a few of my favorite things

not any crisp apple strudels or packages tied up with string...but!

my first ghost eggplant! i wondered if the plant was only going to have cute little purple flowers..and then die. but it has produced! yaaaaay

another flowering hedge

free [!] gladiolas from trader joe's

unbeknownst to most.. trader joe's is in fact a good place to find single men in their 20s-30s. they follow my sister around every trip

stray kitten with a beard

momma frankie is a bit scrawny looking

um kind of angry family. perhaps cos they want a home and a matching poppa frank?

fruit pickin

too lazy to reupload these pics.

mattituck wedding

leah booked us a quartet gig in mattituck, a very small hamlet in the town of riverhead. it was a multicultural wedding with a sunset indian service and we played for the sunset traditional african service. the view from the yard was AMAZING and i really really wished we could have stayed for the food and dancing. but alas we were only paid for 2 hours.

cocktail hour tables

ceremony setup

chairs again with better lighting

how does an engineer fix droopy tomatoes?

with zipties!

and nails. and stakes.

basically... my tomato cages kept falling over and the weight of tomatoes broke off quite a few branches.

sad tomatoes.

after several searches online about expensive expandable cages and trellises, i thought um i could totally build something better.

and well im not sure its better but my fix was definitely cheap and easy. i bought $.97 stakes, found my container of 600 zipties, and a box of outdoor wood nails. theyre not pretty, but so far, quite functional. buuut now i have a nasty blister...and unbroken tomato plants!

kittehs

exorcist kitteh moves in for the kill

stray momma frankette and her kittens with mittens [through the kitchen window screen]

damn kids these days... GET OFF MY YARD!!!

oh hai. you napping here too?