Running Chick

Inspired by Dr. Frasier Crane, we decided to branch out from our usual wine selections and try sherry. Smooth and warm with a hint of vanilla, caramel and pear and 18% alcohol by volume.  It's strictly for sipping (as opposed to Jim Beam bourbon which I typically just bash back).

At $7.00/bottle it's pretty cheap.  Although we'll never know if it's the Boone's Farm of sherrys until we try some of higher quality.

You must drink sherry out of fancy sherry glasses to acquire the appropriate snootiness factor.  Good thing I inherited such snooty glassware from my grandma.

Back in May, I bought a little cherry tomato plant from Wally(mart).  It lived on my deck, getting plenty of sun and water all summer long.  It grew slowly and didn't flower until August, but nothing ever happened.  I figured it was a dud.

When the weather started getting cooler, I brought it inside.  It had a few flowers left on it, but not that many.  Those flowers did eventually turn into fruit, but not as much as I was expecting.  But whatever.  I got to have a few salads with "real" tomatoes at least.  After the fruit was gone, I figured it would croak and that would be the end of that.

Well, it didn't.  After all the fruit was gone, it started growing like a weed.  It's outgrown it's cage to the point where I've had to carefully wind the branches around the cage just to keep them from breaking off.  So, I figured I'd keep on watering it and see what happened.

The other week I noticed three tiny little flowers had appeared.  Then more showed up.  Now, this week a couple of those flowers have turned into tiny tomatoes!

Look!