It ain't Purple ...

Here's the eggplant that I bought and planted. When it bloomed, the stem with flower was sticking up ... then it dropped down ... thickened ... and starting growing this ...

It looks like some kind of mutant eggplant ... white ... not purple. Hope it tastes the same.



Despite the bees crawling in and out of the squash flowers ... no squash! And there are plenty of flowers. Hmmm.

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The squash plants have put out LOTS of flowers ... but no squash is growing. There are a few round small red tomatoes, but they are either split or partially eaten by something. Then there are these kind of pear-shaped ones growing on this other tomato plant.

To the immediate right is a white eggplant that is growing. And Lastly, we have a contest going on between the zuchini plant on the left and the white potato plant on the right ... let's see who takes over the most territory. I doubt we'll get any potatoes ... but we may get some zuchini.

Garden Plot #2

I told my wife that in the 24 hours that I would be home, I'd do 2 things ... make a loaf of bread (with the A/C on it didn't rise ...) ... and dig a 2nd garden plot for her to plant. I was almost done digging the plot out next to the previous one ... when I struck water with the mattock!!!

Look at that ... a real geyser!

It's the city side of the line ... not flowing thru any of our meters ... so we can't turn it off. We tried phoning the city ... nothing ... so we drove around to find a policeman. He called the police chief who came and looked. The police chief called the Mayor. Between the two of them they got a fellow to come over to deal with it.

In the meantime I convinced my wife to use 2 metal clothes hangers to go dowse where this line was flowing underground ... We traced it up to a meter by some trailers (it was shut-off) ... then traced it down to a larger pipe (my wife says, according to the hanger reactions) ... that turned left ... headed thru the trees and fenceline ... and out to the other street.

When the fellow showed up, we told him where it ran (and that we had turned all our meters off and it wasn't stopping it) ... so he headed over to the other street and eventually found a hand-valve over there that shut it off. Of course, it also killed water to our house and the one next door (our landlord). Time to break out the sawdust toilet until Monday ... I'll be in the truck ... wife will have to make-do. :-)

the Gardenbox is in !!

Don't let the smile in this foto fool you ... I'm really "too pooped to pop!"

It took a good 6 hours to tear the grass out, get the 4' x 8' box in, and mix the soil with compost and peat moss.

My wife surfed on the computer to discover that the tree out front is a native species of Black Cherry ... the fruits are only 1/4"-1/3" in diameter. Slight tart taste, but excellent flavor. Good for jam and pies.

I found lots of melted and broken car safety glass ... and charred wood remains. Daniel says that Paul used to have a wooden shop over in this area ... and a fellow had his Jeep parked next to the shop, when the shop burned down. Hence the broken and melted car parts. This led to the building of the big old barn shop on the other side of Paul's place.

My wife wants to drive down to the beach and watch the sunset over the ocean ... I want to turn on an air conditioner and collapse for the rest of the day ... it's going to take a lot more than 2 aspirin to get me up and moving tomorrow ... :-)