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Sweet Peas in the Summer Time

31 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Sweet pea

Purple sweet pea.

Purple sweet pea.

They really do live up to their name!  Sweet pea.  They have a lovely sweet fragrance, which matches their very pretty flower.  I mentioned in an earlier post that I planted some at the front of my fruit garden in the hopes that they would help beautify it.  I’m not sure if that is exactly what you’d say they are doing, but I think they are lovely!

One way to add a little splash to the edible garden!

One way to add a little splash of color to the edible garden!

They are a somewhat delicate flower, showing off different shades of pinks and purples with a few white ones thrown in for good measure.

A little sun light goes a long way to showcase the flowers.

A little sun light goes a long way to showcase the flowers.

It is seriously difficult to make the darn chicken wire look attractive. I was going for the “curtain of flowers” look!  I am considering other options for the future though.  I’d love to source some sort of wooden tee-pee type structure.  I’ll let you know if (I mean when) I find them!

A light shade of pink sweet pea.

A light shade of pink sweet pea.

It rained today.  It felt like today was the day we’d make-up for all of the rain we didn’t get this summer! Lashing rain all day.  Yuck.  So I felt the need to post my pictures of sun kissed sweet peas.  Lots of ’em.

Multicolored sweet pea.

Multicolored sweet pea.

There’s no point in wasting perfectly happy pictures, right?  I do realize that the content for sweet peas is quite light, but I think that is O.K. now and again.

Climbing upwards.

Climbing upwards.

One sweet pea  in full bloom and one starting to open.

One sweet pea in full bloom and one starting to open.

Purple. What's not to like?

Purple. What’s not to like?

Sweet pea.

Sweet pea.

A peachy/pinky colored sweet pea (captured when the sun was behind a cloud!)

A peachy/pinky colored sweet pea.

And here's a picture of that cloud!

I love this picture because all I can see is a heart!

Sweet pea.

Sweet pea.

They are such a sweet, simple flower.  And so easy to grow!  I’m glad I planted them this year.  I hope they brightened your day like they did mine! 🙂

Dana

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Sunshine on a wild-flower garden.

29 Monday Jul 2013

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Blue cornflower, Killing grass organically, Orange wild poppy, poppies, Wild-flower garden

Wild flower garden.

Wild-flower garden.

I have a wild-flower garden.  It certainly isn’t a typical wild-flower garden.  Mainly that’s because its location is in the middle of my front yard.  Yeah, I know, that is weird.  I really enjoyed the flowers, but not the wild garden look!  I had just prepared this center bed and was still figuring out what to plant in it when a friend asked me if I’d like some wild-flower seeds.   It was as simple as that!  I thought I’d give it a go for a season and see how it looked.

Lots of poppies in my wild-flower garden.

Lots of poppies in my wild-flower garden.

Irish Wild-flowers.

Orange wild poppy.

Some of the flowers have been so pretty!  I love the orange wild poppies.

Orange wild poppies.

Orange wild poppies.

For a season it has been fun seeing what would grow and bloom.  There were a couple of cute surprises!

A single red flower.

A single red flower.

Beautiful blue.

Beautiful blue cornflower.

Lovely yellow.

Lovely yellow.

A bit of a mess!

A bit of a mess!

So the above photo is really what the wild-flower garden tends to look like: A mess!  I do like my poppies and daisies by the back of my wall. They certainly are anything but neat and tidy. But they are at the back!  I’m afraid this garden is too central to be so messy for me.

Wild orange poppies.

Wild orange poppies looking quite wild.
Wild orange poppies.

Wild orange poppies.

Well it definitely was fun having such lovely flowers, especially to photograph!

Just a bit of blue ...

Just a bit of blue (blue cornflower) …

Yet another poppy!

I love poppies in the evening sunlight!

Poppies before the storm.

Poppies before the storm.

Too many pictures of poppies?

Too many pictures of poppies?

The skies cleared again.

The skies cleared again.

Another learning experience for me!  But I am delighted to have had the chance to photograph such beauties.  I hope you’ve enjoyed them too.

