Oops...

I accidentally picked a pepper yesterday, but not a peck of pickled peppers.  Just the one.  

I was trimming off some of the bottom leaves on my plants -- both peppers and tomatoes -- because some were touching the ground, and others had turned yellow.  That's perfectly normal, by the way, for the bottom sets of leaves to turn yellow.  At least that's what all the gardening channels say. They also say to trim away the leaves touching the ground so to minimize the risk of disease affecting your plants. 

Anyway, so there I was just whacking away, when I got a little over enthusiastic and chopped a branch with a pepper on it.  No big deal.  I just brought it into the house and will chop it up and use it in something.  Most likely chicken salad or egg omelette. 

Speaking of my garden, this afternoon I put together my last two 4' x 4' beds, under the cat's supervision, of course.  

I think they must have re-designed the corner brackets, because these were much easier to put together than the two I bought last year.  I had to beat those on with a rubber hammer, but these slid right on with no problem.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.  

I had them put together in no time, then I hauled them out and put them into the garden spot. 

This is pretty much where they'll go, but I'll make sure they're lined up and squared up before I start putting dirt into them.   That will be all the beds I buy until I get the ones I have filled up and planted. Which at this point will most likely be next year.  It's just too hot right now to spend much of any time outside.  

Especially after spending the day in that unairconditioned plant.  Yep, we got up to 91° in my work area today.  One of the brazers' last day was Friday, and the trainer was up there this afternoon just a cussin.  She doesn't want to have to train anyone so she can stay in the back where the assembly lines are.  They have air conditioning back there.  I wish we did, because it gets downright miserable out there. 

In knitting news, I finally cast on another sailor hat. 

Yarn: Red Heart Supersaver Bitty Stripes

Colorway:  Crayon Box

Pattern:  Basic beanie

Needles:  US 8 / 5 mm

Apropos of nothing, I finally signed up for another Hillsdale College course, this one on American Paintings.  I've wanted to do it for a while, but each lesson is over an hour long.  That's what put me off, especially since we're working such long hours right now.  Maybe this long weekend, I can get the rest of the course done.  It's only four lessons long, so it ought to be doable.  

And finally, your humor for the day:  

What would we do without Florida?  

Every Saturday

Every Saturday, I say I'm going to get up and go to the farmer's market, and every Saturday I don't get up and go to the farmer's market...Maybe if they carried it over into the afternoon I'd go, but it ends at 11:00.  

Take yesterday morning, for example.  I wanted to get the weedeating done before it go too hot, so I did the weedeating.  I couldn't move my arms for the rest of the day, but the weedeating is done.  

Then I wanted to start a new compost pile in the black bag I emptied last week, so I tore up some cardboard for the browns, and pulled up some weeds for the greens, and got that done.  And I harvested a bunch of herbs, washed them, and hung them up to dry.  

While all of this was going on, I did a load of laundry and hung it on my clothes horse to dry.  

By the time I was finished, it was nearly 11:00 and the farmer's market was over for the week, so I just piddled around the house for the rest of the day.  And of course, you may be wondering why I'm telling you about yesterday today instead of yesterday.  Simple,  yesterday was D-Day.  It's important we remember those important dates, so I'll keep on posting about them, even though most of you skip those. 

OK, on to today.  I'm mostly rested my hands since weedeating seems to have seriously irritated my trigger finger, so much so I can't even comfortably knit.   Instead, I just watched TV.  I found a new to me show on Prime called Royal Autopsy.  A professor and forensic pathologist do an autopsy on a prosthetic body from an old English king or queen and try to determine the cause of death with the knowledge we have today.  It's pretty interesting if you're into those sorts of shows.  Unfortunately, there are only six episodes, so I've already finished bingeing it.   Now I'm re-watching Time Team, Digging For The Truth, and Lark Rise to Candleford on Prime, Pluto, and Roku Channel respectively.  

Anyway, just so this post isn't a complete waste of your time, here are some garden photos. 

My zinnia bed.

A bachelor's button.

My pepper bed.

My tomato and basil bed.

It looks like I'm going to have plenty of peppers to harvest.   Every one of my plants looks like this. 

While I was cleaning out the shed, I found this old thing.  

I'd bought it from a thrift shop ages ago, thinking I could use it as a planter.  Alas, as it has absolutely no drainage whatsoever, that didn't work out too well.  I think it was some sort of candle, since it's got what looks like wax in the bottom.  I'm going to clean it out, but I don't really know what I'm going to do with it after that.   I don't want to get rid of it, because I still like it.  I guess I'll use it for decoration or something. 

And finally, your bit of humor for the day. 

Florida never fails...

Guess Who

Guess who decided to mow after work today.  Yep, this girl. 

Why?  Well, because the grass in the front yard was getting close to knee high.  I'd done the back yard Saturday, but the front was still too mushy from the recent rains.  You know, that's what I hired the landscammer to do.  To fill in the low spots and improve the drainage so it wouldn't be like that.  We all know how that went.  

Anyway, I was looking at the forecast and saw that we were supposed to be getting more rain on Saturday, so I figured it would be best to get that chore out of the way before the yard got mushy again.   Wouldn't you know it, I checked again after I'd finished, and they've pushed the rain back to Sunday.  Oh well, at least it's done and I won't have to worry about it.  

The only problem is that now I can't see.  Because I'm allergic to grass and all...

Fortunately, it wasn't that hot out, so I got it done with only a little bit of sweating.  The weedeating will have to wait until tomorrow or Saturday, though, because I'm plumb tuckered. 

In fact, I'm so tuckered I'm going to bed.  After I practice my piano that is.  Which ought to be fun, seeing as I can't see...

Goodnight.