And Now for Something Completely the Same

8 am

Well, got up this am and it is cloudy.  There is a small chance of rain, and I hope we get some.  The pond is about 4 feet low, and I am pulling water out of it every other day for the garden.

I made green beans, yellow wax beans and potatoes for church today, all out of my garden.  I also made my best beets, also out of my garden.  I love doing beets cause they smell so earthy.  There is nothing quite like them.

When I was picking beans, I noticed one cucumber on my vines, which are loaded with flowers.  And my soy is starting to make beans, and my corn is tasseling.  Won't be long before I will be LOADED with produce and will be complaining even more about picking, canning and freezing.  Poor me.

It also appears that I have a verigated lemon basil in my garden.  All of a sudden I am surrounded by verigation.  Is someone trying to tell me something?

two tone basil

10 am

My baybays are tweens now.  They have all of their feathers except on their heads and tails.  When I let them out in the morning, they can't wait to leave the house.  Ah, how quickly they grow up.

out and about

I turned the irrigation on.  I don't know how much longer the pond is going to hold out.  It is really low.

grass growing where water should be

Now off to church.

1:30 pm.

Home from church and the last in the first series of eco-christian lessons.  We are now ready to apply for green status.  Our lessons will come from a new book and will be once a month.  I get to lead the first one.  It really looks like fun.

And, no rain yet.

So at 4 today we will do our first adopt-a-highway trash pickup.  We have 4 people AWOL but one space is being filled by our neighbor's daughter's boyfriend.   What a guy!  Helping us pick up trash instead of relaxing on a nice clean date.

7:30 pm

Whew, got home.  It took us three hours to do one mile.  I think this first go round we will do one mile per sunday and maybe after that there won't be so much trash.  Some of this stuff has been here for YEARS.

NOT under the gun

before

after

still no rain.

Got in the house and drank a gallon of water, put the chickies up, did this blog and am now going to watch Hee Haw and the season premier of the Glades.

I earned it.

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