Ready For Relish...

While I've been receiving lovely zucchini recently, I couldn't start making our favorite relish until I located locally grown green (and/or red) peppers. When I contacted local growers, I was told that they didn't have many because the growing season wasn't conducive to a large crop this year. As I need peppers, I had to keep looking.

Two days ago, I found someone in the next county who was advertising hers for 75¢ each. I asked her if she had about twenty five of them, and she told me she would check her garden after work. Later that day she contacted me to tell me she did have that many, but some were a little deformed. I asked her, taking that into account, how much would she charge me if I took all of them. She replied, $12.00. I jumped.

After my physical therapy appointment yesterday - I got to 124º bend, by the way!!!  - Handsome drove us to this lady's home where the peppers were waiting on her porch for us. They're gorgeous, and I've yet to find one of those "deformed" ones. This basket is full, and I now have what I need to make the zucchini pepper relish. That's what I'll be doing today.

A few of you mentioned my cow image yesterday when I shared it on Facebook. I got it at Hobby Lobby last year, and only just put it up recently. I looks a lot different in this daylight photograph than in yesterday's post, which I took under artificial light. I'm rather fond of it myself. HobLob still has lots of farmhouse images, which I really love. Problem is we just don't have the wall space. It's probably just as well. sigh

We don't have anything planned for this weekend, so Handsome will help me with this project, and then we'll take it easy. Enjoy your holiday weekend, friends.