Playing catch-up.

With so much of my weekends being spent off-farm, I am having to scramble during the week.  This is not helped by the shortening of daylight.  And the little waves of panic that are lapping around my consciousness, telling me winter is on the way.  I am my own worst enemy.

After a very bumpy start, my summer squash is actually producing.  Just in time for powdery mildew.  I am so thankful to have even a few of them, I don't even care.  Well, I do, but I don't have time to do much about it.  While wandering by the cucumber trellis, I spotted quite a few good-sized cukes, so those went in the basket, too.  Tomatoes are starting - finally - to ripen, but the plants look like hell.  I just hope they last long enough to keep the crop going.

 

I love these round zucchinis!

I've got popcorn ears growing!  I literally jumped up and down when I saw the tell-tale silk peeking out, here and there on the stalks.  And these are some stalks - they are well over 7 feet tall.  I believe I will give them an entire bed of their own next year.  You know, in my quest to downsize my garden...

This past Sunday, after dithering around for weeks, I finally made a new clothespin bag.  For years, I have been using a system that does not work.  For YEARS.  Talk about slow on the uptake.  I have a seersucker (remember that stuff?) sleeveless granny top - sort of a cross between a short muu-muu and an apron - that I have been using as a wearable clothespin holder.  This means stuffing the clothespins in both pockets, reaching down, then up, down, then up and then having to reach across and down when I run out of pins in one pocket.  Awkward, to say the least. 

My new bag:

And, to close today's post, a dose of cuteness.

I have been trying to get a pic of all three of them - I've come close, but no cigar.  Since Pepper is never further than 10 inches away from me, it's easy to take his picture.  Crouching waaaay down.