It rained last night; that and a cobweb on our fence was nice excuse to get out my macro lens.

Apparently if you leave cukes on the vine too long, they turn orange.

Today I decided to make some pasta sauce from scratch; those are the gardens that went into it, fresh out of the garden. The basil beside the bowl also came straight from the garden.

I had a checkup this past Monday for the first time in years and years and most stuff was good. The doctor suggested I loose some weight and of course Project De-Blobination was already well under way. But on Friday he called to say that my blood work came back and that my iron levels were low resulting in me being slightly anemic. I guess it isn’t too surprising since I’m vegetarian and we need to be careful about that.

So, I’m on an iron supplement and I’m also going to try to eat more iron-y foods.

NaNoWriMo is, of course, in November, but I’ve begun scribbling down ideas. I think this year I’m going to write urban fantasy, which is something of a new genre for me. I’ve written fiction with fantastical elements in it, but not fantasy proper. There probably won’t be any vampires in it.

This was done with my macro lens; I really like how you can see the texture of the ink. (It’s quite prominent if you click through to flickr and check out the full-sized version)

I think mayo is gross and even back in my meat eating days I was meh on bacon, so I find this kind of horrifying.

We got it for Jessica’s brother-in-law for his birthday :P

You call them jalapeños, I call them future salsa and chilli ingredients!

These are out of the garden. Our peppers are doing really well — we only got a couple of them last year.