food for the table

The vegetable garden is close to over.

I almost hate to report this – because it might seem egotistical and could cause our luck to turn – but our vegetable garden is beginning to produce tomatoes.

We got our first red tomatoes over the weekend.

I'm probably going to ramble a bit today. The long run – for this year – of dry weather has made me giddy.

Maybe we are turning a corner. We still are having quite a bit of rain, but the temperatures are getting warmer and we actually have quite a few green tomatoes growing in our vegetable garden.

Well, I've had the two days of sunshine – although the gardens did not need the half inch of rain they got during the dark Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I have not seen the sun in five days. It rained a bit more than 4 inches from Thursday afternoon to Saturday morning. It has to stop.

Granddaughter Alana did not eat all of the strawberries shown in this photo, but she certainly did her part.

I picked our first strawberries this morning.

I am back from vacation and still behind in the garden. I hate it when that happens, but the Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend were rainy, and things just didn't work out.