Friday….!

Yay!  Friday is finally here!  If I hadn’t started my morning off drunk it would probably be better.

No, I haven’t been drinking.  I broke the right arm of my glasses last night.  Couldn’t find my old “back-ups”, so I’m struggling with these.  The arm sorta flops and it doesn’t hold my glasses in the right position, so it’s like I’m looking through distorted glass.  I cannot walk straight.  I also cannot remember if the eye doctor’s office is actually open today.  It’s going to be a miserable weekend if he isn’t.

But- it would give me an excuse to sit on my butt all weekend. 

Yeah, right.  Like that has a snowball’s chance in hell of happening. 

On a different note, the garden seems to be doing well.  We’ve finally gotten several good rains on it and it’s taken off.  Tuesday’s weather was going to do it in I was afraid though.  We had hail.  The first time I have personally ever seen hail bigger than pea-sized and also the first time I’ve ever seen it hail enough to pile up.  We got about an inch of quarter-sized hail.  o.O

It punched holes in the leaves of my squash, cucumbers, beans and pepper plants.  Then, considering all the poison was washed from the plants, a deer came through nibbling here and there.  Luckily it only ate a few stalks of corn and a few peas.  Poison has since been reapplied and the pests are staying clear of it.

I’ve been amazed at the children’s willingness to be helpful with it this year.  They don’t gripe when I tell them it’s time to head to the garden to work.  They’ve willingly hoed and helped water every day.  Must have finally found the right combination of foods to peak their interests.

18 tomato plants, 18 squash and cucumber plants, 12 peppers (banana, bell and cayene), 3 rows of green beans and 2 rows of 2 types of corn.  I plan on freezing and canning this summer.  I skipped last summer with the exception of canning tomatoes and tomato juice. 

The husband let grass overtake my cucumbers, so no pickles.  Squash bugs ate my squash plants up, so no squash in the freezer.  The deer ate all the beans and I only had one row of corn- not near enough to have much to freeze. 

I cracked open my last jar of cucumber relish over the weekend and my last jar of tomatoes last week, so the garden better get to putting out quickly!

ETA:  Just got back from the eye doctor’s office.  They put a new arm on my glasses.  It looks like hell- it’s tortoise shell patterned and my glasses are gold framed, but I’m not complaining!  They sit on my face right and I’m no longer woozie and nauseated! 

The eye doc rocks!