Blog: Keep the Coffee Coming

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

It is the loveliest of mornings, sunny and cool. When I let Gracie outside, I followed her and stood on the deck for the longest time surveying my world and enjoying the start of the day. My vegetables are growing, and I need to stake my tomatoes as they are growing over the wire tomato thingies ( I don't know what they're called. Thingies works just as well for almost anything). When I was growing up, the only fresh vegetable I remember eating was corn in the summer. I didn't like tomatoes, and my mother didn't serve salads. [...]