It's November and I have some more tomatoes on the vine!!!!

About a month ago, while Tab and the kids were still here, Alyssa was in trouble and throwing a fit, so I decided to go outside and work in the garden.  It gave me some much-needed quiet time - at least until Alyssa came out to try to talk me into over-ruling her Mom.  What I decided to do was cut off all the old branches on the tomato plants.  I was surprised they were still alive, so figured it wouldn't hurt.  I cut them all off and watered the plants good, but was very surprised that when I went back out about a week later there were some tomatoes growing!  I have been meaning to take updated pictures of the garden, so finally went out this morning with my camera.
The Patio Tomato Plant has 8 tomatoes on it - one is red and ready to be picked!  Pretty good for November!!!!


The Heatmaster plants are doing pretty good, too.  Two of the three of them also have a couple green tomatoes on them.




Really hoping they turn red in the next few days since we're supposed to have a cold front come through with temps close to freezing.

The Beefsteak plant totally died and the Roma Tomato plants are still alive, but not producing anything.

The pepper plants are, though!!!!






I think they are in too small of containers because the peppers don't get any bigger than a quarter. Next year I should be able to plant them in something bigger.  We'll see how that turns out.

More changes.......

I'm alone in the house (again).  I'm not going to post what happened, but suffice it to say - when your kids are young you can at least MAKE them listen to you, but it's REALLY HARD to watch your adult children make what you think are mistakes and there's nothing you can do about it.  :-(    

Anyway, I've been pretty stressed out for the past couple of months, so when they moved out Todd was nice enough to let me "splurge" on something for me.  I had just bought my Kindle Fire for my birthday last May, but the new one came out a few weeks ago, so I decided to get the new Kindle Fire HD!!!  (Love it!!)

It has Skype capabilities, so that will be fun while we're on our trip in Hawaii. It also has a longer battery life and more storage space (of course).  I also ordered a cover for the new one.  It was neat having one that I made that matched my purse, but this one has all the openings where they need to be and it was less than $10, so I decided it was very worth it.  It also has Auto Sleep and Wake, which is really nice.  It also can sit and different angles for viewing video or reading books and one for when you want to type. Anyway, here's the picture!!!!

The cover:

I tried to take a picture to show the difference between the old one and the HD - this is the best I could do.

I'm not sure what I'll do with my old one yet.  Probably nothing until after our trip in December.  I can download some books and audio books (free from our library) for Todd on the old one, and I'll have the new one for me. That will keep us busy for the 8 hr plane rides.