I Laid a Purple Egg on My Handyman's Cap

I laid a Purple Egg (Plant, that is) on my "handyman's" cap today. Hey, excuse the National Inquirer style headline, but the competition in farm blogging is hog eat hog.

This is the first fruit from the egg plants. I had to stake them up yesterday. They all had fruit big enough to weigh the plants down and they were almost on the ground. I harvested the biggest one this morning because it's so big it will be a life-time supply by tomorrow. Looks like I'll be eating egg plant every day for the next day or two, plus freezing some too, I guess. If you slice them and coat them with deli-battering before you freeze them, and fry them (slowly) in cooking oil (I prefer olive oil, but you have to keep the oil temperature moderate.) straight from the freezer, they're delicious.

It rained most of the day and all night two days ago--which was a welcome relief from a long dry spell, although there were several thunderstorms the last week or two, they don't deliver enough rain to matter much when it's dry.

The only down side is that now the grass needs cutting again and it will push me to get it done before Sunday, but if I wait any longer than that it will be so high it will be that much harder to get mowed in one day, and I've got other things on my plate right now--trying to get the final manuscript of Arise Beloved to the printer and the bishop's visitation on Sunday.