The walk of wet shame, plus recent pickings!

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Aren't you glad you don't have to go outside to use the restroom. Unfortunately, it's the not the same rule for all of us... No matter how much it's raining, so of us HAVE to go outside...


And when the rain's really coming down, you do what you gotta do ASAP, with no dilly dallying around, no smelling the flowers, nuthin'. Get out there, get it done...


...and then do the walk of wet shame as you come back in for your towel drying, knowing that too many days of this is making you stink like, well, a wet dog - and that means you're due for a bath.


Unnnnnhappy puppy!

We're close to an inch of rain for today. We've actually had some days recently when it HASN'T rained. Like last week, when I was working from home one day, and it was beautiful out, and there was the first ripe tomato...that lead to the first BLT of the season. MMM!


And then there was the day I tugged at some carrots to see how they were coming along, and wow, they're looking more like carrots! AND they were tasting more like carrots too! (Trust me, some carrots DON'T taste very good unless they're ready to be dug up!) What the heck...I was cleaning out the bed, I might as well cut one of the really undersized cabbages - just to see how they look inside.


Not too bad for my first cabbage!!!


Hmmmm! Brainstorm! What else goes in coleslaw? I grabbed a not-fully-developed bell pepper, an onion...


...and the Nicer Dicer I got as a Christmas gift (not as goofy as it sounds!)


Add to that some salt, pepper, mayo and lemon juice - and before I knew it, I was eating homegrown coleslaw! COOL!! (Now if only Brett would let me have chickens, then I could've been making my own mayo as well!)


This Monday I picked the biggest load of green beans yet - just over a pound's worth!! PLUS more cukes! (I really need to start making pickles soon!)


And I dug up the garlic this week. They're scrawny. I've never had garlic NOT be scrawny. But the few times I've grown it, I've just used grocery store garlic cloves. For this fall I've pre-ordered one variety of hardneck garlic and one variety of softneck garlic, both intended for planting (so hopefully they'll come with big cloves?), and we'll see how it goes. Oh, and a problem with growing your own garlic? Some of it STINKS while it dries, and this is not good "leave it outdoors for a week to dry" weather. And it's certainly not coming INDOORS until I nail down if there's some rotted cloves. So for now it's under the gazebo. Stinking.


Yesterday was one of the biggest harvests yet! In preparation for not being around the garden for a few days, I picked EVERY SQUASH I could find, figuring even the smallest would be oversized by the end of the weekend.


This was my biggest picking of green beans so far this season - just over two pounds!!!


The squash went in to work with me today, and most of them had been claimed by the time I left. The cucumbers got stuffed in the crisper drawer. Remember, I need to make pickles REAL soon!


That's all for now.... Hopefully before too much longer you'll be seeing more RED in these veggie-picking posts!