Just got in about an hour ago after the 17-hour drive from St. Louis. Have a ton of groceries and luggage to unpack. My first stop was at the garden where I was greeted, after having been gone for 2 1/2 weeks, with lots of tomatoes, , a giant zucchini, 2 little eggplants, a bunch of espanola and serrano peppers as well as some thais, and 3 cauliflower heads. At least I don’t have to go out to shop for produce for a week. The weeds have been busy too however, so the next few days will be spent getting the garden back into shape. I pity the boy who mowed the lawn — he probably couldn’t tell which were weeds and which were my plants LOL, so he left the weeds that were getting into the beds. Wise choice, I say:D.

I also checked my picture folder and realized that my original goal for this blog (to be able to document the seasonal dishes I prepare) is being defeated because of this picture backlog (I still have pics from June that I’ve been meaning to blog about!). I have been meaning to turn the pictures into posts but I will have to post 4-5 times a day if the recipes are to be organized seasonally…. So, the shortcut solution is to post the pictures in the blog the day they were taken, and I will add the recipes when I get the chance or in response to requests. This way, I’ll at least have a pictorial record of what we ate from month to month.