Busy Days

It still feels like winter here on some days and yet I've been so busy doing summer things.  I guess 54 to 65 degrees isn't exactly winter but it sure isn't my idea of summer either!  The garden is finally in.  Except I just realized last night that I forgot to plant peas.  Sigh.  Maybe we won't have peas this year.  We ended up with tomatoes, green beans, yellow beans, summer squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, zucchini, green peppers, hot pepper, various herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, pumpkins, pickles, cucumbers, various lettuces, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and artichokes.  Artichokes are new.  I wonder if they'll grow?  I also put in raspberries and the strawberry patch is already full of little green strawberries.  Then the flowers.  I put borders of sunflowers all over the yard, columbines, petunias, marigolds, pansy's & then we have the mystery plants that I bought half-dead last fall.  They are coming on really well.  Whatever they are.  I should start writing this stuff down.  Oh, & lavendar.




 What a gorgeous place.  We stayed at his buddy's house, a log house on a lake surrounded by mountains.  We saw white tail deer, mule deer, elk, antelope, coyotes, a fox, a badger, and a million pesky ground squirrels.  It was so amazing to sit on the deck with my morning coffee and watch deer drinking from the lake.  Of course, I tried to coax them to me and they ran away, but hey, it was worth a try.





Someone mentioned morel mushrooms and we went straight to the woods to try to find some but came up empty handed.  Those darn morel mushroom hunters won't give their spots away for anything ~ we apparently were led on a wild goose-chase!





Even though it was entirely too cold to go swimming, Ryan and Amanda had to go down to the lake and at least dip their feet in.  Ryan split the front of his shorts open climbing around on a dock and this is the resulting goofy picture!  (a picture really can paint a thousand words, can't it?)




Now we're home and today was tagged for moving the mountain of compost we had dropped off yesterday onto the yard and then re-seeding but it's raining so I may get a day's reprieve.  My blisters have turned into callouses so I'm toughening up.  Ahhh, summer . . . now for some warm weather?