It's about 10 in the morning and I have just picked the last of my Walla-Walla sweets from the reluctant ground. Out of about 10, 3 or 4 of them are about racquetball size and the rest are, well, smaller. I will probably use them all in one dish and forget I even had them! The only thing I am so proud of are my tomatoes. I have them nestled on my porch, protected from the worst of the weather and this morning I was pleased to be able to pull three crimson cherries from the vine. I immediately popped one into my mouth and stood in the sunshine while the juices slipped ever so sweetly over my tongue. It's like liquid sunshine in my mouth! I bet that if you could see the inside of my mouth while it was closed it would be lit up by the pure light those little babies give off. I found a tomato plant smack dab in the middle of my weak-sauce (weak-sauce-I did that just for you Finesse) corn patch! Um, I didn't plant it, and before the so-called garden was in, it was just grass there, so...
I hate to see the end of our growing season coming-I know it may be a little further off, but I am already seeing slight changes in the tree leaves. Fall is my favorite season, but it means that planning for next year's garden craziness will ensue.
I have discovered a HUGE spider on my porch. I'm not really a fan of spiders, but this one is the largest I have ever seen that spins a web-her web is about two feet wide and long, and she sits as big as a quarter in the middle. Light brown, gargantuan body, poky-outey legs and she has darker brown spots all over. She is NOT AFRAID OF ME seemingly, as she moves around her web, making subtle changes, re-threading her killing stations, and reinforcing her anchors. I watch her closely (and I mean physically close) and sometimes she will raise one of her legs at me as if to say "okay, back off now, you are ruining my groove here." I politely move back and let her finish her business. Damn she's big. She has a girlfriend right around the corner of our house, but her web is nothing in comparison.
I was at a friend's house yesterday evening and she had many deer in her yard-they were setting of their motion lights-and even though I have been here pushing a year, seeing the deer so close still holds such fascination for me. I hear others saying they are a nuisance, eating your flowers and peppers, and fruit and yeah, yeah, I get it, but there are a limited number of people that can say they have these amazing wild animals walking in their yard! I hope I never lose the wonder of them. In town, the deer will get scared of people's little dogs and the deer will STOMP THEM! Tee-Hee! I know, I know, it's not funny, wait...uh yeah, it's funny. Aww, I feel so sorry for your little doggie that got the absolute shit stomped out of it by an animal that is 10 times it's size-shouldn't it know better than to aggress something that is standing 4 feet above it? Whatever. I'm not a little kick-me-ankle-biter dog fan anyway.
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