Beets!

rowan has been sick for 5 days now. poor girl. 104 fever, throwing up, ear infection and a trip to the urgent care.

hoping soon that her fever will break.

in the meantime.. it's been hot and miserable. too much for this PACNW girl.

and with roe being sick, she gets needy. and wants to lay on me. like on top of me. like a blanket.

can't wait for this heat to coooooool down.

 

so i popped out into the garden real quick earlier.

and picked my first beets!! woo hooo!!

so i cooked them up for dinner.

still haven't changed my mind.. don't like them.

and neither do the hubs or roe.

 

so i suppose the rest of them will be canned up into pickled beets for everyone else to enjoy!

 

 

they are soooo pretty though aren't they. such a deep red color. i am amazed when i cut into them and so that rich color through and through.

 

i finally have my first tomato turning red!

 

a rose.. too ripe to cut, but a pretty sight.

 

and this is what happens when you don't harvest your lettuce.

because the spiders and grasshoppers are all in it.

and then you neglect the side of the garden. and you get a 4 foot tall lettuce tower.

awesome.

 

please ignore the asparagus that has gone to seed, the blackberry bush growing in from the neighbors yard and all the weeds. :)