Out in the Garden...

This is the point where a lot of snow-bound people on my friends list may begin to resent me, but I think it's so awesome that I've gotta share. I love living where I do because yesterday I went out into my garden and picked a couple of vine-ripe tomatoes to put in my lunch bag.

Vine-ripe tomatoes. In January. I've never actually pulled off this stunt before and find it to be awesome.

Sometimes my laziness, this time in the form of not pulling up any tomato plants that still had fruit on them, pays off. ^_^

A Downside to Everything :)

Unfortunately that lovely mild Mediterranean climate SoCal has, which enables January tomatoes, also means that during the week-and-a-half we were in England, the weeds in the uncultivated half of our kitchen garden grew thigh-high. (I'm not kidding.) Thus a goodly part of this afternoon was spent by Wonderful Husband and myself pulling weeds and tossing them in the compost bin. We got probably around half done.

I realized this evening that given that I like beets and they're easy enough to grow, I think in the future I'll abstain from growing Swiss chard/silverbeet. There's really not a point to it when I can just as easily simply grow beets and get roots as well as leaves. More space efficient. Unsure what I should do with the two (large) chard plants I have now. Harvest and eat, probably.

Finished the embroidery for the next tablecloth, signed and dated it, etc. Have the hems pinned; just need to run them through a sewing machine. Perhaps in the morning. Unsure of what portable handwork I should tackle next, as of the partially done pieces I have, one is very large and I'm a bit iffish on my cutwork skills, and the other is worked in pearl cotton, and only one of the colors I have in said medium matches what's already been used. Perhaps I'll take another look at that linen napkin set and see if I can suss out an underlying design in the stamped cross-stitch.