Late June Days

Hello, friends.  Last week,  I harvested figs, cucumbers, blueberries, eggplant, green beans, zucchini and yellow squash.  I also harvested the majority of the volunteer potatoes in bags.  I left a few plants that still looked good and green, as a similar couple I pulled up didn't have much on them.  So far, we've harvested ~82 lbs. altogether, which is great, as we eat a lot of potatoes.  I harvested cabbage, and shared one with J's business partner.  Cucumbers were prepared a couple of ways for J, and I used them in some of my cleanse meals.  I made J a potato and green bean salad my Mom used to make, with our veggies, and cabbage and onions.  The pups had baths in the outdoor shower, then ran around like crazy boys for a bit, because it made them feel so good.  

I picked up parts for J's business twice during the week, and made good use of being in town, by grocery shopping, banking, and picking up a book and movie at the library, though  I ended up stopping the movie, as it was too dark for my taste.  Japanese beetles were hand picked and fed to the chickens several times, and squash bugs were squashed most every day.  I weeded rows of tomatoes, and the asian cucumbers, and mulched them.  J placed stakes at the eggplant.  I secured the plants with twine, and mulched them.  Blueberries were frozen.  Once it was dry under the bathroom sink, I did a good clean and declutter, getting rid of some things we won't use.  Some were thrown away, and some will be donated.  There were several used plumbing parts that J won't use, which was put in with our metal, to go to the salvage yard.

As I'm working on this post Sunday, we are surprisingly still running on rainwater.  J did switch over to well water on Saturday, long enough for me to do laundry loads of his uniforms and dark clothes, and run the dishwasher, then switched back to rainwater.  It was so hot and dry, the laundry dried on the line quickly.  We haven't had more than a few drops of rain, but are praying we have some good showers tonight (Sunday).  Besides our gardens, the farmers in this state are really hurting from lack of rain.  Hummingbird food and golden paste for the pups were made.  I pulled two hornworms off the tomatoes, one tiny and the other fat and sassy.  Please look aside at my dirty gardeners hands.  Wishing everyone in the States a wonderful 4th!