Sunday morning harvest...

We were able to spend about an hour this morning poking around the garden, pulling some weeds, admiring the veggies and even picking some too! We harvested our first ears of corn, and cooked it up tonight for dinner..it was so tender and sooo good! Got more beans, beets, squash, zuchinni, carrots, onions AND some brocolli! We'll be eating good this week!

I'm also happy to say the transplanted tomatoes seem to be coming along well, and the cucumbers are starting to come to life, they have been kind of slow to grow this season, not sure why! Our melon's are growing like crazy and the vines are spreading like wild fire! If they all make it, we'll have way too many for ourselves, so we'll be giving some away to friends and family.

R Dean

Finally Friday...

Watermelon's...

"Baby" Butternut Squash

"Juvenile" Butternut Squash

First of five or so transplanted sunflowers to open up!

Well, my morning started off fun! Maggy, decided she would go across the road to her Rocket's farm....wasn't that special! So, after herding her back onto our property and putting her inside, I went out to let the pups out only to find that Bucky left me two surprises in his kennel! That was really special!! Wooohooo..what a way to start off the day! Hahahaha.....But then it all got better, as I reminded myself how lucky I am!

Hope you enjoy your day because I will definitely be enjoying mine!

Peace...

R Dean

Garden story...

Tonight after dinner, we meandered down to the garden as we do every night, eager to see what new treasures awaited us. Unfortunately, the replanted tomatoes aren't looking too good, but we still have hope that they will survive and produce! The good news, we harvested another yellow squash, a bunch of beans, mostly wax, some more lettuce and three more zuchinni's! Very rewarding! We finally have a cucumber coming along as well, so hopefully the next few days of warm weather will really get the garden cooking!

And finally, the most interesting garden story...JD was pulling weeds around the lettuce and noticed a pile of mulch. After moving it around with her gloves, to her surprise it was a nest of what appeared to be a litter of five mice that appeared to be a day or two old. Needless to say, she was very "surprised"! I played good hubby and removed them right away! :-)

R Dean