Monkling's Blog

This is the newest photo of my garden. That fence is about 6′ high, just to give you an idea of how tall my tomato plants are.

The tomatoes & cucumbers aren’t ready yet but the broccoli is, as are the green beans & snow peas.

I had a great meal planned for tonight. It was going to be spaghetti with vegetables from the garden. I picked all the green beans, snow peas, broccoli and loaded up on the basil, parsley & oregano. I washed everything, cut everything up and threw it into a pan to stir fry them with a whole bunch of garlic & olive oil. It smelled like heaven. You were all going to be treated to a gorgeous photo of the finished meal.

Then I saw it. (Dramatic music inserted here.) There was something wiggling in the pan. Apparently I didn’t do too good a job washing off my vegetables. I freaked out. I despise bugs of any kind. I am certain he had lots of friends in there along with him. The entire pan was dumped into the garbage. The kitchen garbage was immediately put outside because no way was I going to chance anything climbing out. Lucky thing I still have a freezer full of leftovers.

You want to know what’s really a lot of fun? Getting a phone call from uh, someone you’re related to (we won’t say who) saying, “I don’t remember where I parked the car.” Yep, tons of fun, let me tell ya.

Thankfully, about 20 minutes later, I got a second call saying friends who were on their way to assist with looking for the lost car had spotted it.

And people wonder why I’m prematurely gray. Wait, they don’t wonder that because they don’t know most of my hair is gray.