my hard working tomato plant

I had no idea that my tomato plants would #1 produce SO many tomatoes and #2 that they would be so amazingly DELICIOUS! Last night, I was starving. Tyler is out of town which means I was off the hook for dinner. The kids had wheat thins, ice cream sandwiches, I think a few had a waffle or two and the rest had peanut butter and fluff. So around 10 PM I was needing some REAL food. I wandered into the kitchen and saw some of my beautiful tomatoes on the counter. I opened the fridge and there was a little baggie with some crumbled bacon, so I made a BLT. Smothered some good ole "stick to the roof of your mouth" white bread with some mayo (the real stuff), sliced into one of the tomatoes, sprinkled some coarse salt and fresh cracked pepper and then bit into the most mouth watering sandwich I have ever had. It was so good, that I had to call my mom to tell her about it (she has had my tomatoes and wishes there were a way to mail them to her). So this afternoon, when I as grubbing around in the kitchen, looking for something to eat, I HAD to make another one....just minus the bacon. And to tell you the truth, I didn't even miss it! In fact, it was so good, I had a second one! MMMM.

And look at my tomato plant. For months now, it had been giving us delicious tomatoes. And the poor thing...a part of every plant is dead or dying. Its needing to be propped up to keep limbs from snapping or from falling over. I thought it would have quit giving tomatoes awhile ago, but the old thing is still pumping them out! I feel a weird sense of sisterhood with this plant. I know what it going through. Limbs bending and breaking in order to support the fruit, so many green baby tomatoes hanging everywhere, working well into the "fall of its lifetime". It may look a little rough around the edges, probably needs as good pruning or something, but despite its outward appearance, those tomatoes are the best I've ever had. The plant never complains about the bugs on it, or that the dog sometimes uses the grass in front of it as a bathroom. It just keeps working...making more tomatoes. So hears to you, my devoted hard working plant! Keep up the good work and I will try to follow your lead.