Fresh beans and dinner too!

Basket of beans!

Almost ready!

For dinner tonight, JD prepared a wonderful zucchini au gratin casserole. It was sooooo delicious!
After dinner, we walked the puppies and the big dogs, then headed down to the garden where we picked a bunch of beans, mostly green but some wax beans too! Also, harvested a couple more zucchini's along with a couple beets, they keep coming! We're very thankful the garden is providing us with fresh veggies! It's so rewarding to grow your own food!

Monday morning soaker....

I guess that I better start tracking the weather better! We are currently getting a much needed drenching and I'm loving it! There is nothing better than waking up to rain in the middle of the night, well, maybe there are some better things! :-) Anyway, as all of you with garden's can relate to, free water is like gold! I soaked our garden last night for 3 hours. Even though it is well water, it still is water from the earth, which is no means an infinite source. I learned a valuable lesson, I need to keep track of forecasted weather conditions, period! Speaking of that, if anyone can shed some light on what happened to the wide variety of gadgets available for blogs from Blogger? I had a weather gadget and it has vanished into thin air?? The only one I can find does not allow me to keep it set to my zip code, it defaults to N.Y.

And by the way, I have no problem giving up a sunrise picture here and there for a nice rain soaked morning! It's still coming down, I bet we have gotten an inch or two. The puppies had no problem going out and getting wet this morning while they did their business, their mom and aunt on the other hand, took issues with the weather and went back to bed! Dogs!

Anyway, have an awesome day, rain or shine it's going to be a great one!

R Dean

Sunday garden chronical

More yellow pear and chocolate cherry tomatoes!

Beets and Greens

Beans are looking promising!

Beets and more Zucchini's

We were pleasantly surprised to find more zucchini's today, along with our first harvest of beets! JD cooked the beets and the greens, the greens tasted like spinach..very good! The garden was pretty dry so it is getting some much needed water tonight. We're looking forward to our beans, they should be ready to harvest within the next week or so, along with some cucumbers.

Please take a look at the one zucchini in the middle, is that perhaps a different type of zucchini or did it just not get enough sun? It has a light green color to it, in contrast to the typical deep, dark green color the others have. If anyone has an idea, please let us know.

R Dean