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Good morning, Red! I’m in need o more coffee this morning, then I think I’ll go do some work outside before it gets too hot!

Good morning Red, Your maters are looking good! Hope you had plenty of rain as we did, 5in last weekend and 6in Wed.

I have a problem on one of my tomatos, since I have only one sucessful tomato season under my belt, I do not know what the affliction is or what to do about it, but I do have a picture:

Woo-hoo!!! Thanks to the usurper; we now have an EXTRA 800,000 illegals to help us harvest those Freeper gardens this year! Pop the champagne!

My strawberry patch has slowed down some. It never got to the “avalanche” stage like it did last year, I wore myself out picking some days but I was still able to keep it picked. Last year I couldn't. Now I'll get a steady trickle of berries until a good hard freeze stops them.

And, just in time for the strawberries to slow down, our raspberries are picking up! I picked about a cupfull yesterday. The main patch is red raspberries, but in the spot where my cherry bush died there's a black raspberry growing that's just covered in berries! Also some thicker, upright canes that I think might be blackberries but they don't have any fruit yet, and one mulberry sapling. I must have some very generous birds, because those are 3 of my favorite berries!

I got all the planting done on my land, and even managed to weed the “absentee garden” I have there. That's actually a pretty big step, because for years my shoulders have been too messed up to pull weeds, it would feel like I was ripping my own arm out of it's socket. But this year I could!! I haven't been able to talk for almost 10 months, and my stomach refuses to behave itself long enough for me to work at my old job, but the rest of me is getting stronger!