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First!!!???

[JustaDumbBlonde]

By golly, you are! That is a first! See, if I wait until you are awake, good things happen! :)

[tubebender]

Benderville is suffering under a canopy of dismal overcast skies but it makes for great photos. First up is our Raspberry patch which yielded 5 gallons plus in the first picking and should produce a great fall crop…

We took the row covers off the Pumpkins and winter Squash…

Potatoes have a ways to go but I did a C Section on a few hills of Red Gold and Yukon Gold…

The battle lines have been drawn and weapons gathered…

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Some random shots from my flowers:

This is a shot of my "surprise" bed ... so named because you never know what is going to come up or bloom. The bed is full of all kinds of bulbs. There were crocus, paperwhites and iris earlier in the Spring. The mums have been planted there for 4 years now (they were leftovers from my fall yard arrangement) and they bloom almost continually during the year. The lilies that are there now I planted 2-1/2 years ago and had totally forgotten about. They surprised me beginning 2 weeks ago.