Gettin' Ready for Spaghetti!

What now looks like this:

...started out looking like this:

So yeah, I guess all that freaking rain has done some good.

This is my spaghetti garden - full of everything you'd need to make the perfect putanesca sauce - lots of different varieties of tomatoes, peppers, celery, carrots and fennel. We even have spaghetti squash in our spaghetti garden!

We're on day three of sunshine and I dare not bring it up for fear of jinxing it and having to endure 30 more days of rain like last month. There's an off chance that summer might just have made the long trek from the tropics to rest on our crimson shores a while. Just in time for us to leave on vacation. The irony does not escape me.