I dropped by the house late yesterday afternoon to check on the garden and was delighted to find robins feasting on the Saskatoon berry bushes. I was curious enough to try one of the berries...they're good! I might harvest some to use in cooking, but I'll share them with the birds. :-)

After doing some weeding and pruning of suckers from our Japanese quince, I worked on my laptop inside for about an hour, on a folding table set up during renovations. The contractors had gone home for the day, so it was nice to have the house all to myself even in its current war zone state.

Thanks so much to Bryan Snyder and Rick Hewett for their additions to my postcard collection! You can click on either postcard image below for a description and note, or visit my Flickr Postcard collection to see all the contributions so far. If you're in the mood to send me a postcard for the collection, please send to: Debbie Ridpath Ohi, 34 Eglinton Ave. W., P.O. Box 189, Toronto, ON Canada M4R 2H6. Thanks!

From Rick H.

Lots of interesting answers to my "healthy snack" poll. Here are a few:

"Healthy snack ideas: grapes, kiwi, apple, carrots with fat-free bean dip or fat-free hummus, air-popped popcorn (no extra stuff on it), make your own baked potato or sweet potato chips, cut up cantelope and watermelon, dried apple or banana chips (dehydrate in your oven or in a dehydrater)." (chirosinger)

"Snacks for me have to be *easy*, i.e. requiring little or no preparation, and I also quite like things to be crunchy/have a bite hence:
carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatos, grapes, bananas, apples, baby sweetcorn, mange tout, pre-cut lettuce/salad leaves, sometimes broccoli or cauliflower - all raw." (bardling)

"Most kinds of raw vegetables work for me. There are vegetables that I dislike when they are cooked -- prime example, cauliflower -- but I absolutely love raw. Especially when dipped in hummus, which is fairly quick&easy to prepare from a mix. (Though sometime I'd like to try making it from scratch.)
I would add green grapes, one of the tarter apples, raisins and, of course, plums. Plums: the fruit that tastes more like candy than most candies. :-)
Unsalted, unbuttered popcorn is mighty tasty as well." (ldwheeler)

From Bryan S.

"Veggies and dip.
Various cut-up fruit, especially mangoes, papaya, pineapple, melons, etc. but only if someone else cuts it up ('cause much as I love it, I hate the cutting up).
Great big oranges.
Sherbet/sorbet in fruit flavours.
Salsa and tortillas (not chips)
Great multi-grain crackers, especially with sesame seeds." (jhayman)

"Popcorn.
It's not exactly a snack, but nonfat milk flavored with something yummy and sugar-free is always a favorite.
Sometimes I like small, fresh fruits, especially cherries, seedless grapes, and raspberries." (figmo)

"Cheese.
Celery with peanut butter. Apples with peanut butter. Really, a spoon with peanut butter would do.
Yogurt.
Dried fruit.
Soy nuts.
Tofu. Raw. Chunks of it. mmmmm." (missquirt)

"sugar snap peas
gensoy soy nuts (deep sea salted -- the other flavors
are poison)
unsalted brazil nuts
red, orange, and yellow peppers
del monte sunfresh grapefruit slices"
(Rand)

"I've been known to snack on thin slices of gruyere (mmmm, cheese!) or raw carrots. In fact, carrots are really high on my list of best all-around snacks; tasty and crunchy and also good for you." (Dave Weingart)

"I'm not sure how healthy this is, but a friend recently got me hooked on crackers and spicy hummus... " (Lady Turpentine)

"My favourite healthy snacks are chunky fries with malt vinegar, Ben and Jerry's Heath Bar Crunch ice cream, Stone Crock Bakery doughnuts, and Tofu squares in light soy sauce. HAHAHAHA! As if.
Well, they must be healthy because I'm not dead yet." (aiabx)

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