bat-peep time!

after returning from Kristyn's wedding too much later than we should have and subsequently only sleeping 6 hours, i'm lazy. add to this that it looks depressing and overcast out, i did one quick garden walk-through and in about a week we're going to be tomato-ed. a pumpkin is perfectly shaped and the size of an infants' head.(ew, what?) okra looks like a couple might happen sometime maybe next week...one of our pepper plants flowered! due to some unfortunate-pepper-happenings(or not-so-much) i have no idea which kind it is,but whatever! i like peppers of all kinds, save roasted red ones...which i don't think you can just grow all roasted and red...a few cucumbers have started. cucumber flowers,despite their yellow-ocity are really pretty. i don't have the mental-energy to think about any of this right now...

I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute. -Author Unknown

i'm so bad/inconsistent w/this and that makes me EXTREMELY annoyed w/myself.

upon rereading i've realized that i just 'left you hanging' with a couple of things...the "mystery" of the sunflowers is that deer ate the tops right off. stupid,cute,hungry, diabolical deer. the dahlias are amazing and kind of perfect. they are simply maroon. the petals are awesome-looking.

i've been very lazy...or absent-mother-like w/the garden, this week. blame random, freakish, unavoidable faults of country-living. (if you want more details...ask,but be prepared for a no-less than 300-500 word rant)

not that it has anything to do w/the garden but we finally got a porch swing!!! we can now SIT AND LOOK at the garden. leisure-like.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

2 things have happened w/in the last few days that are worthy of documenting. 1. we found the book of what/where we planted everything 2. if we hadn't found the book,the plants that we were (very poorly) guessing were eggplant plants were, in fact, tomatillo plants. don't even ask me what we were thinking. probably just wishful thinking as there is NO REASON that eggplants shouldn't thrive,but we have not been able to grow a single one, despite planting dozens.
either way,tomatillos. weird,but yay. i will seriously salsa verde-up this place.

it also looks as though a few of our heirloom tomato plants are tomato-ing!

we've gotten a bunch of potatoes this week and took in all of the garlic and a couple onions.

i made scallion pancakes the other night, which, despite what my spidzer-mom thinks, one does not eat w/syrup. they were exceptional.

i gave myself 2 blisters from "frenching" green beans, which is really the only way that i like to eat them.(i don't know why. they're just not as overwhelming) Jake got a mandoline for his birthday but i'm too scared of cutting various fingers off to ever use that,i will just deal with blisters. weird. maybe i hold knives wrong?

b/c a lot of the garlic was split and we want to be able to preserve/extend it,i chopped a bunch of it up and put it with olive oil in a jar, to be used for cooking, which is very garlic-y.

this week, we'll get the rest of the onions and will probably slice/freeze the majority of them.

greens and lettuce. lots.