Rotten Tomatoes

That is the smell at my house right now...

Be grateful there is no picture.  We have eaten, picked, canned, pickled, frozen, and LOVED this garden to DEATH but the summer garden is SO done and it needs to be pulled out.  Unfortunately we have been so busy with work and life that it just hasn't happened yet.  Matt and I can barely look outside right now without being overcome with guilt.  I have plenty of fun plans for our winter garden, but they have to wait until that old summer garden is tilled under.  This is the LEAST appealing part of gardening, getting in there with the moldy, old veggies and weeds and destroying everything we spent hours putting together.  I can't wait for the lettuce, broccoli, potatoes, and carrots of the winter garden...if only I can convince Matt to do all the hard stuff so that I can get on with the fun planting of seeds!  Meanwhile, all I hear in my head these days is this old nursery rhyme...

"A man of words and not of deeds,

Is like a garden full of weeds."

I know, I know, an awful mantra...we have GOT to get out there this weekend!

The Reading Continues

Book # 25 of 2010 is...

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

I've never read this book before, which is pretty amazing because I majored in American Literature in college.  It has been one that I have always MEANT to read, but it was never required and so it just never happened...until now!  I feel like it is sort of cheating to say that I read it because I listened to this book "on tape" (CD really) and because I listened to in in the car it was a fast "read."  I like "reading" heavy books this way because it doesn't use up any of my reading time.  Does that make sense?  I'm driving in the car a certain amount of time anyway and so I get to "read" useful books with my wasted driving time.  Grapes of Wrath IS a useful book!  Don't smirk.  It is a book that every Californian should have in their repertoire because of the historical narrative that it tells.  It is a beautifully written and moving book.  John Steinbeck is a master at storytelling.