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Yeah, you can laugh at the story 'cause you aren't living this eggplant nightmare!!!!! I went out (3 hours ago) to take a photo of the eggplant from you-know-where, got sidetracked and backtracked and, oh well, I finally made it back in. LOL. You both know exactly what I mean although mine may be worse since the Lyme makes me forget what I'm doing and I get to going in circles sometimes.

Anyway, here is a photo of the eggtree which measured 85 inches wide:

And, either last week or the week before I posted a photo of my newest cuke trellis, so here is an update on that one. It is producing very well, and those cukes are going straight to the stoneware crocks to ferment for sweet pickles. I have a 6 gallon crock started with dill and spices for sour pickles and it smells heavenly!.

While I'm at it ... here is what is now the newest trellis of cukes. This is actually the 2nd go-around for this trellis. The first cukes were my earliest, planted in early April, and they had pretty much produced and played out in the heat of June and early July. I pulled the old vines off and planted a new crop. I'll be the only local with cukes going now and the price I'm getting from the folks that peddle them is getting better every week.

This trellis of cukes is only producing in the very top these days, so next week I will pull these vines off. It is nearly time to plant my acorn and spaghetti squashes, so that is what will go there.

And lastly, I couldn't resist taking a pic of this pretty tray of this afternoon's harvest. The afternoon picking is pretty much what I missed during the morning harvest, and the difference from the lighting from morning to afternoon always lets me see what I didn't see before.

I've got tomato sauce on the stove and am going to put it in jars and get it in the canner right now. Does this work ever end????? ;-)

I am sooooooooooooooooooooo “J” of your work. Your plants are GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!

I was in the midst of making green tomato chutney when the power went out just before 5pm. IT came back on about 15 minutes ago and needless to say, I’m not in the mood to deal with it right now -— it can wait until the morning.

We thought hubby had closed the bedroom window in time, but alas he didn’t. His pillow is now in the dryer (the wind blew mine off the bed) and even flipping the mattress is not working real well because it was soaked completely through.

Dinner for me and hubby was ham salad sandwiches and kidlet had a chicken salad sandwich because I was unable to finish making the turkey curry I had started, let alone cook any rice. OH well, at least I don’t have to worry about the question of “what’s for dinner” on Sunday.