It’s Sunday

It’s Sunday, and it’s been a very productive day. I’ve done a lot of crafting (5 cards) but have posted them at Scrap-Mart and won’t post them here until they’ve shown up over there.

Tracy and I got all our vegetables in our community garden plot this morning. We have quite a few more tomatoes (16, five different kinds) than any other garden I saw, but that’s the veggie I wanted most. I used to can tomato sauce so if we have an abundant crop, I’ll be happy to drag out all the canning supplies from the basement. In addition to tomatoes, we planted three kinds of sweet pepper, cilantro, garlic chives, four kinds of basil, four types of lettuce, arugula, pole beans, zucchini, and cucumbers. We threw in a few marigolds for color.

Planting a variety of basil was inspired by a book Sarah had (and I bought) called Grow Great Grub. The author said she only plants different varieties of basil and parsley. The basils provide enough variety in taste. We’ll see what we think. 

We also have some cherry tomatoes and one basil plant growing at home, thanks for my Mother’s Day gift from Matt.

Hanging tomato planters are all the rage here. The cherry tomatoes grow downward. Here’s a view of them from underneath.

I hope it works. We think we’ll need to put some netting around the bottom once the tomatoes form to keep the critters from getting them.

Tonight we went up to the boat. We have a small 20′ Cape Dory that hasn’t been in the water for the last two summers. Tracy painted the bottom of it this week and it will go in the water (Lake Ontario) on Tuesday.

He wanted to get the registration on the boat tonight.

I was glad I decided to ride along because on the way home we noticed a couple of photographers alongside the road and knew the swans must be nearby.

The little ones are really cute, and it’s not often you can get so near them. I wasn’t sure my point and shoot would be good enough when I got out of the car, but it was just fine.