August!

Things I like: French Meadow’s ‘Woman’s Bread’ (the next best thing to my own homemade bread, which I haven’t been bothered to make lately), peanut butter, jam (but not PB&J), coffee, and warm apple sauce with raisins. That’s what I had for breakfast yesterday. I mainly stuck to yogurt for breakfast while I was at the cabin (well, yogurt + donut, sometimes), which I like, but it was nice to come home to my usual fixin’s.
I normally have one cup of coffee + almond milk with my breakfast and then a cup of tea in the afternoon, but I somehow wound up drinking almost five cups of coffee (plus one cup of tea) yesterday — three of the five were decaf, though. They didn’t seem to affect my ability to be tired right on cue last night.

I can’t believe it’s August already. I know, I know — time, flying, etc — a tired subject. But it’s true. According to my photos, my first tomato was ripe on the third of August last year. I’m not even close to that this year (except for a couple of ‘yellow pear’ cherry tomatoes), but I did find these bell peppers today. I didn’t even realize there were any growing on the purple plant yet!
I keep my pepper plants caged in with chicken wire (protection from squirrels), so I really have to make an effort to move the leaves around and check for fruit. I went to the trouble today and was rewarded. They’re pretty small, but that’s okay — I can’t believe how purple-y they are. Speaking of purple-y things, my eggplants (one Japanese, one regular) are doing really well this year. The plants themselves are much bigger than they have been in past years, and there are lots of eggplants growing.
I also wanted to share this photo of my new terrarium. I’ve wanted to make one for ages, but it wasn’t until I was walking around the woods at my parents’ cabin that I realized I finally had a source of moss. I got the jar at the Hinckley flea market, put the terrarium together, and brought it back with me. So now part of the Sandstone forest is in my house. I like getting a good lungful of the damp, clean air inside the terrarium — it’s like the opposite of getting stuck in a cloud of secondhand smoke. So nobody ruin it for me by saying there are millions of spores or something floating around in there.