Garden Maintenance

Got any politicians you want me to throw rotten tomatos at?

I seem to have a few. Rotten tomatos, that is.

This has been a bumper crop year for me. I have more tomatos from my garden this year than I EVER have had before. I send tomatos to work with DH and DD. I take them to the food pantry. I shove them at unsuspecting neighbors. I hauled two bags full of them all the way to Archon in St Louis, the the first week of August.

They are, without a doubt, the BEST tasting tomatoes I have ever grown. Still, I cannot keep up with them. So some of them rot on the vines before I can pick them.

So today was 'pick rotten tomatoes' day.

They smell bad. O RLY? YA RLY!

Today was the day, because tomorrow is garbage pickup and believe me when I say I did not want rotten tomatoes sitting in my garbage can in the garage in the heat.

I already filled my yearly quota of stinky garage days when DH stored a wheelbarrow full of fresh grass clippings in the garage overnight. gag.


So I donned disposable plastic gloves and filled plastic bags with slimy, stinky stuff. And I am having major guilt pangs because I did not put the stuff in my compost pile.

Storm Front

A few minutes ago, another storm front blew in.

The front door rattled and a piece of wind shrieked through a minute opening in the weatherstripping. A crack of thunder sent our biggest, baddest cat scurrying to hide under the couch. The kitten chased after him until it became apparent that Bing was not being playful, while old, deaf Sarah just looked bewildered.

For a few minutes, the sky was full of fireworks, with thunderbolts crashing on top of dry rips of lightening.

Then it settled down to another round of steady rain with flickers of light and grumbles of thunder. Bing crawled out from under the couch but still wouldn't play. The kitten stalked away full of contempt for his staid elders.

We have had enough rain for a while. I so wish I could send this to a drought stricken area. We now have standing water in the back yard, even though we are on a hill.

I think Saturday I read that we already had exceeded the record August rainfall. Since then we received more inches, and the forecast continues to call for rain every day.

Send it to Colorado, PLEASE