Generations of shame

Beef noodle soup seems to be the only Chinese dish in my repetoire. I am an embarassment to my people.

Clearing pipes

Thai eggplant harvest leads to a mean Thai red curry for lunch. Whewee, them Preston fertilized chilies pack a punch.



Ruptured pipes must be replaced and rerouted around disrupting tree roots. PVC pipe repair has become a skill I do not wish to posess. Mucking around in mud is fun though.

Ounce(s) of prevention

After a Hannah weekend visit, I come home to tomatos up the wazoo! All this lycopene will surely guarantee good prostate health! Tomatos taken orally that is, not literally up the wazoo.



Overgrown cucumbers and crayola colored peppers.



And aubergine du japonais.



Preston is expressing joy over the abundant summer harvests.



There's only so much caprese salad one can eat at a sitting, but spaghetti sauce keeps for months.



More sauce! I need a bigger freezer.

Frozen in headlights

Hannah's new neighbors recently put in a plastic resin fountain and a family of plastic resin deer. With solar lights, and BOTH tropical plants and drought tolerant desert plants. There are products here from at least 5 different aisles of the home improvement store. I nearly destroyed this entire woodlyn diorama by trying to park in Hannah's driveway. Like real deer, the plastic resin deer have a tendency to jump out in front of cars at inopportune times.

Co-cane

OMG! The Costco now carries Mexican Coca Cola. Not only do they come in iconic glass bottles, but the formula contains real cane sugar and not that abomination of food science that is high fructose corn syrup. The REAL coca cola secret formula uses real cane sugar. Who cares if they no longer have cocaine in the recipe- 10 tablespoons of sugar per serving is just as good.

Turning back to sketti

So you turn your back on the garden for a bit, and before you know it... BAM! More maters. Damn you fertile organical soil!



Home made sauce takes pesketti and meatza balls to a level completely unattainable by Chef Boyardee. I will have to stop making pesketti and meatza balls for the rest of my life because it is not possible to ever reach this level of sketti deliciousness ever again.

Capri wha?

This is what you get when you make a caprese salad inspired by the pop art masters of the 60's.

Screw fusilli

Mustard greens, sausage, and screwy pasta. My quest to eat every shape of pasta I encounter continues. This more elegant shape is Princess Grace to fusilli's Paris Hilton.