cucumber extravaganza

where's the off switch?!

we're being overrun with cucumbers. this is what we've harvested in the last two days.

mutant garden

when the cat's away!! look at these pictures. i have to go to dinner, but they explain themselves.

LOOK AT THAT SQUASSHHHH! we found it under a big leaf.

how many elephants are there?

this is my life for the next few days:

and i just got the binders full of stuff i'm teaching this summer.

wooo putting those english major reading/critical thinking skills to work! and i know i haven't told you about any people yet. i'm still deciding whether or not i want to. but here's some hayley art:

tomorrow is jeff's birthday and i'm going to be in austin! dad sent a picture of my cherry tomatoes. i'm excited to see them and the fam.

we were all basically alone

my computer and the internet are not cooperating right now. i'm amazed i even edited and uploaded these pictures. i'm just going to give it a rest tonight. woo, camp! we keep getting more new people. learning new games and techniques. we didn't spend any time outside today which was a nice break from the heat. low 90s is toastier than i remember.

we changed rooms. this one is much better/cooler/bigger.

exciting news from the vegetable garden: two cherry tomatoes are almost ready. i get to visit on wednesday, so i'm hoping they can wait until then.

campfire candlelight

we've been so busy all day long that i haven't taken many pictures at all. i'll try to find some time tomorrow. this is mugsy. he was in the pool filter and hayley saved him.

that's one of the cabins. it's also the view from our window.
bugs, bugs and more bugs. moths near the lights. spiders in shoes/showers. snakes. bees.
can you tell which one is my bed? ..doesn't everyone bring their feather bed, cushy mattress cover, down comforter, quilt and 2 down pillows to camp?
more and more people are trickling in. so far we have a guy who has 30 cats on his ranch, an afghanistan war veteran, a texas two steppin' fan.. the list goes on.

the first item on tomorrow's schedule is at 7:30, so i guess it's time for bed.

p.s. maj sent a picture of the first cucumber to be harvested and more of the squash

never second best

it's a rare occasion that alex is on gchat, so i'm not going to narrate today. he's sending me tea!

this cucumber is like 6 or 7 inches long. the last time i saw it, it was barely 2. amazing.

ta da!

just a dream

peas! we harvested 6 of them today. and one more yellow squash.

today i'm on a mission to finish reading slaughterhouse five i borrowed from pg, and my 2 library books so i can go turn them in.

ripley wasn't so sure about her pea pod. she didn't want me to take it away, but she didn't want to eat it either.

spell what you can't say

we have squash! and we cooked it. it was delicious. i felt a little like i was eating my babies. but i savored every bite and thought about their whole lifespan and the daily watering that went into them. it was all very zen.

i got a lot done today.

physical for camp

had lunch with [yet another] ex boyfriend, sean

bought a lifeguard appropriate one piece

picked up my bridesmaid dress

pint night
this week is feeling very rushed now that i have a week before i leave for camp. exciting though. i've always been a chronic over thinker, so i've imagined the people i'm going to meet, how the kids will be, etc. of course you can't plan for that kind of thing. but it's exciting before something like this starts. you just have no idea what it will be like.
what i dooo know is that the last few years have taught me that my experiences are up to me and they will be what i make them. and i have a whole lot of awesomeness saved up from the last several months of inactivity.

garden at 6 weeks

happy mother's day!

the eggplant is thinking about producing fruit soon. it's getting all flowery.
and we have lots of tomatoes! the biggest one was composted this week because it had been inhabited by something that was chewing tunnels all through it.
i'm turning into an expert caterpillar killer though. the black ones live around the marigolds (so much for natural pest control). and i can spot the furry ones under a leaf now. you just have to go check for them 3 or 4 times a day.
we might have enough peas to add them to a stirfry or something. probably 6 or 7. they're a favorite of the caterpillars, but luckily they only munch on the leaves. there are also lots of spiders living in there.
the dill is coming back to life now that it's protected by the zucchini.
cucumber!
the cilantro is bolting like crazy, but it attracts wasps now that it's flowering, and apparently they're a good bug.
lots of cherry tomatoes.

i only have 2 weeks left before camp so i hope stuff starts ripening soon!

the squash was closest, but i overwatered it and two of them got kind of rotten. i read that you're not supposed to pick anything before it's all the way done though or else the plant gets frustrated that it put all of this energy into producing it and you took it before it was ready. so i'm going to leave them and see what happens.

i smell like camp fire from a party last night. will wore seersucker pants. tonight we're going to our favorite restaurant for mother's day.

she turned into a cave

i met prince charming tonight. literally.

i signed up to volunteer at shakespeare in the park every thursday night. they needed help and it's fun to get out and do something, be outside, meet people.
(a cucumber!)

so tonight i'm chatting with another volunteer and it turns out he's an actor and his last part was prince charming in the little mermaid. and he was charming, indeed. what a funny thing though.
in the garden, it's megan vs caterpillars of all kinds. there are little squishy black ones with white or yellow stripes. there are fuzzy ones. there are big fat striped gray and brown ones. i probably smush 10 a day. they're decimating my pea and eggplant leaves though.
on a final, random note, today i was cleaning out my purse/room and had to laugh at the number of lists/recipes/notes i found. we all have our ways of keeping organized.

stepped out of a dream

we have peas!! one normal sized pod and lots of little tiny baby ones. the sun is really harsh right now so i might try to take a picture of the babies tomorrow morning when you can actually see them. but yay!

and have you ever wondered what the very beginning of an eggplant looks like?
they're hard to photograph since they hang upside down like that =\ but how pretty.