The problem with growing tomatoes comes about two weeks after they start ripening. For the first two weeks, they ripen two or three at a time and we can keep up with that. One of the things I learned since I started growing tomatoes is that you can put two, three, even four slices of these things on any sandwich. I never put just one slice on a hamburger or a bacon tomato sandwich any more. I digress. At about the two week mark, they start ripening by the dozens. What you see here is the last three days worth and I left quite a few on the bushes this morning because I wanted to get out of the hot sun and I just couldn’t carry any more. One other thing about tomatoes: There are three kinds. Forget about Creole, Celebrity, Bush Baby, etc, etc....There are store bought tomatoes which rate about 1 on a scale of 10. There are fruit stand tomatoes which rate about 5 on a scale of 10. And, finally, there are home grown tomatoes like these that rate about 26 on that same scale of 10. There is no comparison.
Some of the reddest ones and a fresh-picked bell pepper will go in Dad's salad that Patsy is making this afternoon. I'll end up giving a lot of these away.
We've been receiving an inordinate amount of spam at all of the blogs here lately. You need do nothing but delete the email when you receive it. I’m on it. I'm going to attempt a very untechnical explanation of what is happening and why but I'll put it below the jump.
Speaking of Ninjas..................
Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc, etc send out programs to every site on the internet. Those programs explore and catalogue every page, every keyword, and every link on the site so that they can provide information to their various search engines. Spammers know this. They want Google to find their links on as many sites and as many times on those sites as possible. Their goal is to be on Page 1 of as many different searches as possible. The more Google finds their links on blogs, the higher their ranking goes. Their programs are designed to post as many messages as they can on as many entries as they can and they’re quite clever about it. The defenses here are also quite clever and most do not get through. The ones that do are deleted several times during the day and are never heard from again.
I need everyone to know these are not personal attacks. They tend to choose older entries and mostly at random. They don’t have your email address. They’re posting a message and the blogging software is notifying you that a comment has been posted to your entry. The more entries you’ve posted since we started, the more likely you are to receive a few of these. Occasionally, when one of these programs is trying to post several hundred of these messages, you will get an internal error message when you try to post an entry or a comment. If you do, place your cursor on the message, right click your mouse, and press reload or refresh.
Pass some of those my way, willya? I am stuck getting store-bought, which are better than nothing.
Hey, I would love it if you dropped some off with me. The store tomatoes I've gotten lately haven't been very good.
I'll try to stop by both of your houses this weekend if there are any left.
You are too kind.