There haven’t been any new pictures lately because there’s only so many ways to shoot a big pile of dust and studs. They’ve been ripping out the exterior wall of the old back porch, and earlier this week they framed out the new location for the door to the blue room. It’s a good thing we hadn’t gotten around to watering the backyard yet because the grass is pretty much buried under a mountain of construction debris.
Our little vegetable garden is still chugging along merrily, although that recent heat wave turned out to be the end of our lettuce. It was doing just fine, and we were slowly trying to work our way through enough salads to make a dent in the monster-sized heads, but then it got insanely hot and bang, without warning, every single head bolted. In the space of about a day every single head of lettuce went from compact and leafy to tall and straggly. The spinach isn’t fairing much better – I’ve been trying to pinch off all the flowers as they start to form, but the heat accelerated that process, so I suspect the spinach isn’t long for the garden either.
It’s just as well, though, since the tomatoes have all kind of exploded lately, and if the lettuce and the spinach are out of the way, they might actually have a little more room to expand without choking anything off. I am thinking that we are going to have to just give up and relocate the two little green pepper plants, though, because I fear that if we are not careful, one morning we will come out and find that the giant tomato plants have have literally trampled them. Although I am not sure if pepper plants that are flowering can actually be moved, so I am not entirely sure how to proceed at this point.
Monday night I went to an amazingly productive rehearsal for the women’s choral group, and did not get home til late, and tonight I did not go home after work, but instead headed in the opposite direction, to my parents’ house, to see how my mom (and her new knee) were doing, and also to hang out with my little sister. We ate dinner and sat around and chatted for a bit, and then my sister and I went out for ice cream, and sat outside Ben & Jerry’s and chatted, and then when we were done with that we proceeded to a local Starbucks and sat there for several hours talking. She and I are always chatting online, but IM’ing is still nothing like getting to talk face to face and I wish she lived closer so we could do this sort of thing more often.