Tobymelon

Every year I end up with some unusual looking vegetables from the garden. This year wasn’t a great growing year, so I only have this offering. I planted the watermelons near the fence so that they would trellis themselves. This one obliged, but insisted on pressing itself into the mesh. To me it ended up looking a bit like Toby.

Here are some Chernobyl-style samples from previous years.

Heartbeet

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Lemme at ’em! I’ll make short work of those mutant vegetables!

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I accidentally learned a lesson the hard way this week. I had a small amount of watermelon with my breakfast, and by evening I was so dizzy and sick that I could barely stand. Turns out that if you are hypotensive, watermelon can make your blood pressure drop dangerously low. (It you have hypertension, though, its combination of citrulline and potassium can help lower your blood pressure!) I spent the rest of the evening chugging water and lying down – a rather sloshy and uncomfortable combination.

Every time something like this happens, I wish I could send a big “Nya! Nya!” to my poopyhead doctor who refused to listen to me.

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Dream Our World

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It’s back to school season…time to expand your horizons and to increase you knowledge of the world of art! Dream Our World provides an opportunity to discuss both classic and modern pieces.

Inside the museum, Geordie and Toby view the world of art from a canine perspective while enjoying a day of unsupervised fun. There are a lot of hidden gems inside Dream Our World, and it is a joy for all ages. Treat yourself to a read that is both fun and educational!

Dream Our World, and other fine gifts, are available from my shop at L Bowman Studios.

What’s Going On In The Garden?

Beets me!

Large garden beet

Really, this is how large it was. Not a record-breaker, but still pretty good sized.

Believe it or not, these are both cucumbers.

The cucumber on the left was 18″ long and nearly 3 lbs. The one on the right was even bigger. (I have a friend with some funny tales about a neighbor who accidentally made cucumber bread instead of zucchini bread.) The yellow one was as sour as a lemon. Interesting…a self-pickling cucumber!

Large garden okra

Okra – still pretty tasty despite being large.

Garden watermelon

Thankfully the watermelon was regular sized.

This year was the shortest garden season we’ve ever had. It lasted less than three weeks. The the beginning of the month we had slightly cooler temperatures and a little rain, and everything exploded. After that we were back to high heat and drought. I couldn’t believe that I actually had to buy a zucchini from the store this summer. Normally I find myself tricking the neighbors saying things like “This one would be perfect for zucchini bread!’ then foisting off a green baseball bat on them. This afternoon I finished pulling up about half of my plants. It is too hot and too late in the season for them to produce more. It is sad to know that the garden is basically done.

Gallery o’ Weird Vegetables

(from years gone by)

Get your mind out of the gutter. Those are sweet potatoes.

Somehow I seem to end up with mostly oddly shaped food. Perhaps that is why nobody want to come over for dinner.

I’ll have dinner with you…as long as it’s beans!

(Max, don’t look)

Boy's dress shirt, tie and suspenders

If your young man will be starting back to in-class school soon, it might be hard to find clothes since most stores and malls are closed. Stop by my store to see what is available to help your child make those important first impressions.

Gallery o’ Weird Vegetables

Geordie and I garden in the summer.  Here are some of the stranger veggies we have found growing in there.

A strange tomato sits on a window sill.

Gimme a kiss!

Mutant potato

Chernobyl Snoopy potato with tumors.

Carrots twisted around each other.

Twisted Love Carrots

A mutant bum tomato.

Anatomy Tomato

(I have found that when women look at this, they see a bum.  When guys look at it, they see boobs.)

 A really big carrot.

Mega carrot.

Mallet shaped potato

Maxwell’s Potato Hammer

Potato has mitten hand.

“Hello!”

This one grew with the “hand” sticking up out of the dirt.  It put me in the mind of zombies for some reason…..

Big yellow tomato and regular red tomato.

The red tomato is a regular sized tomato.  The yellow one weighed several pounds.  Before he could take over the world, I turned the yellow one into sauce!