Finally held my breath, disconnected the cable box, and took it back to the Brighthouse office. Guess what? It didn't hurt! I actually don't miss it at all. The best part? I just got my latest cable bill yesterday and it was WAYYY less.
In garden news, I'm going to have a bumper crop of tomatoes shortly. I'm up to ~15 tomato plants (Beefsteak, Celebrity, and Roma). I'm sticking them all over the place. BLT sandwich, here I come!
I've already harvested a sizable load of radishes, and will be starting a new planting very shortly The Jalapeno plants are at full capacity and I couldn't resist snitching a few before they were really ready for a batch of chili. Carrots are doing their usual slooowwwww grow. They take forever.
Unfortunately it got too hot too quickly for the iceberg lettuce. Just when they were getting ready to form the head, they bolted (went to flowering/seed) and are now ruined. The leaves turn instantly bitter once the plant bolts. I'll pull them out and cry as they go into the compost pile. The red lettuce is doing very well and the Romaine has gone completely nuts. So it's not a total loss.
I've also just sprouted 18 Trinidad Butch T Scorpion pepper plants. Up until very recently (and it's still being hotly debated), these peppers were rated as hottest in the world at 1.6 million Scoville units. Yes, that's unbelievably hot, and yes, I've eaten one raw. They actually have a very good flavor up until the heat comes on. Then it's pure pain that lasts for about 15-20 minutes.
The little beer/wing place that I frequent has a standing challenge to eat 6 wings in 6 minutes with no drink during the challenge. He uses my peppers along with Ghost & Bhut Jolokia peppers for the wing sauce and it is pretty brutal. I was in there one night and he wanted me to try the latest batch, so he brought out a couple of the wings on a plate. I ate one and the guy next to me wanted to try the other one. I didn't care, so he ate it. He almost started to cry. It was about then that I explained to him that the peppers used to make the hot sauce were mine. The poor guy must have drank a gallon of water (like that helped at all). So if anyone wants to be really brave (or stupid), I've got just the thing.
I'll get some pics and do a proper update shortly.
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