Harvest Time
Oh the life you miss when you are travelling. After returning from almost two weeks vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, I discovered that the garden had used its time alone to overgrow and produce. Yesterday, I plucked 133 tomatoes from the vine! I am also flooded in green peppers, red peppers, bell peppers, and chili peppers. My kitchen counter looks like a booth at the farmers market. Anybody need any freaking tomatoes? Please – stop by and pick some up. Even after I make one whole gallon of salsa, I’ll still have over a hundred tomatoes left. Impossible to believe, but I’d estimate that there are at least twice as many tomatoes still growing in the garden. I thought about putting a card table out front with bushels of tomatoes and a big free sign but then stopped and thought back to when I was 13 years old and how cool it would be if I discovered those tomatoes on my morning walk to school. Not a pretty thought, so I scratched that idea. I am the tomato man. I am the walrus.
The vacation was quite excellent. I would like to thank everyone out west for their warm beds, their BBQ’s, their company golf hook-ups, their food, their time, their Adidas store discount hook-ups, their booze, their conversation and most importantly their friendships. Let’s do it again real soon cause there is never enough time.
19 Vacation Highlights:
- Lawn chairs and lawn mowers
- Seeing a shipwreck off the coast of Oregon
- Losing one entire box of golf balls (a dozen) on the front nine
- Jackie & Carl’s BBQ skills
- Mio Gelato & Powell’s books
- Hive
- Portland Chinese gardens
- Just Be Toys and the Compound Gallery
- Ben Gazzara
- Vineyards in Southern Oregon
- The Seattle Art Museum
- The beautiful Central Library in Seattle
- Jon B’s love of vinegar
- Toots and the Maytals in Stanley Park
- JJ Bean House of Coffee on Granville Island
- Sushi in Vancouver B.C.
- Canada. Just Canada. (apologies to Miller)
- Neil Young
- Reading the afrojet guest blogger