Our little garden and the impending storm

We have been working on a little garden it isn't much because we do not know what we are doing when it comes to gardening. Our garden has given us a few treats though, the first one is these flowers. we planted some seeds in our garden a few months ago and now the flowers are so tall that they need help staying upright. We cut these and put them in a vase to decorate our kitchen table. Also, a month or so ago I bought a plant at Lowe's that was labeled "green pepper great for this environment" They were not kidding about the great for this environment part it took over a whole section of our garden but turns out it is not producing green peppers but cucumbers. That is the whitish thing in the sink in the second picture. They are huge and don't seem to be turning green but if you cut them open they taste just like a cucumber. We also have a rosemary plant that we used for the first time last night in some soup I made. So it turns out without really intending to have a garden at all we produced a few nice things.

Gustav - looks like he's coming our way. They are predicting it will be a Cat 3 when it makes landfall between Mon. and Tues. We already have booked a hotel room in Troy, MS for Monday and Tuesday nights using our Hilton Honors points. That is about 5 hours NE from here and the closest place we could find with available rooms. So we are not taking any chances. We are planning to leave really early Monday morning if the traffic looks bad. We will keep you all posted on how things are going with that.