Johnny Apple Slicer also saves on letting any apple go to waste because when biting into a full apple, it is more likely to not be eaten right away. It is highly likely a full apple will be placed down on a table, with all intents of the person eating the apple, to come back and finish it off.

When an apple is cut into slices, it makes eating an apple quicker and easier to share with family and friends. Also, either before, or after cutting an apple, it can be peeled if a person so desires.

Looking for a healthy snack is right at your fingertips when using the Johnny Apple Slicer to make eating an apple fun and easy to share.

 **In full disclosure: this product was given to me in exchange for a fair and honest opinion.**

My Backyard Garden Box

Last Christmas my parents gave me a garden box for my backyard. At that time, I only put together one box. Well, this week I put together the other box and placed it next to the other box. Yesterday my hubby and one of my twins went to one of our home garden stores and bought three bags of garden soil. Last night we put one in the box and today I put in another bag. 

After the bags were added, I watered the soil, let it sit for a while, then I sowed some seeds for lettuce, spinach and zucchini. I think the spinach and zucchini might not grow at this time, I never know...I do hope it begins to get cooler so the lettuce will grow. I have sowed three types of lettuce: salad mix, head and some other type. 

I certainly love sowing seeds, heirloom seeds, in my vegetable. True, it takes time to see the results, if any at all, from my sowing seeds, but it is exciting to see these tiny vegetable seeds grow and grow. So far since I began sowing seeds last winter, I have eaten lettuce and squash, hoping to eat my tomatoes. My tomatoes are turning red! Yeah. 

I tried to grow red cabbage last winter, but they did not grow. The plants grew and they were awesome, but no cabbage. I will try again this winter and keep trying until I see some results.

Well, here are some pictures of what I have right now in my vegetable garden.

Enjoy!  

Two of my beefsteak tomatoes. One more is growing, it is behind the red tomatoes.

This is my Cantelope growing. More flowers then fruit yet. I just planted three types of Carrots and Pumpkin seeds.

This is supposed to be an apple tree. I have never seen what apples trees look like growing, so I shall see. Emma planted these apple seeds. I think it is a Granny Smith.

These are supposed to be cherry seeds and or lettuce? The one on the left looks like lettuce and cherry (maybe?) on right. Abby planted the cherry seeds.

This is my new garden box. I sowed thee types of lettuce this morning, spinach and zucchini. I really hope, and pray, they begin growing. But, it is still hot as it is August...I shall see.

Finally, these are two colors of Morning Glory flowers. As they began growing, it began wrapping around the trellis. I did not like that so I attached some sticky hooks to the fence and put the flowers on the hooks. The hooks fall off sometimes, I just keep re attaching them. The flowers are a light purple and pink.