QOTD!: 11

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” -The Help, Kathryn Stockett

G is for garden. H is for hurricane.

So the aftermath from Irene has us with restored power, but no internet, so I’m posting from my phone. Please forgive any weird formatting..

The veggies I picked before the storm look nice. One of the peppers is even turning red!

I can’t necessarily say the same for the tomato plants outside.

Still have to see what is salvagable- some of the branches are split down the middle..

QOTD!: 10

“Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
-Pablo Picasso

QOTD!: 9

I found the quote I was talking about here!

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.  The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
-C.G. Jung

QOTD!: 8

“So you see, imagination needs moodling– long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
-Brenda Ueland

QOTD!: 7

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
-Joseph Chilton Pearce

Goodnight, Irene…

So hurricane prep will have me at the store today and packing up some things as Mom and I will be staying with my grandparents– just in case phone lines go out, we want to make sure they’re ok.

I’ll also be taking the advice of the page linked here to “prepare” my garden: Preparing Garden for Hurricane! : Harvest!

Although there’s nothing I can do for those baby Cherry toms.  I only hope that the storm changes direction and passes on through so they’ll be ok (and the rest of us!)

*Oh, and the post title comes from the Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) song.

QOTD!: 6

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
-Colette

Please don’t “eat” my tomatoes, Irene

So earlier this week, I went outside to pick a few more ripe tomatoes.  We seemed to have wound up with less than I expected, but the results were still delicious.  I’ve decided on trying a few tomato varieties next year.  I’ve actually been a little sad though, that the season is almost over and almost all my harvest had been, well, harvested.  This has showed by the lack of weeding I’ve accomplished lately, as I kind of stopped caring as it seemed impossible that a few small weeds would affect my almost-done plants.

And then, I saw something.  I think I’d mentioned that my cherry tomato plant had grown tall and strong lately, despite the fact that all the blossoms seem to have been clipped off– eaten, I assume, before they could produce fruit.  The picture above is what caught my eye– I have baby cherry toms!!

That said, I also noticed, yesterday, that one of the large branches I thought was the cherry tomato plant– is actually the regular tomato plant.  It’s still looking strong, growing, and flowering.  Might I have more tomatoes coming afterall?

But with this in mind, I’m a little more concerned about Hurricane Irene this weekend….

QOTD!: 5

“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.”
-Eileen Caddy