For most of my life I was a night owl.  When I was a young child, I had a terrible time getting to sleep and it was even harder getting up to go to school.  As a young adult I worked normal day time hours and it was hard getting up early for work. I usually stayed up late weekends and slept in late, which always made getting up on Mondays a real drag. But once we moved out to… Read the rest

I know, I know, I just posted yesterday about my garden harvest over the weekend.  Well, actually it was on Friday morning that I got all those lovely veggies from my garden. Monday morning I didn't have to be at work-work, I was working at my boss' home so she scheduled me to get there by 9am, which meant I didn't have to leave at my normal 5am!  That meant I was able to give the garden a good watering,… Read the rest

This weekend I had a great harvest from the garden. 12 pounds of produce! My poor harvesting basket was creaking and swaying for the weight. I didn't dare carry it by the handle, I had to hold it right up close to my chest. Starting at the top left: 4 Ambassador Zucchini Squash – the biggest one was 12 inches in length!  I don't normally let my squash grow this long, but they were still tender even at that maturity… Read the rest

Just a couple of photos, but I'm pretty happy so far with what I've been able to harvest. Last weekend I gathered the vegetables shown in the photo below: 1 summer dance cucumber, national picking cucumbers, lavender touch eggplant, raveena eggplant, yellow crookneck squash, bennings tint scalloped squash, ambassador zucchini squash, and a few sprigs of basil. I couldn't stand the typos I made so I had to go back and cross them out. 🙂 This next photo shows the… Read the rest