In the beginning of the week, we all thought it was too cool, too soon. By the end of this week, we were steamed into eagerness for fall. So the storm came and the temperature dropped twenty degrees whilst the wind tore apart the mosquito gazebo and felled dead oaks pell mell through the chickenyard.
With a headlamp, predawn, I surveyed the damage and noted a rain covering askew upon the Playhouse RV, fetched a ladder and leaned it up and ascended to yank the roofing home. The storm I’d thought I’d dodged before bed came upon me unannounced in a deluge, as if a bathtub had been upended above my head, and I had literally to laugh aloud through the waterfall.
A day that starts with such a baptism feels good to live.
The vegetables were into it, too.
inside box 12 is a melon, and
- Onions – Onions are not to be placed into direct association with your melons; the internet is full of charlatans that will mislead you into wasting a perfectly good summer quinessence of a melon, if you do not be’ware.
- Potatoes
- Melon – take your melon and cut or ball it up and drizzle with honey, then scatter your holy basil up onto it, tiny piece-meal? Or, you can just eat it.
- Tomatoes – This is the time of year in which I try to blend the words “tomato” and “tornado” in a satisfying way.
- Cherry tomatoes
- Zucchini
- Eggplant
- Ripe peppers, not hot.
- Radishes
- Edamame – Don’t eat the pod. The storm knocked a bunch of dirt onto things so wash them first. Then boil them, salt them, and eat them. Could boil em and pop them out of their pods to use in your stirfry or blended into dip.
- Cabbage
- Tulsi/holy basil (you’ve been down too long in the midnight sea)– makes magical tea, or you could do something with it and your melon.
PS – Did you find the hidden toad up top?