Now that’s one of my happy places! I try really hard to get a beach trip in every year. When I go, I like to just lounge around, and do a whole lot of nothing! Make sand castles or sand sculptures, watch the birds, watch the water move in and out, look for dolphins, look for shells, and get wet! It’s therapeutic for me.
I keep my large tools out back all summer—shovel, spade, step-on edge cutter, electric edge trimmer, rakes, industrial broom, hedge trimmer, weed puller, etc. Now I will have a bigger space under the stairs where I can lock all that stuff away—including my battery-operated lawn mower!—until the freezing weather returns, and not have to haul them around from an interior closet in the front of the house.
Well, it's 9:50 AM and the contractor hasn't called or texted yet. Had I slept in, he would have been here at 6:30 to beat the heat.
(Not my gardens. Our deer would eat it all. But it's nice to dream...)
Final break up? "Evers Never Ever getting back together!" to paraphrase Ms. Swift!
HOT and WET here in the Middle of Misery this past week. Ugh.
The electric fence around my tomato patch has kept the freeloading groundhog at bay so far. My Australian Shepherd learned about it too. I was picking cukes and heard a blood-curdling yip from across the garden. Looked up to see her suspended about three feet in the air after she jumped from getting shocked. It was one of those funny but not funny deals.
The heat has been unkind to my new rhubarb plants. Several of them have completely folded up, as in no signs of life. Hopefully they’ve just gone dormant and will put out some new growth this fall. We’ll see.
Everything else is flourishing. I’m having to pick cukes every day to keep up with them. Mrs. Augie has made 20-ish quarts of lacto-fermented dill pickles since the cukes started producing.
Yesterday I got the boat out for the first time this summer. Went fishing on the Osage River. Brought home one nice blue cat and a ~4’ shortnose gar. Fish tacos for supper tonight at my house. ;-)