Dana

More beautiful blue.

Blue cornflower.

End of July Garden Tour featuring Brussels Sprouts and Globe Artichokes

26 Friday Jul 2013

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Brussels Sprouts, Globe Artichoke, peas, Shasta Daisy, Sweet pea

Brussels Sprouts & Pumpkins.

Brussels Sprouts & Pumpkins.

The garden is really looking full!  The Brussels sprouts plants are getting huge! The stalks are just starting to produce itty bitty teeny weeny little sprouts!

Brussels Sprouts (teeny weeny ones!)

Brussels Sprouts (teeny weeny ones!)

Yeah, well, maybe you can’t see them on a compressed picture.  You might just have to take my word that they are actually there!  Every day there seems to be just a bit more growth.

Brussels Sprouts' large purplish colored leaves.

Brussels Sprouts’ large purplish colored leaves.

Brussels Sprouts are a new adventure for us.  We started our garden three seasons ago, and every year we have expanded and tried something new.  I love that!  But I really think we need to add another bed for next year.  My pumpkin plants are squished!  I think I want a nice big bed just for pumpkins. 🙂

The veggie beds.

The veggie beds.

Here is a look at the other side of the garden.  The potatoes are doing well.  We’re still eating “last year’s” potatoes!  The peas are almost ready for picking.

Peas.

Peas.

Peas.

Peas.

Garlic, carrots, swede (turnip), parsnips, beets, rainbow chard, and more pumpkins.

Garlic, carrots, swede (turnip), parsnips, beets, rainbow chard, and more pumpkins.

Here’s what I’ve learned this season: Swede need their own bed since their leaves will cover up everything around them!  Carrots need to go in the higher beds to avoid carrot fly. We could never plant too much beet root (not enough of them germinated this year).  Planting onions from seed is easy.  That sticking extra pumpkin plants into one half of a tiny little veggie beds was a crazy idea.  I think a big bed right next to those veggie beds is just the thing!  Now to convince my husband 😉

View of garden with Sweet Pea.

A very busy picture! My focus was on the Sweet Pea at the front of the garden.

We planted some sweet pea at the top of our fruit garden (well, it is mostly fruit).  I wanted something fun to brighten it up.  I think they’ve done a good job.  We were quite late in planting them, so they aren’t in all of their glory just yet.

Sweet pea.

Sweet pea change color as they age.

Sweet pea.

Sweet pea.

Different shades of sweet pea.

Different shades of sweet pea.

It rather felt a bit like cheating when I bought a globe artichoke plant this year.  Isn’t that silly?  I have a few packets of seeds, but just never got around to planting them.  But in the end, I’m delighted that I did buy the plant because look what I have now:

Globe Artichoke plant.

Globe Artichoke plant.

This is one rather tall plant!  I have counted 5 baby artichokes on it!

A few of the artichokes.

A few of the artichokes.

Artichoke up close.

Artichoke up close.

When do I confess that I have never had a fresh artichoke???  I love canned ones though! Nothing ventured, nothing gained!  (Guess who will be searching the internet  looking up how to cook a fresh artichoke?)

The front garden with a globe artichoke plant.

The front garden with a globe artichoke plant.

I have the globe artichoke in one of my flower beds.  I’ve seen them in gardens before and I found them to be a showy plant, and here is where I wanted mine to perform.

Flower garden with a globe artichoke plant and a view!

Flower garden with a globe artichoke plant and a view.

What simple pleasures!  How lovely to be able to plant food and flowers and enjoy their beauty and their taste!  Have you planted something new this year?

Dana

Some of my Shasta Daisy :-)

Some of my Shasta Daisy 🙂

Lavender Wands & my first Lavender Wreath.

22 Monday Jul 2013

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lavender wands, lavender wreath

Lavender wreath with dried roses - all from the garden.

Lavender wreath with dried roses – all from the garden.

I love lavender!  Better still, I love having lavender in the garden.  Even just brushing past it produces the beautiful lavender scent.  July is the month for lavender here in Ireland.  I have lavender that can be quite showy, especially this month.  I was delighted to see 5 established plants when we moved into our home three years ago. I don’t know their exact variety, but I think they are possibly Grosso Lavandin, or maybe Lavandula x intermedia.  I will admit that I am really not sure!

