Monday morning. Up early, off to an organized, productive week. Water the flower garden, 1 hour. Off for my morning walk before it gets too hot and before the vegetable man arrives. Honk, honk, honk, honk....the vegetable man has arrived in the village an hour and a half earlier than normal. Must be the heat and the new summer schedule. Hour walk has now changed to 30 minutes, when he will arrive at my doorstep.

I am always so happy to see the kind "jardinier" and chances are, I am one of his best customers because we eat ALOT of fruits and vegetables. And since he is such a great service to the village, I continue to buy produce from him, even when I have my own garden in production. I am the last stop as he leaves the village, so often he will give me "gratuit" something that is looking a little droopy. Today I was the lucky recipient of about 30-40 long, mild salad peppers, 3 cauliflower, and 2 extra heads of garden lettuce....in addition to my own collection for the week. My morning has now changed to figuring out where to put all of my fruits and vegetables and what to do with 30 red and green peppers? By now, I am also thinking about preparing the noon meal for my hot, hard working farmer. I decide to roast the peppers and put them in jars to have on hand in the fridge. Delicious. Fish, salad, and a vegetable casserole for lunch. Got it. It is now 3pm, lunch is over, and I have accomplished "le dejeuner" (lunch), and 2 large jars of beautiful roasted red and green peppers. Alain is taking a siesta, since he has been up since 5am, so I try to be as quiet as a mouse, which means I cannot clean up the huge mess I have created. C'est la vie. After siesta. That should take up some time before I start thinking about dinner. Thank goodness I love food. My big, get organized day, has resulted in watering the flower garden, making lunch, 2 jars of roasted peppers, and a blog post. Life in the lazy South!

Peppers. You never know what each day brings.

Rebecca Little

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