Rainy Days and Mondays

Well it ain't Monday but it sure is dismal, as it was on Monday.  It's been raining off and on for the past week.  I really need to mow the yard - it's sooo wet you can hear the grass growing.  Went out this morning at 0700 and took this pic of our surroundings and I feel like I'm in England, waiting for the werewolf to jump out of a bush. Oh - sorry they only come out at night on full moon. 

Ah well - I'll get over it.  Since we couldn't do much else, yesterday Cath and I headed up into Kentucky to Monticello to look at a slide-in truck camper.  Turned out it was too big for my truck but we did find a couple of vegetable farms up there and got some real good deals.  They raise all their own vegetables right on the farm so you know what your getting is local.  I didn't put in a garden this year cause I got tired of putting in all the work and loosing all the crop to bugs and weather.  But we have a kinda love/hate relationship with our uphill neighbor.  He loves to have us plant in his garden and we hate planting there cause we have to go up there to work it.  Not really - they're super neighbors and we did plant some cucumbers and squash up there.  Anyway - his garden is taking some big hits this summer - blight on the tomatoes, Japanese beetles eating everything (specially the beans), deer eating the sweet potato plants (never saw this before) and now that the corn is up and about ready - the raccoons will be coming in full force.  Like Joe says, they gotta eat to.  Well -- we bought about 1/2 bushel of tomatoes for $8.  The locals call them "canning tomatoes" cause they're ugly - kind of lumpy and all and most city folk won't buy them cause they ain't purdy.

We thought they were really good tomatoes and talk about big.  Two of them would about make a pound.  Since the neighbor's aren't doing so well, we're gonna talk with them today and see if they want some of these cause we're going back up to Ky today and get some more veggies.  They got it all eggplant, squash, green beans, cucumbers, corn, a wide variety of tomatoes, potatoes, peppers etc etc.  Guess that's enough blabber'n for today.  Later....