My lavender - possibly Grosso Lavandin.

My lavender – possibly Grosso Lavandin (or maybe Lavandula x intermedia!).

Lavender prefers well drained soil, and lots of sun.  Honestly, I’m not sure why my plants do well.  This year, sure, it has been sunny and dry, but this is certainly not the case every year.  Last year was exceptionally wet, and I really thought the plants were lost to root rot. At the end of last year’s season I trimmed all of the stems off as I do every year (cutting off about 2/3 of the stem).  But I didn’t expect them to survive.  In fact, I ordered some more plants!

Lavender angustifolia in a raised bed.

Lavender angustifolia in a raised bed.

Six new plants!  Lavender angustifolia seemed to be a similar variety to my plants.  I put them in a new raised bed.  They seem quite happy!

Lavender.

My well established lavender plants.

Some of our lavender.

Some of our lavender.

It really is a fantastic amount of lavender.  Just this season I’ve made 24 lavender wands, and one very full wreath, and I still have a lot left to dry.  Yay!

The first year we moved into the house my sister-in-law suggested that I really should do something with all of that lavender!  She was right, and so I started with just drying the flowers.  Then with suggestions from friends, I moved on to making lavender wands, and this year I added making a wreath.

Making a lavender wreath.

Materials for making a lavender wreath:  a wreath form, floral pins (some are in the center of the wreath), some floral wire, and a wire cutter.

Small bunches of lavender.

Small bunches of lavender.

Floral pins to attach the bunches.

Floral pins to attach the bunches.

Easy peasy :-)

Easy peasy 🙂

Making a wreath is easy, once you have the right materials.  I like using a straw-form wreath. While I was home in the States,  I picked up this small 10 inch wreath for  just $2.99 at Jo-Ann fabrics. I first tied the small bunches of lavender with some floral wire, and then  I used floral pins to attach them to the wreath.  That’s it!  You just keep attaching small bunches and work your way around the wreath.

Work in progress.

Work in progress.

I have so much more appreciation for lavender wreaths now!  It does take some time to cut the lavender, wire it, and fill in the wreath.  It is usually helpful to have some Spanish moss, or some kind of filler for the very outside of the wreath. I didn’t have any of that so my wreath is quite full with lavender!

Super full!

Super full side view!

Some dried roses from the garden.

Some dried roses from the garden.

I’m still not sure about a ribbon.  For now, I really like just having the three small dried roses.  They are also fragrant!

Wreath with our Failte (Welcome) plaque.

Wreath with our Failte (Welcome) plaque in the front hall.

I knew that the wreath was going to use up a lot of my lavender, so before making it I made a bunch of wands.  They are rather quirky and unusual and I love them!  If you are wondering what to do with them, I have a few ideas.  They make a nice hostess gift, can go in clothes drawers or closets, a few in a vase are fun, or simply laying on the bathroom windowsill. The lavender scent will last for years.   I posted about making lavender wands last year. You can see that post here:  https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/english-lavender-in-full-bloom-lavender-wands/

Lavender wands.

Lavender wands.

The trick is to work with the lavender before the stems become woody.  Last week was the perfect time for mine.  I like to have a couple of stems with some blooms open, but for the most part they are made with lavender that isn’t yet open.

Tie up a bunch of between 21 and 23 stems.

Tie up a bunch of stems.  I use between 21 – 25 stems.

You weave the ribbon through the stems as you fold the stems over.

Weave the ribbon through the stems as the stems are folded over.

This year I discovered a new way to finish the wands.  I have to give credit to Robb, of the “how’s Robb” blog.  I came across it, and loved how he neatly knotted the ribbon on the handle of the wand so it doesn’t unravel.  Here is the link to his blog on lavender wands:      http://howsrobb.blogspot.ie/2013/05/how-to-make-lavender-wands.html

Knotting the ribbon.

Knotting the ribbon.

