Oct 23

The nights are definitely getting colder.  Tonight’s supposed to go down to 38 but the rest of the week will be in the mid 40s.  I moved in my mom’s plant, as well as my ancient mystery plant.  That thing goes crazy outside so I’m going to try and transplant it   to a bigger pot in the spring when it goes back out on the front porch.  It’s huge so we’ll have to think about what to put it in that’ll transport easily in fall of 2009.

In other news, the watermelon is gone.  We brought in 4-5 little watermelon that were out there still on the vine, but who knows how they look inside.  Howard cut one open about the size of a cantaloupe, but it was not ripe.  The ruellia took advantage of the camouflage and had several nice size shoots growing among the watermelon.

The turnips are growing like crazy and so is the lettuce.  We have a mueslix (sp?) mix and some of it tastes like lettuce and some of it tastes like something you’d feed a cow.

Unbelievably, the okra is still producing, however, the plants look pretty bare and spindly.  We’re getting about a pound every couple of days. I’ve had some of the swiss chard but it got mixed up w/ a bunch of veggies so who knows how it’ll taste alone.  The cabbages, broccoli, and cauliflower are all growing nicely, but still don’t have any obvious vegetable among its leaves.

We’re going to take the boat out to Caballo Lake today to test it........does it float when you put it in the water???  That’s the question......  :)

The boat still smells a lot like gasoline and we’re going to replace some of the carpeting to see if that helps, but first we want to see if we’re keeping it.  If it passes its test, we’ll start pulling out some of that smelly carpeting.  We’ll put some of the extra blue stuff from the Tracker in the back where it doesn’t show, but we’ll buy something beige for the top and middle storage compartment.