Mid(-ish)-week mishmash, ending with a tomatoes update
Aug. 27th, 2026 09:39 amI'm not having a great brain week, friends, and I feel very behind on everything even though things have been quiet on both work fronts. I have just given up on the prospect of commenting on rather a lot of posts that I had open in tabs for the purpose, although I'm at least caught up on reading here.
A thing that is Not Helping: it's Thursday morning and I'm still waiting for a phone call I was told to expect on Monday or Tuesday.
A few semi-random things:
--Farmshare, week eight (last week): lettuce, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic scapes, young ginger. Of those, I know we haven't made it to processing the scapes yet; here's hoping they're still in decent shape. >.< Definitely a week or so where I'm reminding myself that the farmshare membership is as much about supporting the local farm(s) as anything else.
--I'm still behind on booking a handful of medical things that I've been meaning to deal with for...uh...a while, but we did at least just book all three cats for their annual checkup. (A couple months late, but not horrendously late. Did we wind up getting an appointment for the exact day that the fall crunch starts at Dayjob? Sure did. But it's first thing in the morning, at least.)
--Our cucumber plant has produced a second cuke that should be actually worth picking (there've been a couple of them that grew to half the size of a pencil at most and then withered). As for the tomatoes, some of the Romas are starting to turn red, and at least a few of the Black Cherry tomatoes look like they're ripening.
And the two Brandywine plants (the large slicer tomatoes)? ( not long, but entirely about tomatoes )
A thing that is Not Helping: it's Thursday morning and I'm still waiting for a phone call I was told to expect on Monday or Tuesday.
A few semi-random things:
--Farmshare, week eight (last week): lettuce, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic scapes, young ginger. Of those, I know we haven't made it to processing the scapes yet; here's hoping they're still in decent shape. >.< Definitely a week or so where I'm reminding myself that the farmshare membership is as much about supporting the local farm(s) as anything else.
--I'm still behind on booking a handful of medical things that I've been meaning to deal with for...uh...a while, but we did at least just book all three cats for their annual checkup. (A couple months late, but not horrendously late. Did we wind up getting an appointment for the exact day that the fall crunch starts at Dayjob? Sure did. But it's first thing in the morning, at least.)
--Our cucumber plant has produced a second cuke that should be actually worth picking (there've been a couple of them that grew to half the size of a pencil at most and then withered). As for the tomatoes, some of the Romas are starting to turn red, and at least a few of the Black Cherry tomatoes look like they're ripening.
And the two Brandywine plants (the large slicer tomatoes)? ( not long, but entirely about tomatoes )
