A good Sunday morning to all.
72 going up to 82, actually cool, with lots of rain and even a flash flood forecast for tonight.
Where is all this rain coming from?
The consolation is that the veggies are starting to come in, those that love the rain. The strawberries are very unhappy with all this water, and the
berries taste, for want of a better word, watered down.
Picked our first pepper, came from the hot pepper patch though stuff got mixed in and we really don't know what is coming up.
Can anyone recognize what it is? I think it's hot, I rubbed the outside and got a "heat" smell. or maybe I just picked a nice golden pepper too soon...
Picked eight of those beautiful and utterly destructive worms off them a few days ago, it's amazing what one worm can eat in a night. Just strips the little plant.
All worms have been recycled properly.
And here we are, not even July yet, and the potato patch gave up some beautiful red potatoes. Going to have a steak tonight with those potatoes, and a salad with our own lettuce, and our first cucumber and a few of those beans we picked. I can never tell whether something is an edible pod pea or a bean or something...lot to learn about beans. Never grew them on the farm growing up and have no idea why. So I'm not sure whether to pick them small or let them grow and get peas/beans out of the pod. The beans were all "party planted" so I have no idea what went there. We have melons starting to grow, which is cool to see. Last year the bugs got them all. We are organically spraying this year, and all this rain is just perfect to make those melons grow. I forgot to wrap the celery, which I know I have to do, those stalks are almost big enough to eat already.
Our neighbors now look up in interest when the colored plastic buckets come out of the back of the Suburban. They know the goodies are arriving...we have one Indian neighbor, a Patel as one might expect, and they love the hot peppers and frankly anything else we bring over. They are sort of amazed I think that in their first year there, people they don't know come and bring them food. They were so cute with it, mother, father, grandparents ,and one adorable young daughter. They returned the favor last summer by bringing over some Indian specialties. Now I like almost any food, and weird is ok. I'm not even sure what they brought, it was beyond strange... and some was so hot we couldn't eat it, both of us have acid reflux which is why we give away the hot peppers. Need to remember to tell folk NOT to return them in the casseroles...
So of course I told the Patels everything was delicious, what else do you say?
There is nothing like pulling up some red potato plants and seeing all those prizes come out of the ground. We liken it to an Easter egg hunt. marvelous fun.
Need to chill today. Too much driving around, which I'm not allowed to do so I need a quiet day at home. yeah right. Let's see, the powerwasher beckons on the back deck, the lawn needs mowing, etc, etc. Can't do the powerwashing yet, but I can ride the JD mower around very slowly. I am really sick of this hard collar, but when I don't wear it, pain is a very effective reminder to keep it on. Two more weeks to wear it, I can do this. My neck already has way more movement that I could do before the operation, and I'm not even supposed to be turning my head yet... no more click, pop, grinding noises. Just have to be patient, which I really fail at...
