This morning, I knew I was a few days overdue going out and picking tomatoes. I really had no idea, though. This was this morning's haul. I was just hoping to pick enough for dinner (shrimp tomato pasta) and to make some homemade salsa this afternoon. Clearly, there was no reason to fear.
This is our one (1!) tomato plant. For some reason, it grew out instead of up. There are nine stakes holding it northward and while picking this morning, I realized we could use a couple more. I never dreamed when we planted this tiny $4 plant that it would overtake the entire flower bed (covering parsley, oregano and onions!). It's more than paid for itself and I'm quite prepared for all tomato plants next year to shrivel and die.
After giving birth to twins (Sammy and Frump), I've been slowly making over my wardrobe. The baby weight is CLEARLY around to stay for awhile, so I've been channeling my inner Stacy and Clinton and trying to get rid of the mom wardrobe. I always did love skirts for everyday (since I don't do shorts) and I'm slowly getting a pretty decent stash of them. Most of them I can dress up or down, which is great. In fact, I'm wearing one today, along with a tshirt and some ballet slippers. It so changed my mood even though all I was doing was running to the farmer's market! One of my goals this winter is to figure out how to make a simple a-line skirt. If I can master that...
I was reading through my blogs last night while Isaac and I were watching The IT Crowd (so stinking funny) and one had a link to this website. I think I'm in love! I bought a couple of structured jackets on clearance. I hope they are as beautiful as they look on-line! One of them, I think, will go nicely with my new shoes:
Music for your weekend:
(alive, pearl jam - mmmmm, eddie vedder...)
Um, yeah, um...I'm going to need you to go ahead and, um...shut up, about the tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteI have a skirt pattern you may want to borrow.
Love me some Vedder.
wv: perewort. AWESOME.
FOR THE LOVE! Do you want some? Seriously. I let that many orange on the vine this morning, so...anytime. Also, we got a cantaloupe this morning in our share. Isaac is the only one that will eat it; do you want half? And do you just want our whole share that Saturday we're on vacation? I can tell him you're picking up for us...that way it won't go to waste.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. We have a TON of green ones if they would just hurry and redden!
ReplyDeleteYes, we'll totally eat the cantaloupe if you don't want it, and we'll totally take your produce that week; just remind me what day it will be...
Can't believe how many tomatoes you have!
ReplyDeleteLove IT Crowd. If you notice Curtis's hair in the last pics, he is growing it out to be a fro. He plans to part it and dress up like that dude for Halloween (if he still has hair by then).
Mmmm homemade salsa.
ReplyDeleteThose shoes are freakin fabulous.
I love skirts when it is hot.
Mmmm...for all of it.
ReplyDeleteSeeing your tomatoes makes me sad that I didn't have a garden this year.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we'll have a little bigger one next year. The CSA has been tiding us over in fresh produce this summer nicely, though!
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