Careful What You Ask For!

I've been anxiously waiting for my tomatoes to ripen for weeks and now they are coming.  I've been covering my tomato row with a huge tarp every night because it's getting down in the mid 30's already and I'll be seriously angry if they get frozen now!  I've been pulling the green ones that are low to the ground and bringing them in and they are ripening slowly on the counter.  Now I have tomatoes in every stage of ripeness imaginable.  My favorite for snacking are the cherries.  I've been sending Dave to work every day with a container full and I've been eating my share right off the counter.  I need to go out and pick more this afternoon but here is a pic of a few laying around the kitchen waiting to ripen and become marinara sauce.  Oh so much work but...yummy!  There are also Walla Walla sweet onions and Anaheim peppers in there.

Remember... this is what these same plants looked like in May...

So sad!!!  I almost ripped them up but instead I cut them down to the ground and they grew!

So I guess it's been a successful year after all.  There are still hundreds on the vines.  I think I have enough jars though.

My sunflowers are finally smiling at me too.  Here's one:

And here are the rest of them dancing in the wind and smiling at the sun like good little sunflowers do:

  

And here is my prize pumpkin.  Hope it gets a little larger but it's doing very nicely:

It's hard to tell how big it is... but it's very large.  I'm so excited!

This morning the fatometer read 148.5 and glucose was 100.  Yay!  A new low... again!  (Every ounce counts!)  I had half an ear of corn at dinner last night.  I ate it very slowly and convinced myself that it was enough.  I didn't really believe myself though.  Really I wanted three or four ears :)  But... what's a chubby diabetic prone girl to do?  Such a struggle!  With all that corn in the garden... to gorge or not to gorge?  That is the question!  

Well... ciao yall!