Strange things are afoot at the Circle K...

The other day I came home and caught something out of the corner of my eye...what was that movement in the old truck that no one drives? Flapping against the window was a little finchy bird looking quite exasperated. I promptly let it out and then searched for how it got in. There is no way! I still have no clue how it got in there.

Later that afternoon I wandered around the garden area, finding a spot to take some photos of new shinies to put in my etsy shop. I caught another something out of the corner of my eye in the raised garden box. What the...

Carrots! A whole row of carrots! First, it's amazing that they weren't destroyed because the deer eat everything around here. Secondly, I distinctly remember pulling all the carrots late in the Fall.

As near as I can figure, they were some leftover seed that was simply too crowded to grow while the other carrots were there. *shrug*

If you have never grown your own carrots you don't know how good they smell when you pull them and how much flavor they have as opposed to the kind you buy in baggies at the store. I don't know what they do to leech the flavor, but it happens somehow.

So I pulled me some carrots and grabbed some leeks I'd grown that hadn't been eaten yet and made a nice pan of fresh roasted garden veggies...in February. What a treat!

To roast them I cut them into small pieces and lay them in a baking dish coated with non-stick spray. Then I drizzle them with olive oil and sprinkle on plenty of herbs.

I got this mix for Christmas and I love it!

I baked my vegetables at 350 degrees until tender (about an hour).

And since I mentioned my photography was what led to this discovery - I did add a few new items to my etsy shop. Take a sneak peek...