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Such a fan-TASTIC day! I got in a whole 45 minutes of uninterrupted weeding WITHOUT the puppies helping! Beau and I got the Sugar Pie Pumpkins planted in the (formerly flooded!) lower garden, as well as two 'Wisconsin Pride' Muskmelon plants. As an ADDED BONUS, I got the monster-sized Sunflowers planted in our Bird Food Plot and then Mr. Wonderful tilled up a section for me to plant all of the Gladiolus corms I bought in an unsupervised trip to Farm & Fleet, and THEN it rained like a sonofagun this afternoon for a good 30 minutes after everything was in the ground. I'm pretty sure that this has been the Best. Day. Ever. in this wet, rainy, cool and UGLY gardening season so far! Bear Chops on the grill, steamed Broccoli from the garden, a garden salad and that yummy Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole for supper. I SO needed a day like today. Faith in Humanity? Restored!

Nothing better than a great day in the garden followed by a great meal. I've never tasted bear. But I am big on protein. As I have gotten more active since April, I notice I am wanting more protein and fresh foods and less carbs. We have so much fresh lettuce. Besides salads, I like to make a plate of big leaves, shmear some tomato dressing on them and fold them up in little packets. Great finger food. Crunchy and delicious. you still have plenty of time for things to grow and mature. We are way ahead here (west Michigan), tomato plants most of them 3 feet tall.

Took this picture yesterday, my tiny papaws. We have 5 trees about 10 years old now and I had almost given up on getting any fruit. This spring 2 of them flowered for the first time, 20 blossoms which I carefully cross pollinated with a paintbrush just to make sure. The mature fruit (September) will be Idaho potato sized.