If You Would Rather Be Furloughed than At Work....Read This

I had a request to update my blog. And it made me feel good. Like someone actually reads this besides my mama. And most of the time I have to remind her to read it!

Anywho. (That and this are for you, Jen!)

I really don't have an excuse about not posting in almost a week. We haven't been terribly busy and actually stayed in town this weekend. Of course, I have spent a lot of time on the computer this week checking up on Stellan at www.mycharmingkids.net. It really boggles my brain that I have gotten attached to this little boy who (whom....not sure, mama) I have never even met.

When I am not refreshing the Twitter page of MckMama, I have been doing a little investigative work. On my tomato plants.

See evidence below:
That, my friend(s), is a hole in my tomato. Upon a closer inspection, you will notice that the hole is quite large for a worm, my first suspect. I was thinking that maybe it could have been a large bug. But, what kind of bug would eat a hole in a tomato?

After losing three tomatoes to an unknown culprit, I was surprised when I caught the thief red-handed the other day. As I was walking out of the garage, I noticed something flying away from my tomato plants.


That's right. A large bird was having a feast on my tomatoes!! But, birds don't eat tomatoes. Especially when I have a huge bird feeder filled with food only six feet from the plants.

Of course, I called my granddaddy. He affirmed that birds will actually peck at tomatoes. My only choices for saving my veggies were to (a) pick them early or (b)cover the plants. I went with the easiest option, A.

So, while I have had no more tomato casualties, the produce is very small. Delicious (obviously, if birds will eat them). But small.

I have one more tomato that I need to pick and then I will be done with the tomato plants. I still have a few bell peppers. Because birds apparently don't care for green bell peppers.