Posted by on Sep 15, 2015 | 4 comments

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Lined up for action–we’re feeling saucy!

Now, this is interesting—and who says there are no weather changes in the world—because mama has tomatoes getting ripe and it’s almost NOVEMBER. Well, ten days away.

Mama has never had tomatoes in November, at least not the big ones on her plants right now. They sort of crept in through their green leaves and then expanded themselves and became Costoluto beauties!!! And get this: she didn’t even PLANT THEM. They were volunteers, meaning they just came up and grow’d, like Topsy, whoever that is.

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So we are all happy around here; tomato soup bubbling on the stove, tomato sauces being made a stored for winter, and tomato sauce for pizza every Sunday evening, which is THEIR ritual supper before a soccer match, or after, and I actually can’t complain because they let me sniff the anchovies.

So maybe fall has some saving graces if lovely tomatoes are showing themselves after such a barren summer. We also have literally hundreds of tiny Sweet One Hundreds, haha, and I’m trying to help mama pick them but I squish more than I harvest so I have been relegated to sitting in the arugula.

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Hey, life could be worse, right? Just don’t pick me by mistake for the salad, haha.