First Tomato, Hydroplane Races
Not much to say today. We ate our first ripe Beefsteak Tomato, on meat and cheese sandwiches. It was better than delicious! We should be able to keep up with eating them right off the vine for a while. Although we have about a dozen tomato plants of different varieties, they are at different stages of maturity. On another note, I'm not able to keep up with the powdery mildew on either the squash or cucumber plants. Painting the leaves with whole milk works, but it's not working for the whole plant. Oh, well, we do the best we can. We enjoyed a partly cloudy day with no rain, a light breeze and temperatures in the upper 70's F. Very nice!
I watched Hydroplane races today on TV. It's been years since I watched. This was the Gold Cup, held on the Columbia River in Washington State. At first the judges said one driver won, then on further review of the race, they changed their mind because the driver broke a rule during the race. I thought the driver crossed the start line too soon, but that wasn't it. There are buoys that mark the edges of the course, and the driver missed a buoy and cut across the course. With all the rooster tails, I didn't see him do that, but the judges did. The boats also have to go through a technical check at the end of the race. If they've put something extra on their boat that shouldn't be there to give them an advantage, they lose points for that too. So it's a little confusing. You think the boat in front who gets the checkered flag first is the winner, but that's not always the case.
I just finished reading a book: Hell With the Lid Blown Off: An Alafair Tucker Mystery, by Donis Casey. This is her most recent book and I liked it so much I've requested the first three of the series from the library. It's about a large family in the rural south in the early 1900's. It's a mystery, but also country folk taking care of each other in time of trouble. There's a long list of characters in the front which put me off a little at first, but the writing style is so good that I only had to refer to the list a couple of times at the beginning. There are a few recipes in the back, the directions explained like the farm wives did it every day for their families. The recipe for Creamed Onions: "Boil the onions until tender, then pour off the water and add a teacup full of milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg, pepper and salt. Stir in a heaping tablespoon of flour until it is creamy, then let it all boil up once and serve it hot in a nice dish." And there is no bad language. That's a plus to me. I can recommend this book to my sister-in-law!
It's almost midnight (again) and I want to read some journals, so time to be grateful:
For Harry
I'm grateful for cooler weather
I'm grateful for the beginning of harvest in the garden.
I'm grateful for pain-free nights and days (3 days without pain meds!)
I'm grateful for God's Grace that surrounds me.
God Bless
I watched Hydroplane races today on TV. It's been years since I watched. This was the Gold Cup, held on the Columbia River in Washington State. At first the judges said one driver won, then on further review of the race, they changed their mind because the driver broke a rule during the race. I thought the driver crossed the start line too soon, but that wasn't it. There are buoys that mark the edges of the course, and the driver missed a buoy and cut across the course. With all the rooster tails, I didn't see him do that, but the judges did. The boats also have to go through a technical check at the end of the race. If they've put something extra on their boat that shouldn't be there to give them an advantage, they lose points for that too. So it's a little confusing. You think the boat in front who gets the checkered flag first is the winner, but that's not always the case.
I just finished reading a book: Hell With the Lid Blown Off: An Alafair Tucker Mystery, by Donis Casey. This is her most recent book and I liked it so much I've requested the first three of the series from the library. It's about a large family in the rural south in the early 1900's. It's a mystery, but also country folk taking care of each other in time of trouble. There's a long list of characters in the front which put me off a little at first, but the writing style is so good that I only had to refer to the list a couple of times at the beginning. There are a few recipes in the back, the directions explained like the farm wives did it every day for their families. The recipe for Creamed Onions: "Boil the onions until tender, then pour off the water and add a teacup full of milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg, pepper and salt. Stir in a heaping tablespoon of flour until it is creamy, then let it all boil up once and serve it hot in a nice dish." And there is no bad language. That's a plus to me. I can recommend this book to my sister-in-law!
It's almost midnight (again) and I want to read some journals, so time to be grateful:
For Harry
I'm grateful for cooler weather
I'm grateful for the beginning of harvest in the garden.
I'm grateful for pain-free nights and days (3 days without pain meds!)
I'm grateful for God's Grace that surrounds me.
God Bless