You might say, Cher, why are you having a green tomato at the height of tomato season?

Answer: I had a beautiful beefsteak, just like the one I posted a pic of here about a week ago, but a groundhog took a bite out of it. It wasn't a very big bite so I cut it in half and there was still a lot of tomato.

Oh and would you like to know how I spent my morning? Building cages around my tomato and eggplant.

That we enclosed our garden with wire fencing.

I’m jealous of your beefsteaks! Mine are still light green.

But I've been getting cherry tomatoes since around 7/25.

You are going to love the taste of those beefsteaks!

Some of my gardens are fenced in. This one is a school garden that would look unattractive to fence. Even in my other school garden, which is fenced in, we have a groundhog this year. Actually a groundhog mommy with four little babies. It doesn't live there; it lives at a neighbor's and I've been told runs across the road for dinner. My gardeners are just devastated, even though they put a fence around their raised beds and I also bought them Repel-All. You still have to be diligent to keep them away.

Air fryer tostadas with corn tortillas, ground beef, taco seasoning, black olives, refried beans, diced tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheese.

Mexican street corn

Sweet tea

Breaded and pan-fried, Southern-style.

Rice and green beans.

Brownies.

macaroni & cheese
green beans


brownie w/ black raspberry ice cream for dessert

local Mexican restaurant.

With my garden tomatoes and chilis.
Sweet corn.
Iced tea.

crab, shrimp, andouille sausage, sweet corn and potatoes. My husband is not very accustomed to shelling shrimp or picking crab, but we enjoyed it. A friend had given me zucchini brownies, so that was dessert. Because of work schedules, we were celebrating my birthday a couple days early. So I'm satisfied.