Relaxing day off in the middle of the week

I had a really mellow day off today. It wasn’t jolly or cheerful or anything, and I guess I didn’t even get much done. It’s been raining here it seems like forever, and doesn’t show much sign of stopping, which is kind of frustrating. I would like to get a peek at the sun sometime soon.

The garden has yielded a little fruit. A couple handfuls of beans, enough for two servings. They were tasty. More are growing, but I think he beans just aren’t as productive as I had hoped. I picked a tomato Sunday afternoon. It was gold on the outside, yellow when sliced. It was delicious. We have many green ones on the vines; I only hope we can get some sun so they’ll ripen up soon. I’m hungry for home grown tomatoes. Maybe the plants we bought were a mix of red and yellow tomatoes - there was a variety spike for each. Today I picked the first pepper. Many more fruits are growing, so I’m hoping for some pepper dishes soon. The peppers are also yellow.

I worked in the office last week. DH and The Kid came along, and we all stayed at the parentals. I got my mom hooked up with e-mail. Her communicating computer has a tool that reads her e-mail aloud, so I’ve tried to e-mail her a couple of times since I got home. She was very excited about the e-mail. I will probably be going back in a couple of weeks. My employers are happy to have me up as much as I can be there, and it’s easier to go in the summer, when DH isn’t teaching.

Hi Lynda! Thanks for urging me to blog. I will try to be more regular.

9 Responses to “Relaxing day off in the middle of the week”


  1. 1 joeinvegas

    Work work work work work

    For the first time, we put in tomatoes early enough, and have had ripe fruit for the past month. Hope yours comes along.

  2. 2 Lynda

    Love You Darling Girl!!

    So good to see you’ve written.

    You know me, I worry.

    xoxoxoxoxoxoxo!!!

  3. 3 Serenity Valley

    Hey, if you’re up in our neck of the woods again this summer (comparatively speaking), could we maybe get together?

  4. 4 Ann

    SV, I’m hoping so. It depends on when I come and what the parentals need me for.

  5. 5 Hope

    I had wondered the same thing about trying to get together. I could probably drive northeast if we time it right.

  6. 6 annegb

    I have never tasted a yellow tomato. Do they taste the same as red ones? We grow wonderful tomatoes (red) but our garden doesn’t start coming on till late August. I bottle the beans and tomatoes, we freeze the corn and peppers and zucchini.

    I get so hungry for tomatoes, I will eat two or three from the store at a time, with tons of salt and pepper. Not all that great but what can you do? Why don’t you ship me some yellow ones?

    Hey, Ann, think your mom would make a blogger? She has to be around my age? I wish there were more my age.

  7. 7 Hopie

    I worry when you don’t post for a long time. Are you okay?

  8. 8 Trail Seeker

    Hi Ann, it is the end of July now and I am just now getting bean blossums, so your fortionate to have been harvesting so early. Please blog again soon.

  9. 9 annegb

    where you at, Ann?

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