Life...it happens

     Hello there! Long time no post. I had all kinds of things planned out when I started this little blog of mine, and then..life happened. And, as usual, all my grand little ideas got pushed to the back burner. I am working on a few things and I hope to have some pictures to show soon. Need to create an extra hour or two of daylight to take some things outside and take pictures. We have such dismal lighting inside that it makes my pictures look like they were taken in the 70's.

     The picture above is of the very last rose on my old rosebush. It was doing so wonderfully, pretty blooms covered every inch (this was before I owned a camera..) but, the heat seems to have done her in.
    
    This summer has been an interesting one so far. Quite the learning experience. For example, I learned that one should never, under any circumstances leave the veggie garden to one's fiancee. Especially when said fiancee apparently knows nothing of gardens and calls his Dad in to do all the planting.

     That folks, is a snapshot of the mess garden. The tall stuff on the right is corn, right next to that is spaghetti squash (5 separate plants there..) and right in front on the left are the peas. In the middle..right up against the peas is cabbage. Behind the squash is jumbo muskmelon and wedged in between the melon and the corn is eggplant. Yeah..I know, don't need to say a word. Did I mention that the culprit (fiancees dad that is) is a bit of a boozer. Yep..he was three sheets to the wind and that is probably the biggest understatement of the year. What isn't pictured as we already harvested them is the eight thousand radishes and spinach that he planted. You don't want to know how long it took me to wash/bag all that. I tried to explain to The Grouch (fiancee) what went wrong out there, but he didn't listen. I hope he learned something from this..I really really do.

     At least my tomato is doing well. It's huge. Like, mutant huge. I need to go out and take a more recent picture as it is now over 5 feet tall and wider than I am..and that's saying something as I am not exactly narrow.

     Its a black prince tomato, originally from Siberia of all places. And apparently it really loves the heat. Except for the fact that I have to pick the maters as soon as they show a bit of color and let them ripen inside that is. It is so hot that they rot on the plant before they can fully ripen. So far though we have only lost four maters out of way more than I can count. This is what they are supposed to look like when fully ripened.

Beautiful aren't they? Can't wait to try them!

And with that, I am off. Have a wonderful night everyone and stay cool!