Colder Weather (again) ~ 43 degrees! What?!

 I have yet to remedy the websites using my blog for whatever they are using it for.  The views cut down by about 200, but considering I posted a very, very short post yesterday, it's still getting 300 views from advertiser businesses and other businesses.  All to read about how they are using my blog too.

It is very annoying to be honest.  I have not had a lot of time to work on putting a stop to it, but I did look into a few of the sites to "opt" out and there were no options to remove my blog.  Not sure what to do next.  If I do remedy the situation, I will remove the page breaks on my posts.

The majority of viewers are from Hong Kong and Singapore (huh?).  Like it's been suggested, AI may be the reason, and one we cannot avoid, as Blogger has very little privacy options.

The weather dipped again, and it dipped much cooler than we anticipated.  It went to 43 degrees!  The San Marzano tomatoes are pretty much 3/4th green and the rest more of an orange.  Nothing is ripe, other than our beef type and cherry type heirloom tomatoes.  I'm tempted to just pick all of the somewhat turned tomatoes and bring them inside.

Here is the reality of gardening . . . 

Moldy vegetables, rotten spots even before ripe, and most all weather related.  

And check this out . . .

It is a mashed potato squash.  It should be white and it is yellow!  The ones on the same vine are white, but not very big.  Cross pollination??  Crazy!  There are at least two that turned yellow.

We are getting a good amount of our cherry and beef type tomatoes to add to our meals.

We are getting some bell peppers despite, but they are much smaller and the harvest is much smaller this year.  The hot peppers are much smaller and again, the harvest is much less than any year before (not even enough hot banana to can).

The potato plants died off, so the potatoes were dug up.  We laughed, as they look like we planted "fingerling" potatoes. They are about 1/3rd of the size they should be.  Sigh.

While our Red Russian Kale is being eaten by something, the Swiss chard is still doing pretty good.  I brought more in to roast them.

The recipe is from Allrecipes.  You bake the stems with onion (we add bell pepper and freshly minced garlic), then take it out and layer the chopped greens (tossed in olive oil, salt and pepper), and top with feta cheese.  Bake it again and it's delicious.

It doesn't look like much, but it's pretty good, and we love it for a side dish for about any meal.  

We are getting sporadic rainfall, but nothing to help anything in the garden.  The colder nights will continue for another week they say.  

Colder Weather (again) ~ 43 degrees!  What?!  ©  August 2025 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart