What I Found Today

This stuff is now in a nice bag on the porch awaiting the September 8th Yard Sale at my daughter's house in Town.   The funny "long spoons" were something I made for the Terrarium Class at work.  We needed a tool for digging and scooping. I also added a few metal cookie tins and a pine cone basket (very nice).  I wish I could just put a price tag on the basket and sell it at work. I am enjoying the few minutes each day, looking for things I never use.  Where did the corks come from?  Are there jars somewhere without corks?????

Work today.  I trimmed the day lilies and while holding the leaves like a ponytail and then cutting, I was reminded of last year (or the year before) when I accidentally snipped my little finger.  A paramedic in line (customer) bandaged my finger and then I had to go lay down in the break room. I get extremely light headed when I see blood.  This is why I didn't follow my childhood path to being a nurse.

I watered the garden before work.  My tomato plants are looking pretty bad.  All the leaves are turning yellow with brown dots and then falling off.  The tomatoes look okay, slowly going from green to pale pink or red.  I have more little oriental eggplant and it looks like something happened to the tops of my onions.  The tops are gone.  The little kale seeds I sprinkled in the onion bed are about 1 inch tall.  That worked so I sprinkled some carrot seeds there also.  We'll see.  Planting them did no good.  My basil seedlings grew 2 inches over night.  Amazing.  I have to think about what I want to plant when I pull up the zucchini plants.  I have late summer peas I can put in.  I like growing peas.  I packed the sliced, frozen green peppers into bags for fall and winter cooking.  I need to do something with the jalapeño.  I think I will go on line to see if there is a simple pickled pepper recipe.  As soon as a few more tomatoes are ripe I will make a bowl of fresh salsa.  I will miss eating it with warm corn chips.  If I was GF I could eat them.  Perhaps I will decide to be GF for one day next week (smile)