thanks, sheryl. It can be hard to see everything with so many posts.
sorry about your tomatoes. cool you can get your hands on those tunas, though. i bought some jelly made from those when I was in arizona once and it was good.Cool pics!
My tomatoes, alas, are no more.Got a major infestation of horn worms and then the fruit on them either cracked or mushed out at the bottom.
However, the local Hispanic markets are have a heyday with fruit and so I'm going to put up some jams and jellies....may even do some salsa. The black plums are really luscious (makes a great ginger jam) and I'm thinking some peach/hotpepper chutney. My neighbor has a prickly pear so loaded with tuna rojas that it looks like Christmas and he's offered to let me have 'em (which makes for a great batch of magenta colored syrup for drinks and jelly). But I am SO envious of y'all that have the fresh produce. I can hardly wait to move out of this god-forsaken desert to have the ability to grow something.
I love all the *dining* chicken names. So where's Stirfry?
Aubrey, your chicks are adorable!
Bedbugs suck! (literally and figuratively) There's a website -- www.bedbugregistry.com -- which lists places you probably don't want to stay. It used to be one or two offender in Las Vegas on the Strip, but now they're pretty pervasive and all over....and all over the U.S. Hint: When you travel and stay in a hotel do NOT put your suitcase on the floor or bed.
Loving the monsoon season down here, but not so much the humidity. We were that location in Henderson that got 1.3" in 20 minutes. I had just let the two dogs outside and I noticed two big plop drops on the patio and thought to myself "Man, if that were hail, it would be pretty big." And then all heck started to break loose. I called the dogs in. Tibbs got in right away. The difference between a dry dog and a thoroughly drenched dog (running inside with her eyes closed) was 6 seconds. It was just a wall of water that erupted. We had about 3" of standing water in the backyard at spots. Pretty intense. (but great not to have to water the yard for a couple of days!)
Hope everyone else is enjoying summer! It's almost SHARK WEEK!!!!!!
well, I have just gotten the one patty pan fruit so far so I'll let you know at the end of the season how it goes. I got a summer squash sampler pack from park with several zuc varieties and a patty pan sampler. i have tried pumpkins before with no luck. this is my first year trying the small sugar pumpkin and the small wonder spaghetti squash. I actually eat a lot of spaghetti squash so I was excited to see that small variety. It is doing well. I didn't venture into any of the other winter squash.
I need to put a tarp over that part of the run for summer, then I think they may use it more. I saw it on some byc coop pages and thought it would be cool.