Simple knot, then turn and go in opposite direction.

Simple knot.

Then pull it tight, and go in opposite direction.

Then pull it tight, and go in opposite direction.

I just looked at his page, and with a few tries I figured out how he slipped the ribbon through a loop, and then turned it in the opposite direction to do the same again.  Easy!  And it keeps the ribbon nice and tight.  I’m glad I came across his page!

Lavender wands.

Lavender wands.

Lavender wands.

Lavender wands.

I love all of the different colors.  Did I mention how relaxing it is to work with lavender?  🙂  Between the weaving, and the scent of lavender, I enjoy my time working with lavender.   I discovered last year that I could sell the wands, too.  So I’m doing that again this year.  Right now I’m just selling locally, €5 per wand. But who knows, maybe sometime in the near future I’ll be selling globally!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my little lessons on working with lavender!

Dana

Some other flowers among the lavender.

Some other flowers among the lavender.

Tastes of Summer

17 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Lemonade., Strawberry Ice Cream

A cool drink of lemonade.

A refreshing drink of lemonade.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned that Ireland is having a most glorious summer.  Warm, sunny days with a slight breeze; it doesn’t get better than that!  With no hectic schedules like we have during the school year, we’ve been able to relax and enjoy the good weather.

Making lemonade.

Our littlest one making lemonade.

Lemonade is really easy to make! We have a very basic juicer, which is perfect for squeezing lemons or oranges.  We used 3 & 1/2 lemons, a quarter cup of sugar, and then filled the jug with water (about 2 liters or 2 quarts).  Ours was tart!  You can of course make it sweeter. 🙂

It is lovely to be able to make simple dinners, too.  Wander about the garden, see what needs to be harvested and throw something together!

A look at the garden in July.

A look at the garden in July. The Brussels Sprouts are on the left, some very small pumpkin plants on the right, a mini-green house, and then the strawberry beds behind.

The miniature green house was an experiment.  I bought it for next to nothing at the end of last summer.  I originally wanted to try planting eggplant (aubergine) in it, but those seedling didn’t survive.  So in went a zucchini (courgette) plant to see how it would do.  It is doing amazingly well!

A very happy zucchini plant.

A very happy zucchini plant.

O.K., I’ll admit that zucchini plants are really easy to grow!  But last year many of my fruit would start to grow and then drop off.  I’m not sure what happened. Despite losing so many of the fruit, since we had a bunch of plants last year my children grew quite sick of zucchini.  I made about a dozen loaves of zucchini bread (read “cake”), too, so we really did have quite a lot.  This year I took a chance and only have one plant.

Our happy zucchini plant in its own mini-green house!

Our happy zucchini plant in its own mini-green house!

The fruit are growing at a fast pace in the heat of the green house, providing us with just the right amount of zucchini!

Our vegetable beds. Potatoes in the right front bed.

Our vegetable beds. Potatoes in the right front bed.  Last year’s potatoes and our pea plants on the left.

What to go with zucchini for dinner?  Some spuds!  So here is my potato story:  We planted two types of potatoes last year; an early crop and a main crop. They both were fantastic, and we were very happy with our first year of potato planting.   This year, we were moving things around a bit, and decided to just have one bed of main crop (Sarpo Mira) potatoes.  The second bed we planted with peas.  So I was a bit befuddled when potato plants started appearing in the pea bed (talk about a novice gardener!).  Turns out I didn’t dig out all of the potatoes last year, and even better still, those potatoes from last year are delicious!  Woohoo!

Last year's early crop of potatoes!

Last year’s early crop of potatoes!

A two for one deal on potatoes!

A two for one deal on potatoes!

I’m especially pleased because as we eat those potatoes, I can finally weed around the pea plants.  It was a huge mess!

This whole post came about mainly from our dinner the other night.  Really, it was superb, if I do say so myself!  My sister-in-law’s husband is a farmer.  I’m trying to figure out how to politely write that we ate some steaks from one of their cows.  I’m not sure there is a polite way to say it!  I have never had anything like it.  It was amazing.  Kinda like eating your own veggies, and you’re sitting there eating and wondering how the supermarket food tastes so much different…  It was just like that! 🙂

The fixings!

