the heat in the day has started to wither a few of the plants in the garden, so i’ve taken to spending more time in the evenings taking care of them. they seem to like the sound of the guitar under the full moon.
pulled 6 roma tomatoes off the vine today. many more to come in the coming weeks. great seeimg them redden — been watching them for weeks now, salivating, waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing and ring.
also the second eggplant has started to develop on the eggplant plant. can’t wait to try it, though i suppose i ought to. and cucumbers are coming soon, the first few measuring 3-4 inches today.
more squash to come, and zucchinis still so impressive they put my assumptions to shame. carrots and beets not to much more down the road.
couldn’t be happier on this front. they’ve made great pan, grill, and salad fodder. last time i had a garden anything like this was in 9th grade way back in maryland. we’d turned an old dog run into a garden, and grew beans off the side of the house. impressive! not sure why we didn’t continue the practice overseas. maybe we were explicitly forbidden from turning the backyard into a garden. there’s always rented garden space! i will keep this in mind in case we end up unable to garden in our immediate vicinity when we make it back over. kristin, please remind me of this in case i forget.
back inside, staying up late working on proposals (got the work ethic of a beast of burden). maybe that’s why i’m such an ass sometimes! good to sometimes have a movie on that you’ve seen a thousand times in these moments of solitude. thanks, real genius! not necessarily the most carefully put-together film, but a cult classic for nerds the world over. moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work!
back to it, i guess.