Snapshots: Ripe Apricots Wait for No Woman

We went to our friends' house on Thursday, and were the happy recipients of three boxes of small apricots harvested the day before.

Tiny, but tasty.

I should have processed them that day, but I was too tired, so they had to wait until the next day. They were a little too ripe to really gel, but the resulting 10 pints of puree will certainly be put to good use in yogurt and crepes.

A. started harvesting his garlic, as well.

He had the brilliant idea of cutting off the stalks with his wire cutters. Good call. Those stalks are tough, but they're not tougher than wire.

One of the more entertaining things in the garden this year has been the carrots. I had some carrots go to seed last year (some that we had missed digging up the year before--it takes them two years to make seeds), and I had randomly shaken some of the thousands of seeds around. And then, of course, the wind did its thing. 

The result of this has been carrots coming up literally everywhere I've been watering. In my tomatoes, cabbages, peas, green beans . . .

It's fun. And one of the great benefits of volunteer carrots is that they don't have to be thinned.

I started pulling the ones in my tomato bed, though, because they were getting lost under the giant tomato bushes. This photo also shows the last of the snow peas.

Since our big rain a couple of weeks ago, we've had a few more short cloudbursts here and there, which is why we now have honest-to-goodness GREEN in the pastures.

This was dead brown just two weeks ago. It's way past time for some grass to start growing.

There you have it! My life, snapshotted.