The fixings! We love grilling!  Even the zucchini goes great on the grill outside.

Home grown dinner!

Home grown dinner. (photos courtesy of my husband who did an awesome job of cooking dinner!)

We’re not done yet.  Those strawberries I posted about on my blog?  Yep, we used them to make strawberry ice cream.  This was our first time making ice cream with egg yolks.  We don’t have an ice cream maker, so after putting it in the freezer we had to take it out every 30 minutes or so and whisk it up.  I have to say that it was definitely worth the effort!

Strawberry Puree.

Strawberry Puree.

Yum!

Yum!

Mixing the strawberries with the cream & egg mixture.

Mixing the strawberries with the cream & egg mixture.

Two containers for the freezer.

Two containers for the freezer.

Should I apologize for the lighting on the ice cream photos?  I know it’s too dark.  Just one of those things where the lighting was not going to work with me!  I just thought I’d give you a little glimpse of how we made it.  A few blogs helped me out with this recipe!  The recipe is from Ree, of The Pioneer Woman  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2013/07/strawberry-ice-cream/ .  She is beyond amazing.  The Gourmand Mom http://thegourmandmom.com/  helped me out by connecting me with David Lebovitz, of Living the Sweet Life in Paris, who let me know to keep whisking the ice cream or I’d have icy custard!  http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2007/07/making-ice-crea-1/

Homemade strawberry ice cream!

Homemade strawberry ice cream!

My 13 year old daughter was a huge help in making the ice cream, I have to say. Having her help allows me to get so much more done!   She reads my blog, too… and lets me know what she thinks!  🙂

Those are some of our tastes of summer!  I hope you have been enjoying some wonderful tastes of summer, too!

Dana

Happy summer flowers!

Happy summer flowers!

Bumper crop of Strawberries & an Angel food Cake recipe (with Strawberries)!

15 Monday Jul 2013

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Angel food cake, growing strawberries

Bumper crop of Strawberries!

Bumper crop of Strawberries!

What a glorious summer we have had!  Sunny, warm days (maybe even described as hot?!), with just a hint of a breeze. We love it!  In the five years we’ve lived in Ireland, this is definitely the best stretch of weather we’ve experienced.  Our strawberries seem to be quite happy in the heat.   W.O.W.!  We have had tons of them! (only slight exaggeration)

Our two strawberry beds.

Our two strawberry beds.

Last year was our first year growing strawberries and it didn’t go well.  We had too many plants, too close together, and the netting was impossible to get on and off easily.  It didn’t help that it was a horrible year for slugs, and a very wet season!  So we made some changes this year, and we even got lucky with the weather.  We have less plants and more space to get in and around to pick berries and to weed.  The netting is easier to manage this year too, so even the kids can take it off and cover it up again without hassle.  It is just so lovely to have fresh berries!  For us, this is definitely becoming one of our “tastes of summer”!

A ceramic bunny helping to keep the birds away ;-)

A ceramic bunny helping to keep the birds away 😉

Seeing red.

Seeing red.

It really is great to be able to go into the garden and pick your own strawberries.  In America, we used to enjoy going to farms to pick strawberries.  But I have to say that this is something else.  What I’ve learned this year is that the older plants should be replaced with the newer ones.  So later in the season we’ll be planting and replacing and hoping for the best for next year!

My two girls with their haul of strawberries one sunny morning.

My two girls with their haul of strawberries one sunny morning.

Super fresh!

Super fresh!

Given the nice weather, and the abundance of strawberries, I decided to make some Angel food cake.  I have a recipe that I love that calls for raspberries, so it was an easy switch for the strawberries.  We actually made the cake twice in the last week; once using the Amaretto, which is an Italian almond liqueur for the sauce, and once without.  Either way is delicious!

10 egg whites...

10 egg whites…

Given the warm days, I was glad for a rather quick and simple recipe.  It gets even easier for me since my daughter is a super help in the kitchen.  We’re about at the stage where I’m just the “helper”!

