August is for Prozac

Last night at the Farmers Market I had to ask one of the Vendors the date..."August 9th"....absolutely NO WAY!  Have I been zoned out for over a week...snap out of it!  I'm pretty sure I have adult ADD...no I'm serious...totally focused for one minute, easily distracted the next...jump from one project to the next...and ALWAYS loosing track of time.  I wonder if there's a pill for that...took Prozac for a year...loved how it kept my thoughts corralled in and narrowed...I actually visualized this file cabinet in my brain and as each task was finished I filed it...really terrific...then we had a family crisis and my brain refused to handle it..it was like I stepped back and was watching my life as a movie and I had no personal/emotional connection. I quit taking the Prozac, handled *the elephant in the room* and never went back on the *pill*...there are many days I miss it...but it didn't let me be the crazy ADD me that I truly am...and being a wife, mother and friend requires dealing with herds of elephants in the room!

Canned Sam's first batch of tomatoes...would love to do 3 times more...but that requires going to the field and picking them...ow my aching back...suggested to Sam he pull off 2 or 3 lugs from the sorting machine he just rolled his eyes: I'm sure he's just too busy to help his old ma out...we'll see.

Hatched out 4 baby chicks in the incubator: what an adventure: felt like I was the mother hen.  I tried to graft them onto my broody hen, but after a bit she refused to take them...so I've got them under a brood light her in the house (I'll be taking them to the cabin this weekend).  I have another 6 eggs in the incubator I hope hatch out...then we should have plenty of chickens.  I will be keeping a rooster and see if we can raise chicks the natural (lazy) way.

I canned up apple sauce, peaches, plums and pickles.  I still have a bunch of Granny Smiths and Asian Pears from Paula's...I just love having a friend with an AWESOME orchard!!  I bought a couple pounds of Gala apples at the Market and will add them to my next batch of Granny Smith applesauce and no sugar.  I have some small Heirloom cherry tomatoes in the dehydrator.  I made a batch of Claire's pickles and altho I'm sure they will taste great...they turned out wrinkled...I processed them in a water bath instead of just putting in the hot vinegar and sealing...I'm going to do another batch not processed.

The Garden is looking good.  I have a melon a day and they taste great, but I have discovered I'm not that crazy about melons.  I feel I wasted a lot of garden space planting what I thought I should plant instead of things I like...it's something amateur do and I'm no amateur.  So next year I get my melons at the Farmers Markets and Bills fields.  I will grow pole beans on the fences and buy at the FM for canning.  No cukes, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, crooknecks and just a couple winter squash.  More beets, celery, Brussels, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, strawberries, potatoes, peanuts, chicken feed, garlic, herbs and just a few heirloom tomatoes.

Well the reason for my down and out mood is my friend Nancy didn't cut it in the Peace Corps.  I was really planning on living vicariously through her adventure and I am very disappointed . Enough said on that subject.

I have wasted this whole day doing bits of laundry, web surfing and snacking of fresh fruits and vegetables from last night's Market.  It is 4:00 p.m. and I will now shut off this damn computer, check the bees, chickens, garden and clean out the little pickup so I can pack and race up to the cabin tomorrow afternoon.  I will have a day to myself, then Paula up on Thursday, Dee Dee Friday and Nancy Friday late afternoon.