what the rain brought and my tiny food garden

Mornings with the door open (still but not for too much longer because…summer) listening to the bird song, titmice, cardinals, chickadees, wrens. Ms Cardinal seems to have finished her nest but she’s not sitting on eggs yet. I can see the nest out the window where I sit at my desk.

Speaking of summer, it was a day yesterday. Not hot so much as humid, horribly humid. Some sun yesterday but today the sky is currently overcast, the air full of water, not to be confused with rain which is not predicted. 

Speaking of rain, according to my neighbor we got about three inches of rain over the first three or four days of the week, enough that they lifted the burn ban which is good because the truck already has a load of fallen branches. Our gooey dirt is still too wet to do digging or planting though I might get some weeding done. There’s a short window between gooey and hard as a rock due to the clay content. I still need to get my zinnia seeds in, should have already and I was gifted some pink turk’s cap seedlings that I have to decide where to put.

The rain brought these out. They just shoot up overnight seems like.

Here’s pictures of my little food garden (front row in the first pic)…six tomato plants in all (four in the top pic, two in the last), green beans (seed packet said blue lake but the beans look more like string beans), carrots (hard to see behind the tomato plants), and the squash I lifted from the compost bin. The acorn squash had two good sized fruits but the little ones have all been consumed by pill bugs from the rain, and the other squash is definitely butternut, three different vines I think with little fruits forming. Intended to plant a few potatoes but waited too long so maybe next year.

From the Department of Weird Food, first what the fuck is granola butter, and second, cookie dough?

And from the Department of You Want How Much?

I ordered the shadow box for my next project which came the other day, pulled pictures from my archives, still need to acquire foam core board and some archival adhesive (glue) but I can start on the watercolors.

Just a reminder that Thursdays are a busy day for me and no time to read, comment or answer comments. I’m up early, shower, coffee, breakfast, and out the door to SHARE which has been busy the last two weeks. We had 35 food orders both days which keep me constantly busy for four hours on my feet filling and placing the heavy baskets on the tables for the guys to return to the shelf or going out in the storeroom to replenish my section, then taking the cardboard to the recycling container, stopped by Hesed House to get some lettuce, delivered leftover stuff that won’t last a week to my friend being treated for cancer and a short visit with her, lunch, 30 minute doze, feed the outdoor cats, walk the dog, change and get to yoga class, haul the trash out to the street. That was my day Thursday. 

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Forgot to add the two book reviews last post so here are two I didn’t read.

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay - Young adults make a low budget horror movie but the movie was never released. Even so it became a cult classic from the three senes that made it onto social media. Decades later Hollywood wants to remake it even though there is only one surviving original cast member. The author goes back and forth from present day to when the movie was being made. I got halfway through and decided I wasn’t interested enough to read to the end for the “unforgettable mind-bending conclusion”.

Going Home In The Dark by Dean Koontz - I don’t know what weird writing style tangent he’s gone off on but I made it 53 pages in and put it down. The ‘author’ of this ‘true story’ keeps interjecting mind numbing unnecessary asides.