We interrupt my usual mid week silence...

Okay, it was actually a few days ago but I've just resigned myself to it now.

I woke up and looked out of the bedroom window and exclaimed," Oh, how pretty! Look at the frost on the... FROST!"

When I finally went out to survey the damage...

Luckily my beefsteak tomatoes, which I had been (im)patiently waiting to ripen were safe under a mini greenhouse pyramid. The  peppers and squash were done, never to grow into their full potential. The pumpkins, green except for one (the pie pumpkin, of course)

 Darn these veg wanting rain and warm weather! There was not enough of both this summer and most were well behind in growth.

I was most excited about my gourd garden,(which I was keeping secret until I had glorious birdhouse gourds and painted snake gourds to show) but fruits of my labour were too small to keep. I think I tore off the largest, though still immature snake gourd and threw it in the grass in exasperation.

Sigh.

Gardening is a cruel, cruel past time.

To add insult to injury it is now very warm and humid.

I have to go now and organise our weekend away up north with family, twenty of us.

The forecast calls for rain.

All weekend.

Comments

[Rebecca]

Oh Elizabeth, how frustrating, desperately hoping you got some sunshine on your weekend away.

[Lisa]

OMG I hope your weekend was better than you thought! I have been so busy doing stuff for others there has not been much "me" time. Going away too much and we have a Detroit tourney after Thanksgiving then Vancouver in November for Nationals.

I will let you know if I can get a day for tea. But I do feel knitty!

L

[Jane]

Poor you and poor garden, hopefully next year might be better. I love the idea of the snake Gourd. Jane x

[kmkat]

Be sure to pack jigsaw puzzles and Trivial Pursuit. And knitting.