Summer Is Coming to an End (Almost)

DH and I are actually on the same page when it comes to Renaissance Festival this year. We want to be there for opening day (this weekend), final weekend, and the week that Sharon is in town (Labor Day weekend). The rest of Fest is optional. I suspect driving there and back will be a bit of a nightmare - every major roadway through the Cities is under construction right now. Driving from anywhere to anywhere else is a challenging obstacle course of detours and changing routes. 

The roadways in the Twin Cities right now are a sea of 
orange signage and barriers. Getting from anywhere to 
anywhere else is almost impossible and takes twice the 
normal time. *sigh*

Does your area also have two seasons? Our seasons equate to Winter and Road Construction Season. The minute the snow or threat of major snow has gone, the orange cones and barriers come up. Right now every major freeway through the Cities from North to South and from East to West has some type of construction going on. I remember when I went to Minneapolis to test with my memory Doctor. A simple 30 minute drive turned into a one hour nightmare. Awful! 

The photo is a stock photo, NOT my own photo, but it's 
serrano peppers on the left, and habanero peppers on 
the right. I use peppers in my cooking often, and both of 
these are bearing well. I also have three other types of 
peppers. I'll be dehydrating them, mincing them, and using 
them in my meals throughout the winter months. 
Pickling them is also a thought, though. 

But as the summer wanes and we get closer to the closing of our outdoor pool (sniff, sniff, weep), I have to be grateful because we've actually had a wonderful summer thus far. My crops are doing great - I have peppers and more peppers coming ripe! I'll have to do a bit of research. I know I can dehydrate my peppers, but I'm wondering about pickling some of them. It's a thought, at any rate. So my peppers are doing great, and my cherry tomatoes are also doing wonderfully. The bean plants are now bearing well, so I'd better get cooking those I've already harvested. That's on tomorrow's agenda. 

My green and waxed bean plants are also coming into 
their pride now. Guess I'll be cooking some beans 
tomorrow because I'm getting a bit out of hand on the 
harvest right now. 

Today, I'm off to the pool. I'm looking forward to my swim. It's already the 12th of August and I only have nine more days of swimming in the outdoor pool until Labor Day. I'd better enjoy all of it because it'll be a long year until the outdoor pool opens once again. Have an excellent Tuesday and I'm out of here. Slava Ukraini.