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Difficult Week and some harvest today

This entire week has been really stressful to me. I lost my brother, Allah Yerhama, and the pain was unbearable. I felt really bad and the fact that I hadn't seen him for a long time was making the things even worse. My mom and sis are also in a different country and  apart from grieving for my brother I was also worried about my mom. I talked to her daily to check up on her but I know it's not the same as being around her. I still find myself weeping at times but I know that it disturbs the souls of those who left this world so I try to control myself,  though it's difficult.
I stayed away from the garden for a few days but I knew if I'd stay longer it'd be in a mess, and plus my we'd waste so much produce that is fresh and organic.
Tomatoes are ripening nicely, courgettes are still going strong and pickling cucumbers have taken off. Salads are doing perfect and herbs are good too.
Today I went out and did a proper "harvesting". I got more than 1 kg of courgettes, around a kg of tomatoes, herbs, 2 bunches of lettuce, 2 heads of bok choy, 2 bunches of curly endive, 2 cucumbers (there for pickling, which I already did 2 jars, but today I'll try them fresh), 1 beet, 4 carrots and 4 scarlet radishes. I only harvest what I need, there's so much more Mashallah. Scarlet radishes are interesting thing. I guess you really need to harvest them young cuz some have grown such long roots they almost look like red carrots.
I'm cooking a baked herbed chicken, herbs from the garden of course. Gonna do some potatoes (sadly I didn't grow any this year), and mixed greens as a side. Greens are of course all from the garden. I always use radish and beet leaves. Radish leaves I always cook, except the white radish leaves which we consume fresh cuz they're smooth and yummy.  Beet leaves I use cooked if they're old and in salad if they're young.
Some pics are below.