A rainy Saturday
Most years, this first weekend in May finds me down in Hunt, Texas at the Synod of the Sun Presbyterian Men's Conference. Last year I was invited to be the recreation leader and wound up staying in one of the nicest housing rooms on Mo Ranch. In fact, the weekend's keynote speaker and I were in adjoining rooms and shared a bath. Pretty heady for an old stoner boy.
I had begun to think the survey responses had indicated a great deal of displeasure with the job I had done; I was not asked to return until early in April. I agreed to do it again and was looking forward to the ride down through some of the prettier routes in Texas.
But then last week at work, I broke a toe on my right foot. The doctor's orders for rest and 2 hours per day walking made it necessary for me to cancel on Mo. I expect to be cleared for all activities on Monday. But with a beach vacation looming, with its attendant beach combing walks, I did not want to risk straining the other muscles in my leg with abnormal strides compensating for the damaged toe.
So I was home for the rainy day. I managed to pick enough lettuce, spinach and radishes from my plot at the community garden before the rain came that we should be eating salad every night this week! 2 full gallon zip lock bags of lettuce, a sandwich bag worth of spinach and 7 radishes. I can't wait for the cantaloupe plants I planted a couple of weeks ago to start producing! Oh, and there was a strawberry that was about ripe, along with another 3 or 4 that will be ready later this week. Broccoli plants are doing well, the carrots are definitely growing taller (under the ground is a mystery), the onions are starting to bulb up really well and the potatoes are getting out of control for sure. But the lettuce! Wow. I am really liking this stuff. I harvested a bunch last weekend and there was more and better today! It is a Simpson variety of leaf lettuce. Also, there are flowers on the jalapeno, red bell peppers and Roma tomatoes. Okra bed is doing pretty good, too. Although the nutsedge is liking our dirt maybe more than the cultivated plants. Not sure how to get rid of that stuff in an organic garden!
The skies did open up though and lots of water fell. The pool is very full and I am glad not to have any leaks in the (self) repaired roof.
We booked the rental mini-van for next week's beach trip. I can't wait for a week of being a slug and not feeling any guilt about it!
I had begun to think the survey responses had indicated a great deal of displeasure with the job I had done; I was not asked to return until early in April. I agreed to do it again and was looking forward to the ride down through some of the prettier routes in Texas.
But then last week at work, I broke a toe on my right foot. The doctor's orders for rest and 2 hours per day walking made it necessary for me to cancel on Mo. I expect to be cleared for all activities on Monday. But with a beach vacation looming, with its attendant beach combing walks, I did not want to risk straining the other muscles in my leg with abnormal strides compensating for the damaged toe.
So I was home for the rainy day. I managed to pick enough lettuce, spinach and radishes from my plot at the community garden before the rain came that we should be eating salad every night this week! 2 full gallon zip lock bags of lettuce, a sandwich bag worth of spinach and 7 radishes. I can't wait for the cantaloupe plants I planted a couple of weeks ago to start producing! Oh, and there was a strawberry that was about ripe, along with another 3 or 4 that will be ready later this week. Broccoli plants are doing well, the carrots are definitely growing taller (under the ground is a mystery), the onions are starting to bulb up really well and the potatoes are getting out of control for sure. But the lettuce! Wow. I am really liking this stuff. I harvested a bunch last weekend and there was more and better today! It is a Simpson variety of leaf lettuce. Also, there are flowers on the jalapeno, red bell peppers and Roma tomatoes. Okra bed is doing pretty good, too. Although the nutsedge is liking our dirt maybe more than the cultivated plants. Not sure how to get rid of that stuff in an organic garden!
The skies did open up though and lots of water fell. The pool is very full and I am glad not to have any leaks in the (self) repaired roof.
We booked the rental mini-van for next week's beach trip. I can't wait for a week of being a slug and not feeling any guilt about it!
posted by Kurt at 10:41 PM
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