Dayam! It is HOT. My thermometer read 102 a while ago. Yeesh.
Anyway, I decided that it is possible that I sounded a bit whiney in my last post. Possibly.
So, I decided to brave the heat and go look for some encouraging scenes. Submitted for your/my enjoyment:
I wanted to take a picture of the peaches that we ate, but those people are animals. By the time I got my camera out, they were gone!
At least this guy seems happy about the sun.
One of a couple of surprises that I found upon closer inspection. This Casper eggplant is ready to be eaten. We’ll probably have to have a ceremony of some kind.
The shiso continues to bush out nicely. Normally it’d have bolted by now.
I have had the worst time with leaf miners wrecking my chard this year. Finally a couple of them seem to have made it past the stunting phase. Love chard. Love it.
The Ancho peppers are cranking along nicely. Threw some in the scrambled eggs this morning. Note to self: delicious much?
My potimarron winter squashes are doing great, each has thrown several squash. Those things are animals. I got the seeds from The Seed Saver’s Exchange.
When the termaters do come in, we’re sitting pretty. These brandywine’s are just waiting to explode with deliciousness. Come on, babies! Come on!
And then, before my eyes, a ripe(ish) tomato! I will admit that it wasn’t the best tomato that I’d ever eaten, but I’m going to count it as the official #1.
To top it off, my family got me a straight razor kit (complete with strap and everything). I’m into slow everything, pretty much. It wasn’t the easiest shave ever, but you gotta love getting away from disposable/fast/convenient/plastic/as-seen-on-tv stuff. This thing’s made by a guy in lederhosen in Germany and has a wood handle and a stainless blade. Sweet.
Relevant to nothing in particular, my brother in Hawaii sent me this recording of a bird called a Hwamei. Enjoy.
Good God, man, two posts in one day? Dontcha know I’ve got things to do??! Sheesh.
But the coolest thing was listening to that incredible bird while watching a slide show of your pretty garden pictures. Incredible!
Ok, fine. Thanks for the 2nd post.
Yeah… I don’t, though. As wifey says, I get one day off every year, and this is it. And, of course, that leads to me wandering anxiously around the house swinging my arms back and forth in unison, sighing a lot.
Glad you enjoyed them.
I love those peppers!