Food!

Yummy yummy veggies!  This morning Mom, Justin, and I worked on finishing the winter garden plot.  We hauled bricks from the front yard to the side yard and finished making the circular garden plot that is by the chicken coop.  Mom and I went out to by dirt- unfortunately, the way everything is going up in price we found out dirt has gone up in price too!  and to top it off they didn't have any top soil or have any ordered.  So we are now on a quest for top soil.  

I dug up the potatoes in one of our garden beds today. I got size lovely red potatoes that will go in our soup pot.   Mom had pulled up our zucchini plants- they were looking pretty bad by this point.  I really needed to thin them out when they were young they ended up being way to crowded.  Oh well, you live and learn!  Anyway, so I while I dug up the potatoes I got the ground ready for planting some fall crops.  I need to get them in tomorrow or I will be risking things getting to late.  I am hoping to have a lovely plot of salad greens as well as some other veggies that will help out this fall/winter.  

This evening Mom and I went to the State Fair to help Justin take down the flower show.  J has been working at the flower show since the beginning of the fair and yesterday he asked if Mom could help him with the take down of one of the shows.  Apparently they have not been having very many volunteers, which makes for a long night of cleaning up before the next show.  I tagged along with Mom to help out.  When I got there I started calling dibs on the produce- because not only are there flowers but there is also produce that gets judged.  Mmmm yummy yummy award winning veggies and fruit.  One of the people who entered his product came in to collect his ribbons and the produce.  "Awww,  you are taking the zucchini.  We were eyeing them and hoping to take them home"  I told him (the farmer- quite cute btw). 

 "Oh! do you want them?"  

"No, no I couldn't take them if you were going to use them!" I replied as he extended the lovely large green squash.   

"I was just going to take them home so they wouldn't go to waste but if you want them I have plenty at home!" He said handing them to me. 

 "wow, thank you so much!"  And away he left...mmmm yummy veggies from a yummy farmer.  lol.  

Unfortunately, some other people thought they looked good too so I only got two of the smallest zucchini to take home.  Should have taken them out to the car right away!  Lol, oh well I don't come away completely empty handed.  In fact, Mom and I came home with a considerable box of produce- carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, butternut squash, tomatoes, peppers- hot and bell as well as some other kinds, apples, pears, and a few other odds and ends.  Oh! and I also came home with two lovely tomato worms.  They are really quite beautiful.  Granted I am not going to be taking them out side to my garden anytime soon but they are lovely non the less!

All in all a wonderful day!