I'm just talking about my garden :) It's over and done with for the summer! I'm always sad and always GLAD! So much fun, but so much work. This was a great garden year for us. Alas, my volunteer pumpkins did not make it. Well, they matured and I had some fine specimens, but just too early for fall decorating... they started rotting and then got attacked by squash bugs. Yuck.. oh well...
Tony's tractor made small work of the remains of the garden. Still needs a little care, but all the vines and everything have been piled up to burn after a good rain. Wonder when that'll be? I thought for SURE we'd get in on the tail-end of that storm that went through far northeast Texas yesterday, but it dried up before it got here.
The last of my fresh tomatoes... Boy howdy, I hated to pull up those tomato vines. But it was time. Yes, there were still a very few small 'maters on them, but the heat is in the 100's again, and it was just a matter of time. It's been hot and they were beginning to get spots on them that would rot before they got good and ripe. So these were the last of the lucky ones... Maybe a big salad with chunks of tomatoes in it for supper. Maybe hamburgers with a couple of big slices. Maybe I'll just stand over the sink and sprinkle a little salt on 'em and eat 'em and let the juice run down my arm and savor every last summer bite!
My freezer is full to overflowing, the top, the bottom, the door, AND my fridge freezer - not to mention all the canned goods from this year's harvest. The good Lord has really blessed us here on this little piece of land this year! Just look at the hay up there in the top picture! It's been lush and green and abundant, too!
New Topic --- I can't walk outside or open the back door unless THIS happens...
Of all the cluckin' and fussin' and pushin' and shovin' - you just wouldn't believe. I'd like to think they love me for me, but NOOOO. They only love me for what treats I bring! Or they wanna get out and roam and look for bugs. They fall all over themselves at the door to the pen. When I open it, they jump and try to see what I'm bringing. Lately (and you may have seen it in the freezer) I've been giving them watermelon - FROZEN watermelon in the hot afternoons. They love it - it's cold, it gives them something to do, and I'm hoping it helps keep them cool. They also love when I spray water into a corner and make some puddles. They get in that mud and pick around and I guess it cools them off, too.
Well, my dear ones - gotta run - one last thing... here's what's on my easel... just a sneak peak - I'll be posting over at my art blog, South Light, in a short. Have a great weekend!
Oh yeah - and keep yer dress down...
