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Eggplants

Big tomatoes

Little tomatoes

The death bed. Stuff in here isn't looking too good.

Mum's

the

word

Fading Queen of Hearts Petunias

More mums

Himself was weed whacking along the side of the house, but didn't have the heart to whack the hollyhock. In memory of Mitty.

Mutant Broccoli

Eh, wadamalone! In a makeshift greenhouse to keep out the critters

May the odds be ever in your favor. 

You may or may not remember last week, I took a picture of the first watermelon. Himself had read on the Internet (so it must be true!) that you pick your watermelon by Labor Day. He picked it, and it was too early for picking. It tasted sweet but the color of the flesh was pale pink and the seeds looked more like beans. Something wasn't right. So far, he is leaving the other two alone.

Sedum

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Lettuce

Tomato

Eh, Waddamalone!

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We had a couple of visitors to the yard, a deer

and a hawk. The hawk was probably a Cooper's hawk as we've seen him/her from time to time.

This picture of Quill could work as a cartoon with the bunny in a thought bubble. Quill dreaming of bunny rabbits. Or the rabbit blissfully unaware how close to death s/he is.

A Monarch butterfly hung out for a while

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The Friday Five Good Things

 Five good things that happened this week.

1. Last month, I applied for the  old people's parking pass to Massachusetts state parks. The pass is for people 60 and over, costs a one time fee of $10, and is good for life! I think they figure us Weebles aren't going to last long.

2. I made giambotta, an Italian vegetable stew, with veggies from the garden.

3. We celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with Chinese food take-out and hanging out in the sunroom.

4. I Skyped  Microsoft Teamed with the Young One

5.  I received some Happy Mail 

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Ink's garden looks so pretty with the morning glories and sunflowers. I was hoping the morning glories would be the Heavenly Blue variety, but they didn't take. The morning glories that came up are from the seeds Reggie Ezell gave us after completing his year long, master class, 26 Seeds in 2017.  These morning glories keep reseeding themselves. Himself calls them weeds. Weeds or not, I think they are very pretty

A beautiful sunset

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The Friday Five Good Things

 

Five good things that happened this week.

1. I heard from my high school friend who is moving from California to Arizona. The renovations to the house haven't been finished yet so they won't be moving until the end of the month. I'm glad I didn't send the new home card yet.

2. The Eldest Door Dashed donuts for breakfast.

3. The first ripe tomato and cucumber when to making a cucumber and tomato sandwich on brioche for lunch. Okay, it was Wonder Bread and still delicious

4. During bookbinding class learned about a jig to make perfect mitered corners. Found a different tool that does that plus has  4 other features for less money!

5. A lady at the hairdresser let me go ahead of her so I could have the hairdresser I like to cut my hair

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Before A's hard work

After. 

He will come back to dig out the hostas and daylilies

Before

After

I didn't take a before picture, but this is the area, A weeded and mulched two weeks ago.

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Monet and Me

 

are trying to think of a name for the scarecrow. Any ideas?

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It's been so hot and humid, mushrooms are growing all over the place

Tomatoes, anyone?

The petunias love the heat and humidity

Ink's garden got weeded and mulched

Buds on the morning glory vine. I hope this variety is Heavenly Blue

and that it survives whatever is munching on the leaves.

Samwise in his charging station. Every once in a while, he'll call out, "Ready to work!" A disembodied voice is disconcerting if one is busy in the bathroom.

Watermelon. I hear the men with pushcarts coming down Chelsea St. by Auntie's house in East Boston. At the time, EB was a predominantly Italian neighborhood. The men would be calling, "Eh! Waddamelone!"

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A delicate moth or butterfly in the lettuce. It almost looks like the lettuce is flying away.

"A" came over to help Himself with yardwork. He weeded this area in record time

The next area to be weeded

and the next.

Hydrangea doing nicely

A couple of more blueberries

Pokeberry

Corn

tomatoes

cherry tomatoes

eggplant

peppers

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