It's also possible that seven cups of coffee is impeding my ability to sleep...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:26:22 GMT

Ugh, who mows their lawn at 7am? I thought there were laws to protect us from that. On my sleeping-in morning, too, of all the cruel ironies. I shall not bitch too hard, though, because I love my tiny town.

On a more positive note, I have a peach on my desk and it smells delicious. Stone fruit makes summer bearable.

In other news from the vegetable front, things are lush and leafy. We bought a cherry tomato plant which was supposed to be 50cm tall at most. I don't know what we did, but it's six feet plus now, and we've had to lash it to a near-by cypress bush for support because it's taller than all of our tomato stakes now. And laden with fruit. So many tiny tomatoes in our immediate future, yum.

Our green zebra tomato has many green stripy fruits on it. I had to google search to find how to tell when green tomatoes are ripe. (When they're yellow and green, apparently.) I am looking forward to tasting them, apparently they're quite zesty. (Such a good word, 'zesty'.)

The mystery/zombie tomato plant has little tiny grape-sized tomatoes on it, so I am assuming it's not Mortgage Lifter. By elimination, that means it's either Tiny Tim or Yellow Pear, but we won't know until they ripen. I'm hoping for Yellow Pear, then we'll have red, green and yellow tomatoes in our salads. So pretty!

The eggplant bushes are ginormous, have billions of really pretty pale purple flowers, but no fruit yet. I don't know if we're warm enough down here to make eggplant fruit, but they're bigger than last year's plants and there's still a good eight weeks of warm weather, so I'm hopeful. And the basil has bolted. We're clipping off flowers every night, but we're not going to keep up at this rate. I think the basil season is winding down for us. It was tasty while it lasted.

Wow, looking at the above paragraphs, it would be easy to believe that we actually know something about gardening, which is so wrong it's laughable.

Warren Ellis hosted a webcomics week on Whitechapel. I'm glad I took the time to motor right through the whole ten pages of people promoting their webcomics, because I found a couple of gems:

( Cut for size because I had to post some of the pretty. )

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It's also possible that seven cups of coffee is impeding my ability to sleep...