Running around all week trying to get ready to go out of town has kept me pretty busy. I have three loose ends left, however, and don't need to be on the road for another four days so I think I'll make it. I'm harvesting basil tomorrow with plans to make about half a gallon of pesto that I can freeze and then use throughout the rest of the year. After that the garden is going to be on its own for a couple weeks, but, considering how productive it's been so far with very little attention, I think everything will be fine. In fact, keeping up with the garden has been one of my more difficult jobs over the last ten or fifteen days.
This is what I have left after giving half the last weeks' harvest to the food bank. Note: the jars on the right are crowder peas and speckled lima beans--both of which have been really good so far. I think I'm having some folks over for diner tomorrow and I hope they show up with a real appetite for vegetarian gumbo, because I need to make about six gallons of it to use up all this produce.
Unfortunately, a couple of work-related things will have to wait on the vine a little longer (see what I did there). But I think they'll keep.
The odometer on my bike says I've ridden just over 700 miles in the last two months. That's not exactly bragging millage, but it does say that I'm getting back in the saddle. I hope to keep it up through the winter (indoor trainer miles count too) and see if I'm ready for the grown-up group rides again by spring here's hoping.
More when I get back.
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