[greeneyes]

Pinging the List.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

My first jar of Tabasco peppers this season, steeping in apple cider vinegar. The vinegar softens the peppers and when I am ready to use it will end up as about 1.5 liters of Tabasco sauce. I should get 2-3 more jars before the season ends, enough Tabasco sauce to last me until next season.

[punknpuss]

I’ve been missing in action for months, but I’m back. The garden is looking either fried or wet depending on the week we’ve been having. I hate August. I’ve been trying to clear a portion of my dad’s property on a hill. I use my son’s machete, an electric hedge trimmer, a weed whacker and today I got the lawn mower up there. There is so much to do. Last week I hauled 400 lbs of organic waste away to the landfill. There is 3x or better more than that to cut down and discard. It’s not much fun dressed from head to toe, covered with Cutter, and worried about ticks and snakes but slowly it is being tamed. I don’t for one instant worry about Mother Nature being subdued by mankind. She is wickedly efficient in expanding her weedy boundaries.