Cut up strawberries for inside the angel food cake.

Cut up strawberries for inside the angel food cake.

Pure fluffiness!

Pure fluffiness!

The strawberry sauce.

The strawberry sauce was so easy to make!

This isn't a proper tall angel food cake pan, but it did the trick.

This isn’t a proper tall angel food cake pan, but it did the trick.

Yum!  I have a couple of recipes that I use this with.

Yum! I have a couple of recipes that I use this with.  I just realized that the bottle doesn’t actually say “Amaretto” on it!  But the box does…

Yeah, I snuck  some flowers into the pic! (I had to look up "snuck"!  It is actually used in the US & Canada, but not here.

Yeah, I snuck some flowers into the pic! (I had to look up the term “snuck”! It is actually used in the US & Canada, but not here.)

We were quite happy with the results!

We were quite happy with the results!

I hope you are enjoying some lovely weather where ever you are, and with something tasty to eat too!

Dana

Angel food cake with raspberry Amaretto sauce

The New Basics Cookbook
Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins

10 egg whites at room temp
1 ¼ tsp cream of tartar
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp almond extract
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 cup cake flour (2 tblsp corn starch in 1 cup plain flour measure)
1 cup fresh raspberries
Raspberry Amaretto Sauce (recipe below)

Preheat oven 350 degrees. (176 C)

  1. Beat the egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt in a large glass bowl (not metal) with an electric mixer until they form soft peaks. Add the vanilla and almond extracts.  Then gradually add the sugar, beating until the whites are stiff, but not dry, and shiny.
  2. Sift the flour onto the egg whites and sprinkle the raspberries over the top. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the flour and raspberries.
  3. Spoon the mixture into an ungreased 10 inch nonstick tube pan, and bake until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean, 40 minutes.
  4. Invert the pan onto a cake rack and let it cool completely without removing the cake from the pan.
  5. When the cake is cool, invert the pan onto a serving platter.  Remove the pan carefully, loosening the cake slightly around the edges if necessary, and serve with raspberry sauce.

 Raspberry Amaretto Sauce

 2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries, thawed if frozen
½ cup confectioners’ sugar
1 tblsp fresh lemon juice
¼ cup amaretto liqueur

  1. Puree the raspberries in a blender or food processor. Add the confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice, and amaretto, and continue to process until smooth.
  2. Strain the sauce to remove the seeds, and serve.

Happy Fourth of July!

03 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Our American flag.

Our American flag.

Proud to be an American…  I don’t think it can be explained, American pride that is.  For me, it just is a part of me, no matter where I’ve lived.  During my last visit home, I particularly noticed all of the American flags waving on flag poles at everyone’s homes.  It was so nice to see!

My parents' American flag is put up every day.

My parents’ American flag is put up every day. I remember having this be one of my jobs as a child.

Always at the front!  Ellen's American flag.

Always at the front! Ellen and Darryl ‘s American flag.

As long as the weather is good, you will usually find the flag outside, and in good condition.

Ed & Jen's flag in perfect condition.

Ed & Jen’s flag in perfect condition.

Rob & Lisa's flag looks really nice in the breeze.

Rob & Lisa’s flag looks really nice in the breeze.

I bet my friends are going to smile when they see their flags here.  I just loved seeing them (the friends and the flags!).

Independence Day Cake!

Independence Day Cake!

The 4th of July celebrations usually involve a parade, and then getting together with friends and family for a barbeque or picnic, and field games.    The activities would be finished off with some spectacular fireworks after dark.  It really is a wonderful way to celebrate!

American flag cake.

American flag cake.

I don’t know where I got it in my head to try making a flag cake this year.  Thankfully, I had the help of my daughter.  It was a bit time consuming (I think we work kinda slow!), but it was neat to have something different.  We celebrated a bit early with this cake, which gave me the chance to post it here! 🙂

Even though we live abroad, we still celebrate.  We’ll be meeting some other Americans for a family picnic.  Might not have a parade, but it’ll have the American spirit!

Happy 4th of July!
Dana

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