My friend Mary and I went to Love Apple Farm in Ben Lomond today (click on the link to see the farm's website), which is a tomato farm run by a woman named Cynthia. Her specialty is heirloom tomatoes, and she has varieties I've never heard of, including a tomato called "Berkeley Tie-Dye" (Mary got the last one, but has promised me tomato seeds if her crop is good) and one called "Heart of Compassion." I myself bought "Gardener's Delight," "Rose" (a pink tomato), "Purple Brandy," "Black Prince," and the curiously named "Hillbilly." The "Hillbilly" tomato has gotten a few inappropriate jokes around here, which I will NOT repeat.
I am still working with a dial-up connection, as my DSL will not be active until Monday (due to routing from one phone line to another--long story). I have thus not been able to answer a lot of emails and such, for which I apologize--if you have emailed me any time this week and I've been slow to reply, it's because of the crummy connection. I will be answering my mail this week, I promise!
My friend Mary is going to Europe for two weeks, so after we went to Love Apple Farm, I went over her house and helped her pack, though I protested that I am the worst person in the world for helping people pack (I packed all sorts of crap when Mr. Strega and I went to Maui, but ended up mostly wearing my one-piece bathing suit, a skirt over that, flip-flops, my sun hat, and a loose white collarless shirt as a coverup--of course, we'd gone as part of a longer trip, but I still learned my lesson about not carting so much crap around the world). Mary then went over my house to have Prada fix a button on one of her jackets, and Mr. Strega fixed salmon for dinner, so she had a proper-send off. Mary has become one of my closest friends, and I hope she forgives me one day for dragging her around to all my yoga and dance classes.
And that's the news from the Ponderosa. Get out and plant your gardens! :)
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