Fair warning...

There's definitely a big post coming up. I'll be typing it in this afternoon. I'm one of those old-fashioned types who does their real writing longhand, and the edit as I type. If I eas going for a real publishing submission, I'd do yet another edit after its on the computer, but I'm a little more casual about the blog.

Subject : Tomatoes. Whooo Hooo.

Everybody else writes about them, why not me?

Working.

Yeah. Working real hard. So hard, I have time to take a pic of the giant star made of cowboy hats that's dangling overhead.



You know... the worst part about working am event with 6000 women, is the eye burning cloud of cologne...

Ugh

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know that I said there would be a big post soon. Well, life got in the way. And tomorrow and Friday, I will be doing 15 hour days followed by an 11 hour day on Saturday, ushering for a trade show. All those who have done this show before say it's full of women who feel published to get out of control... joy, joy, joy.
I'm pretty sure that by the time Sunday rolls around, I'll bear a strange resemblance to an extra from the set of Walking Dead. Oh well.

Happy 4 th

Well it's 2 am and it looks like I finally may get some sleep. We're in an unincorporated part of the county, which means 4 th of July fireworks started last weekend. Threets been some window rattling going on tonight, but it will be only more so tomorrow. Actually the noise isn't that bothersome. I worry more about the fire hazard aspect...

Got a big post coming up, actually may split it in parts. Not sure yet...

Tomatoes

Spent the morning canning tomatoes. You kinda have to can them, as there's no way you will survive eating them. Really, the human stomach only takes so much before it says... " uhh, a break here..."

In addition to these, we're also growing yellow tomatoes, which are a little sweeter and a lot less acid. Less acid means better for the table and not as good to can, but I don't know what I'd do with canned yellow tomatoes anyway. Anemic marinara?

This year we are having assign absolute plague of toads. Or, as they're called in Texas, toad frogs. Last night, I walked outside to find no less than 8 of the obnoxious little amphibians on the front porch. Actually, they're kinda cute.

But they did inspire me too write a proposal for the Syfy channel. " Texas chainsaw zombie toad apocalypse' I'd give a synopsis, but the title is pretty self explanatory actually...

Gardening, gardening, gardening

Today I spent the entire morning planting seeds. Okra, Kentucky wonder pole beans, yellow wax beans, royal burgundy beans, cantaloupe, pickling cucumbers. We had room after all that harvesting and canning yesterday, and we can usually get several crops in every summer. Hard work, but satisfying

Harvesting...

We've been harvesting this morning.

These are the carrots... although they look more like sweet taters. We have heavy clay soil here, so they don't make those long roots, but they taste nice and sweet. We also got in beets, which were in the boiling pot before I could get a pic, and some onions, which I didn't bother taking a pic of. As soon as we get it resulted, in go some green beans, okra, and turnip greens. Nothing better than fresh!

Little goth Bob Monday...

Bob found a petunia today, growing in the asphalt.


If petunias are allowed, they self seed everywhere. These volunteers are rarely as beautiful as their parents, but they are impressive in mass...

Lantana

The lantana, a staple of southern gardens, have syarted to put on their show... here's the old fashioned standard...

And one of the modern hybrids...

I hg Abe to say, I like the old fashioned ones better. The modern ones are better behaved, and have good color, but they're not as hardy and more demanding. Have a great day!