Rain and Storms

The plus side regarding all this rain for me is I'm getting plenty of excersize cutting my yard and my parents yard...earlier in the year I was working so much overtime it didn't matter whether it rained, sleeted, snowed or hailed, I wasn't able to go fishing anyway. The bad news is I feel a terrible pattern here, every few months or so as I'm getting ready and psyched to hit the water (early spring, winter, late winter, fall, etc) to fish, something always happens to make it so I have to put any fishing trip off a week, then two weeks, then three weeks and so on, and before I realize it the dag gone best days are gone and I find myself thinking: "C'mon fall, I'm not going to let fall fishing pass me by this year!" Time will tell.

I know lots of you fish the Ohio and also fish at night, etc, and there's probably some good fishin' to be had, but right now for me I will probably only fish the farm pond and maybe drown some minnows, worms or crickets in search of crappie or blue gill while fishing off the back of the Sea Ray with the wife (yes I'm one of those summer boater types that everyone complains about)...the only difference is this: "About a week ago the wife and I were at Indian Creek on LC...we're early birds anyway so as soon as we got up and took the dog's up the hill to do their business we headed up towards the dam on one of the foggiest mornings I've seen in June. Once we got to the mouth of Indian Creek some boats started coming into view that were striper fishing...the fog was so thick I said the heck with it and shut the motor down and drifted. My wife commented on how quiet it was and how peaceful the fishing boats looked in the distance with all the fog, etc, my response to her was: "I feel like we're invading their space."

Fish on feller's, these crazy weather patterns will soon cease and we'll be picking tomatos! Bacon, lettuce, mayo and a THICK slice of tomato please.

Chub, I absolutely love bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, with homegrown maters of course and home grown lettuce to if available. Dang brother that's some good eatin!

The rain has killed a couple fishing trips for me, but my garden, especially the tomatoes, is looking better than it has in years, so on the whole, I'm not complaining. I've only had to water once or twice this year. "There's only two things that money can't buy, and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."

Homegrown Tomatoes
by Guy Clark

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden

Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat `em with egss, eat `em with gravy
Eat `em with beans, pinto or navy
Put `em on the site put `em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I's to change this life I lead
I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed
`Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetary
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes

[QUOTE=mhall;372721]Chub, I absolutely love bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, with homegrown maters of course and home grown lettuce to if available. Dang brother that's some good eatin![/QUOTE]

Take a guess what I have already planned for lunch. You haven't eaten a tomato until you eat Grainger County, TN tomatoes. They are so flavorful and juicy you can smell them across the kitchen when they are being sliced. Mmmm, yummy! I'll think of you when I bite into my big, thick, BLT sandwich with potato chips on the side and a glass of iced tea. Warm pecan pie with whipped cream for dessert.

I'll be frying up some thick sliced hickory smoked bacon to make sure I get it just right.

[QUOTE=bassin_bug;372736]Take a guess what I have already planned for lunch. You haven't eaten a tomato until you eat Grainger County, TN tomatoes. They are so flavorful and juicy you can smell them across the kitchen when they are being sliced. Mmmm, yummy! I'll think of you when I bite into my big, thick, BLT sandwich with potato chips on the side and a glass of iced tea. Warm pecan pie with whipped cream for dessert.

I'll be frying up some thick sliced hickory smoked bacon to make sure I get it just right.[/QUOTE]

Dang Bug ain't it a little early for ripe ones just yet. Mine are probly two weeks away just yet.

[QUOTE=mhall;372746]Dang Bug ain't it a little early for ripe ones just yet. Mine are probly two weeks away just yet.[/QUOTE]

Mark if you're two weeks away you're doing good...heck I'm just hoping for some ripe one's by the third week of July! All in all I'd say the back yard farmers are doing well this year, not so sure about the big farms, they might of got to much rain.

I picked some cherry tomatoes yesterday morning and ate them on a salad. I have lots of tomatoes, but mine are not quite ripe. I have 16 plants out and it looks like by this time next week I will be awash in 'maters. Time to get out the canning jars.

[QUOTE=mhall;372746]Dang Bug ain't it a little early for ripe ones just yet. Mine are probly two weeks away just yet.[/QUOTE]

Not around here. I drove past some commercial tomato fields last weekend and they have crops of all ages. Some are just blooming, some had green tomatoes, and some with ripe tomatoes. One of the farms is already providing them to grocery stores. I have a couple of big, ripe, juicy Grainger County tomatoes sitting on the cabinet as I write this.

I've got exactly two red cherry tomatoes that are almost ripe, with lots more on the way! I've got a total of 10 plants out, various varieties, and they're all doing well, but the "Giant Beefsteak" plants are anything but giants. The plants are considerably smaller than my others, and they don't have as much fruit, although what they do have is good sized. Is that pretty normal for that variety, or am I doing something wrong?

Thursday afternoon, more big Boomers with torrential rains, wind and possible hail, WOW, two whole dry days in a row, WOO HOO!

That forecast concerns me....figures we are planning to be on the water.:(

[QUOTE=DJD;372876]That forecast concerns me....figures we are planning to be on the water.:([/QUOTE]

Save me one and don't sore mouth'em all. It's a 30 to 40% chance which lately has translated into you better hide, lol.