REFLECTIONS

Hopefully it will continue growing down the other side of the trellis.  We should have planted one on both sides so they could meet in the center. Here is a seed pod.

My brother Tony sent me this link.  I think everyone has a day like this sometimes. Every now and again someone puts into words what so many people are feeling! Read this amazing email and let us know if you can relate.    Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. – Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. But then I think, So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the

I have more Basil than I can use right away so I'm going to freeze some.  This is one of my six plants. Here's the procedure I'll try: (From the web) My cucumbers are growing faster than I can eat them. Here are three from the past two days. I'll try to pickle some of them by using this recipe from  Easy Summertime Sweet Pickles | McCormick EASY SUMMERTIME SWEET PICKLES These easy-to-prepare sweet pickles require no special jars or vacuum sealing since they are stored in the refrigerator. Perfect for when you have a bounty of cucumbers. INGREDIENTS 2 cups thinly sliced cucumbers (1/4-inch thick) 1/2 cup thinly sliced sweet onion 1 cup cider vinegar 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon McCormick® Celery Seed 1 teaspoon McCormick® Mustard Seed 1 teaspoon non-iodized salt PREPARATION 1. Place cucumber slices and onions in medium glass bowl. Set aside. Mix remaining ingredients in medium saucepan. Bring to boil on medium-high heat, st

The plants are growing past the top screen! This is the top of the tomato plant.  I'm not going to trim it, want to see what happens next.  Will tomatoes grow on top of the screen? Here's another angle where you can see in the back row how the cucumber plants are also growing above the screen. Only one eggplant so far. The tomato plant is doing great.

This morning Lynette found this wasp nest. She was scared and I don't blame her. The way she described it at first, I thought there was something terribly wrong with the house. I wondered if something like part of the roof had caved in.     You can see the wasps going into and coming out of the nest. This looks like a very scary and unhappy face. Now we'll have to find someone to take down the nest. This is the first time such a large wasp nest was in our yard.