just a lot of grumpy whining.
feh....why bother
only posting to prove I am active lol

so here it is....end of october. The toamtos are all eaten, except for the ones I just finished processing into chutney.  Fruit flys have taken over my kitchen. Next I have about 40 OMG pounds of apples from my friends organic orchard to process. Since I already did pear sauce (60 lbs of pears from my neighbors tree....thanks Guy & Sophie!), and I still have apple sauce AND apple butter from last years canning, I think I'm going to try freezing slices. I'm told you can simply slice & freeze apples, and you can toss them frozen into pie crust, and the bake perfectly well. Since I could totally LIVE on apple pie, I guess thats the plan. 

The tomatos were terribly yummy. Even the slugs thought so......the slimey bahstids! Only time I ever have beer around the house is during slug season. Except for guests that is....and they get the good stuff, not cheap crap Old M! God that stuff stinks. Great for slug drowning tho. The biggest tomato surprise were the zebras. Small, green (golf ball size) and meaty, with a hint of citrus. Fantastic. I won't bother with krims again, they are too delicate - they crack too easy. The Speckled Romans were also great - prolific , all season bearers. The Beefsteaks, while delish, just took too long to mature, and most of them ended up in the chutney, green. Which is fine - they hold up, texture-wise. But there were too few ripe enough for BLT's, my favorite beefsteak meal. Bummer. I guess i won't bother with them again, since I can get them readily in season from the farmers markets & veg stands. Next year its romas, zebras and zuchinni if it KILLS ME!! I really wanted zukes, and had none after all. Humbug. Gourds were a failure as  I didn't start them early enough. Must start them indoors next year - like February or even earlier.

 that fuzzy red smear next to the tom. marker is a tiny red spotted salamander that lived amongst the 'maters for about 2 weeks!

 amanita flavonia! not to be confused with amanita muscaria......no no NO! Lovely specimen tho!

 thyme among the flagstones at mums

so this is the first year I've ever planted tomato plants and they've actually thrived. It helps, of course, to not be planting them on a shady porch - my only growing spot in my old house. In the past, they have grown spindly and lethargic. They had flowers (desperate I guess!) but never produced. Oh....and the cat thought they made a lovely place to........uh.........bury "treasure". Needless to say....even if they *did* manage to produce fruit...they would not have been eaten. So I'm absolutley beside myself with fruity joy, to say I've already had 3 (YES!!! THREE!!!) toms to eat, and loads more coming! No ambrosia could taste sweeter than the glorious tomatoes I've eaten, hot from the sunshine in my own front yard. I've added a picture of the varieties I planted....maybe tomorrow I will remember to take some photos of my wee garden. It's planted in a tiny kiddie wading pool & I was told (by a well meaning know it all!) that they would never bear fruit, and if they did manage to choke out a few, they would never get red. Well nyah nyah. They did and they do and they taste great. 

I'm watching it on AMC right now. What a cast! Robert V., Robert Wagner.... Newman.... McQueen.... Astaire... Chamberlain... Dunaway... dang the list just goes on. Every scene I recognize more. Theres Liz Taylor! Jennifer Jones. LOL (twisted murderous LOL) even OJ Simpson. Maureen McGovern singing too.

oh well....pleasant way to spend a slushy sunday. Watchin the tube whilst I work on my studio. Which is a WRECK. No wonder I'm not as productive as I'd like to be. Oh....theres Dabney Coleman.....

I've not put any pictures up here so I'll stick some old think on here:



yeh....Johnny Rotten. sposed to be a wallpaper....dunno how big this will show tho.

seeya!
I say seeya....as if anyone but me will read this LOL

will probably be the most boringest emptyest most grammatically incorrectest journal EVER
but WTF......

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