Pinging the list.
For your amusement today:
How to make a clarinet out of a carrot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BISrGwN-yH4&feature=youtu.be
See to believe.
Warming up in Western Colorado! Tomatoes are on the vine, along with cukes and quite a few chile peppers have been picked so far (jalapenos and New Mexico green). I was concerned container gardening would fail me, so far it has not!
Greetings from Massachusetts! We had a beautiful day here, with low humidity, which was much appreciated. I envy you your bountiful crop of green beans, and will show you why in a few minutes!
Sorry about your encounter with the Dept of Labor earlier today.
AFTR sent me some links from other threads:
How to make a carrot clarinet:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3178676/posts
EPA RUNNING WILD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177705/posts
Black Agnes sent me this one about food companies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3178138/posts
This is what he did a couple of days ago to our purple velour beans: 
He also ate all of the blossoms from two containers of petunias, and did some damage to the greens on our radishes! The above container has now been moved from the patio out front, onto the railing of our deck out back.
Central Konnecticut:
* Garlic is up and drying already.
* Strawberries are done, but raspberries are cranking.
* Summer squash and cukes coming off now, tomatoes a week or so away.
* Snap peas and pole beans two weeks away.
* Potatoes, eggplant, and peppers three weeks away.
* Asparagus - two years (just planted crowns in May).
Picked the first ripe peaches today. Sure smell good. I wish we had a dozen or more trees.
Checking in!
I talked about making a black raspberry pie using the raspberries in the back yard, and I made sure dad heard me talk. He swears he didn’t spray anything in the back yard, and he didn’t change his tune when I said the pie would be for Mom’s birthday party, so I think those berries are safe. They are now on the list of “things dad will be eating too”. I’ve picked 2.5 quarts from a tiny 3x5 patch. And there are more waiting to ripen!
Still gathering supplies to build a camper on the back of my truck. I saw a slide-in that I could afford, but when I clicked on the pictures it was nothing but a wooden box. No bed, no toilet, not even a window. Just a bare, empty, uninsulated box. I can build better than that. I’ll have to, if this winter is anything like the last one!
I tried making the yarrow bug repelent, but I think I did it wrong, because it looked and smelled like water, and the bugs ignored it. On the other hand, I have verified that I can distill water using my pressure canner and a hose. That might be usefull someday.
Peas are starting to dry down, and I have little green tomatoes on one of my tomato plants! The other 7 tomato plants are a bit behind, this one was the only one out of the first planting that made it, so it’s had a good 8-week head start on the others.
I stopped at a garage sale and got 2 oil lamps (the “genie in a lamp” kind, not the glass chimney kind), some incense burners (seller threw them in with the lamps, since it was a matching set), and about a mile of fishing line, all for $2. The seller had a crate load of foothold traps, and I seriously thought about getting some, but my shoulder won’t let me set the traps I’ve got. Foothold traps are tricky, too. If done wrong, you end up with a 3-footed critter running loose. I can’t do that to an animal, I may kill and eat them but I won’t torture them.
If the pie recipe turns out, I’ll post it later. I couldn’t find the exact recipe I wanted, so I sort of meshed 3 different recipes together.
My flour mill arrived this week, but I haven’t had a chance to test it yet. I’m looking forward to finding out what my home-grown cornmeal tastes like :)