Some Big News

I have really big news that is just burning a hole in my pocket, but I can't share it yet because I am weirdly superstitious and everything could still fall through and then I will look even more like an idiot than I usually do.

SO...

Instead, I give you the other big news of this summer, which is that our garden is kind of a bust this year.

Well, that's not totally accurate.

It's just a very, very different year for us in terms of the garden.

LAST year, I deemed the summer the Summer of the Garden. If you click on that link (I know you won't but if you DO), you will see a mountain of tomatoes and masses and masses of cucumbers.  We called it Mount Cucumber. This year we got ONE full-sized cucumber.

One.

Jane (10) is very enthusiastic about this cucumber grown in her garden.

We ate it.

It was great.

We had more corn this year and the tomatoes are FINALLY coming in.

Beef(steak). It's what's for dinner.

But the really, really big crop this year is peppers.  Peppers of all kinds.

A portion of the jalapeno crop

Very fun purple bell peppers

Including these little bitty adorable red peppers that look like tiny bell peppers (my favorite) but (and don't ask me how I know this) if you bite into one, the FIRES OF HELL appear in your mouth.

Look how adorable!  Until it tries to kill you.

I don't even know what they are--I THOUGHT I was planting red bell peppers, as I do every year.

After I salvaged whatever remaining skin I had on the roof of my mouth, I drank milk and ate a piece of bread and hopped around my kitchen saying almost-curses ("Oh, MARTHA!"), much to the hilarity of my children.

And then I rubbed my eye.

Which was just incredibly stupid. I don't want to discuss it.

There was only one way to assuage my pain.