Contrary to my vow of trying to show up every day for the last week of this challenge, I fell completely off the wagon. I came back to wrap up. Life got super busy and I had to change goals and priorities. My green thumb has gotten greener. I’ve become very, almost too successful at growing food. With the crazy heat this year, the harvest has been earlier and more bountiful. I’m very grateful we’ve had very timely rainfalls and an adequate budget to afford city water when there isn’t.

I’ve been busy processing peas and beans for storage. Tomorrow the guy is going to our north garden to harvest more beans. I’m thankful we have a cooler in the garage to keep the produce. Speaking of which, there’s a big bucket of apples waiting there to be juiced. I’m almost happy that the grapes aren’t that plentiful this year. Otherwise, there’ll be more work. I’m not complaining. I am very happy and grateful that we can grow this amount of food.

I am tired and had to cut back on some things to have some down time. There’s will lots and lots of gardening, harvesting and prepping to do. But I have been paying attention to some of the going ons of the challenge. Congrats to all who participated. You’ve all done very well. I admired very much how co-operative, kind and courteous everyone was. It was a pleasure to see.