You know what they say about good intentions. While I don't think my own personal road to hell is paved with the good intentions to blog while on vacation, I still think of the saying when I get back home and haven't written anything in a number of days. And I DO have good intentions - even before I leave I write a few posts and save them, thinking I'll just post them while I'm gone. But something seems wrong about that. I don't know what, exactly, but when I'm not in my garden, I simply can't blog about it. I need to be looking out the window at it, or be in the basement with the grow lights, or have worked and sweated hard all day in it in order to blog about living sustainably and growing my own food.
So I was in Florida for my birthday and my daughter's bridal shower. It was wonderful - and I even made frittatas with her chicken's eggs, and her kale, basil and patty pan squash for the shower. It was refreshing to be on vacation and still be eating out of a garden (my daughter's to boot).
When I pulled into the driveway, Dianna and a friend of ours were out harvesting strawberries and raspberries. They realized I was on my way home and I might be upset that no harvesting took place while I was gone. It was too funny! They were even weighing the harvest for me. Now, I had been gone for almost 5 days, and you realize that it was in the last 30 minutes before I got back that a flurry of activity was taking place, apparently to keep me happy. :-) What they didn't know is that I had already resigned myself to zero harvest activity while I was gone, and I actually thought that my harvest on Wednesday of last week would be the last of the strawberries. They got 5 oz!
But now I'm back and after work today I watered the container plants, went wild raspberry harvesting, picked the last of the strawberries, and harvested lettuce and herbs for tomorrow's lunches. While I love to go to Florida and see my mom, daughter, and granddaughter (I miss them terribly), it's still good to be home.
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