09-11-2026 — 25 years

Howdy all. First, and utmost, I want to say my thanks and reverence to those that helped during and after that tragic day in New York. While many lives were lost immediately, many were saved by heroes that ended up losing their own lives from the ravages of the chemicals drenching the area, from the assault. I recently saw a patriotic tagline on the web that said, “Home of the Free, because of the Brave”. It is not just soldiers that have given their all for us. You all were, and are, appreciated.

It is a lovely late fall day here with temperatures starting in the 50s and only low 60s now. After taking trash to curb this morning, I stopped to pick some cherry tomatoes since I had tossed all of the prior into the pot yesterday.   There were also about six big tomatoes that hadn’t completely ripened on the counter.   I ended up darn near filling a two gallon bag with new big ones, that are almost ripened, and another quart bowl of cherry sized.  

The plants are looking shabby but have many larger green tomatoes that could ripen in next week.  The cherry plants look pretty beat up too.   But weeks of green tomatoes left.  

There may be a dozen peppers around golf ball size that are running out of warm weather to grow.

Picked these today

Ended up with this pile again on the counter finishing their ripening cycle.

These are the quarts of sauce from yesterday. My tomatoes and onions, with store bought peppers and lots of dead animal chunks.

I guess that I’ve already got five or six bags of frozen tomatoes in the freezer too.  Running out of room.   

Maybe I’ll do a pot of just tomatoes and use the stick blender to make it puree like sauce with no extra ingredients.  And use smaller containers.   It could be used as big flavor cubes for soups or something. 

I planted half as many tomato plants as last year and have harvested easily twice as much at this point.  Last year I was pulling out the plants and there were just a few unripe tomatoes left.  

There were many speeches about memories from 9/11. Here is mine.

I, and my crew, were in New York immediately after the blast. We were doing our best to help those poor people. We did everything we could. But, at one point, well, the building I was near started creaking. It was going to fall too. The crew was running away. I stood there, and two very large fireman, and I do mean large. Hey, I’m a big person. Really big, and not easy to move. Anyway, these two men picked me up, and carried me away to safety.

Oh, wait. This wasn’t my story. It is the story T-Rump tells, and expands, each time 9/11 is mentioned. And yet, there isn’t a single piece of evidence (or big fireman) that can collaborate this piece of total freaking fiction. UGH. That really pisses me off.

And as a side note, the president said yesterday that he wants his MAGA party to act like he is on this upcoming ballot.   And if he wins he’ll give every adult person in the U.S. a $5000 check. —- Don’t worry about adding another TRILLION $$ to the national debt. Immaterial.  

So I am begging you to tell every MAGA person you see to do as he asked.  And that if they don’t see his name as running for a specific post, write his name in.  Yes, do that for every Senator for every state. And for every House of Representative. Do this at both the national and state level.  And write-in his name for every school board, and county or city spot. Shoot, write-in his name for dog catcher.'

If they vote for T-Rump, they are not voting for his minions, and they will all be out of a job. And the sooner that happens, the sooner we can all Enjoy Life