Gotta Love a Good Carrot

It is SOOOOO hot here in Maine right now. Not that it gives me the right to complain….I mean we get six, maybe seven weeks of real hot and humid weather while the rest of the country bakes for months on end. It has been in the 90s the past two days and we have another three or four to go before we get some relief. I pity the poor tourists who came up here to get a good sea breeze and cool off – ain’t gonna happen!

Updates from the garden!

We have been eating cucumbers every evening just to keep up with them. The green beans just now started to get to the pickable size! They are yummy... me and the dogs ate a dozen or so before we made it out of the garden 😊

The tomatoes, all varieties, are plentiful and green. Some are getting a red tinge so I am hoping that by Sunday we will have some to pick and eat!

The raspberries and black raspberries gave us 9 quarts that made it to the freezer with another 5 or 6 being consumed by us and friends and family. Good yield and the raspberries will go again this fall, so looking forward to that.

This is a photo of a lettuce plant that either THOUGHT it was a carrot or WANTS to be a carrot. Right in the middle of a row of carrots and there it is.

Lettuce doesn’t like the hot weather, so it is all going to seed. It should sprout later this fall and I will dig some up to start downstairs in the hydroponics room. Judy and I are going for supplies in the next few weeks to start building it. I will keep you posted!

Yes, it is lettuce going to seed. It always looks strange to me!

The rest of these pictures are of our geraniums we grew this winter and some Asiatic lilies that seem to like the hot weather.

I love the blue sky behind this one!

But I now have to tell you about a dream I had the other night. Strangely enough, since I retired my dreams have all but disappeared, especially the weird ones, so this one came from out of nowhere!

I was sliding down a banister in this huge house (not ours!) and halfway down a nail tore through my thigh and I was bleeding like crazy. Of course, Judy was at the bottom. I explained what happened and all she could say was, “Serves you right.”

I think she is officially mean by anyone’s standards! The next post will feature how this husband navigates the perils of marriage.

Let’s end with some carrot stuff.

Mel Blanc did the voice for Bugs Bunny. He was actually allergic to carrots!

The longest carrot was 19 feet long. The heaviest was 18.9 pounds. Nothing said whether it was the same carrot!

During World War II, Britons were told to eat more carrots to help them see better during the blackouts.

Carrots were not orange until the Dutch cultivated a strain for the ruling House of Orange. Not sure why they couldn’t just be satisfied with oranges and tangerines. Oh, they were yellow, purple, red, green or black before then!

And what country first cultivated carrots?

Afghanistan!

PEACE OUT!!!