GARDEN JUNGLE

first ill tell you about the pictures...the hanging tomato plant provided us with our first ripe tomatoes of the season and i must say they were mmmmm good...now we are anxiously waiting fo more to ripen...althou we have been eating plenty of zucchini--beets greens--lettuse--swiss chard--green peppers--

BUT

the squash have begun to take over the garden and spreading out to who knows where..up the fence..and beyond as there is still lots of time for them to grow and really spread...the other plants are what i thought was cucumbers (that i bought at our local BOCES sale)..we have been waiting for cucumbers and nothing but this morning i decided that the plants were not cucumbers but either watermelon or cantaloup now only time will tell what the plants produce...hope they will be good..who knows it might not be either right now it is only a good guess...

yesterday we attended to annual senior [icnic and after we wer invited to a friends pool for a refreshing dip...must say it sure felt good...and today is suppose to get hotter ugh....on the news this morning the weather man was showing clips of last winter snow and how people were complaining about wanting it to be 90..now the show is on the other foot complaining about wanting it cooler ..go figure...

JULY 4TH

what a good weather long weekend we had to enjoy on lake ontario...on sat night we had a big old t/storm blow thru and lar and lisa were up gathering stuff so it would't blow aaway...but that was the only inclement weather we had whiel we were there...it was a typical weekend on the lake...every cottage had people coming and going all weekend as much as lisa and andy did...we met several of their friends one of which wants us to adopt her ahhahha...

there was activity going on all weekend...we also picked up shasta so she could come out and enjoy some family fun on the lake...there was fishing and shasta caught to biggest not sure who caught the most but most of them we little...

returned home on monday and we left around 10am as we wanted to miss the later afternoon traffic and i think we did...81 was busy but i've got to believe that by afternoon it got much more so...

we are now eating lettuce--zucchini and onions from the garden..tomatoes have been set and we have several little on the plants aliong with green peppers..the topsy turvy planted on the back porch has had tomatoes on it for some time and i did noticed today that they are beginning to blush so in a week or 2 we ought to be able to pick some of them...now that is the best part of a garden being able to eat fresh veggies -- it sure can't get any fresher...

anyway beck to the home front and back to trying to get chores/jobs/projects caught up and done...

the pictures are of shasta and mellissa---a hike lar and i did in a state park it is a famous kennel that raised pointers..(ehlew)--apparently according to lar it is very famous and the pups were expensive--the othere is of a tree that had been cut off close to the ground and i thought it kinda looked like a 4 leaf clover..anyway i liked it...