A Garden Harvest

Fall is here!

And that means frost advisories...which translate to clearing the garden of all veggies that can't handle the cold (mostly tomatoes and peppers in my garden). Most of veggies have been done for the year. I could have easily picked the peppers earlier but I was hoping they would change color. Only a handful of the banana peppers changed to red.

Something weird happened to this Kellogg's Breakfast tomato. I think it might be two tomatoes that grew into one. I had a few others like this on other tomato plants this year. Weird. (it's a yummy yellow/orange variety) I have to check to see what variety bell pepper this one is. I had planted bell peppers that were supposed to turn into yellow ones and red ones. Green is good too! This particular one is the biggest of the bunch.

Now I have to figure out what to do with my bounty. I think I'll be making and canning salsa soon!

I can't wait to see how many butternut squash I have this year. The pumpkins faired poorly...and I think we got one acorn squash. Hmmm...I'm going to need to rethink my pumpkin planting/growing technique (or lack thereof) next year.

What have we been up to lately? Annika is in school and this is her first year in Girl Scouts (trying it out). Ava is home with me (not that we're home much these days). I've been hitting the YMCA four mornings a week to workout. Ack! Now if I could only stop the eating I'd lose some weight!

I'm trying to work through my creative dry spell and start doing some arts and crafts projects. It's not as easy to do them with the girls because it seems lately that we eat dinner and then it's already time for bed. Where does the time go? I need to get the crockpot going again....I feel my afternoons are taken up with cooking - even though I enjoy doing cooking.

How do you work through your creative dry spells?????