We got a nice break from the normal August heat and humidity over the weekend.
Mrs. Augie got all of the mowing done. I spent some quality time in the kitchen garden. Pulled a bunch of weeds. Pruned all of the tomato plants. Picked ~3 gallons of cukes. Picked 3 five-gallon buckets full of tomatoes - from 12 plants. I expect I’ll fill another bucket this evening when I pick the brandywines. Picked a five-gallon bucket full of spaghetti squash. Picked a couple gallons of peppers.
After I was done picking I chopped up a bunch of the tomatoes and peppers, added some chopped onion and fresh cilantro, some seasonings, and a bit of vinegar - and viola! Fresh pico de gallo for supper!
I took a package of bacon out of the freezer this morning - BLTs for supper tonight then we’ll stuff another batch of jars to make fermented pickles.
It’s time to start getting things ready to plant fall garden, which means I need to get off my biscuits and get back to work on the hoop house.
Funny/not funny from yesterday... ok, mostly funny... I take Howard with me when I go out to work in the garden. It gives him a break from his dog yard and gives me an opportunity to work on teaching him to be patient. I had him leashed yesterday so we could go back to the house after finishing up the picking... he was pretty much dragging me like he likes to do when he’s on the leash... he headed straight for the electric fence around the tomato cages... I told him not to go that way... I had a five-gallon bucket full of tomatoes in the other hand... couldn’t stop him... he got into the hot wire... poor guy yipped and yiped and jumped and hollered like he’d been set on fire... then he looked at me like it was my fault... all I could do was laugh at him.
The remote training collar is working very nicely. Now when he’s out of sight and I want him to come back I just hit the button to beep the collar one time and he comes looking for me. That was money well-spent.