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Garden of Eatin'

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darkitysnark

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In the past, the Snarks' luck with garden has been rather spotty. One year all they grew was a ginormous basil patch (about 36 Genovese basil plants purchased from a guy who called himself the Basil King (though he isn't this Basil King - see August 14th entry which kinda distracted me from this post for about half an hour. Why do we no longer have the Black Mountain College?!)) and made pesto all summer long and had enough left over to freeze and enjoy all through winter.

 

So they are quite pleasantly stunned to find that the mere seven basil plants, five tomato plants (gold nugget, an heirloom plant called "Dancing Bonnie", Early Girl, roma, and cherry tomatoes), and one each of eggplant (Japanese "Black Beauty"), cucumber (some sort of slicin' cuke) and zucchini are not only not dying, but bearing some fruit!

 

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Wee ickle first harvest!

 

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A recent photo of the garden, taken in the early evening.

 

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Due to the dry (whoda thunk it?) weather, we've had to water the garden. Here's the tomato/basil/eggplant patch.

 

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So far we've gotten two zucchini plants out of this monter. One was regular sized, and the other one we didn't get to until after returning from NC. Behold zuke-zilla!...

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We've used about 2% of this thing so far.

 

The Snarks did end up having a good time with the Darkity'rents. Snarky starts her new job tomorrow (!!!) and the immediately after her first five days on the new job, they are flying out to TX to join up with the DarkityFam (including DarkityBro) to go on a five day cruise. (more !!!'s) At some point the Snarks will need a vacation to just sit at home and do absolutely nothing with nobody.

 

Today the Snarks hit four different Goodwill stores in the area for state plates and other curiosities. She has so much to show y'all (including the cow head they got for the living room!) (Don't worry, no real living bovines were harmed in the making of this particular piece of kitsch.) (Oh, and the Donut Barn! But... that's for another post.)

 

Until then, she will leave you this. Proof that Snarky comes from a cute short peoples.

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Darkity'Rents at Multnomah Falls. Check out DarkityMa's new curly hair!

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I love the garden! It's so darn cute! As are 'rents!

 

As for that zucchini, well, it looks like you may have strained a shoulder just holding that monster up for a photo! I reminds me of fishing trip photos when guys catch the big whopper!

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Oh my word. That's a helluva zucchini. Did you know that there's a "leave zucchini on your neighbor's porch" day? Can you imagine the recipient's faces when they saw that one?

 

Seconding the adorableness of the parents, I don't even need to see their faces, I can just tell from the rapt tilt of their heads how cute they are :)

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The Snarks are still eating off of that zuke-zilla. Still. Snarky snagged a recipe for chocolate zucchini bread off of Salon.com years ago that does smart work of an overabundance of the green stuff. She'll have to list that along with some of Grandmother S's more bizarre concoctions.

 

Four more days until DarkityFam 2006: Scourge (of Cuteness) of the High Seas!

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