Okay, here's a simple, tasty way to eat okra and tomatoes. Blanch the okra--it will be quite tender but still firm. Slice a ripe tomate. Take a bite of okra, then a bite of tomato. The acidity of the tomato helps with the slim factor (which really isn't too bad with blanced okra to start with).
Fusion, you said you used a chain saw to cut down your 15 ft okar. A couple of years ago, my husband started out with a shovel to remove the okra plants at the end of the season. No go. Got the car out and tried to pull the okra out. Rope just slipped off. Finally got the tractor out and used the front end loader to knock them out of the ground. Yikes.
