Friday, July 21, 2017

Summer has turned hot

Time marches on, and here it is - the HOT season.  The mercury hasn't fallen below 70 for almost a week.  Daytime temperatures are in the high 90's.  Thankfully, we had a lot of rain earlier in July, so the plants aren't baked dry yet.  But we'll have to start watering our sad little garden soon.  We are getting tomatoes & cucumbers (and eggs, of course), the zucchini and squash are growing.  But the weeds have taken control.  Josh took the weed wacker to the garden, trying to at least get some illusion of control.

Last year, I put newspaper and wood chips around each plant.  That worked fairly well.  This year we didn't have a large pile of wood chips, so I just used newspaper.  That did NOT work.  The weeds grew right through.  Oh well, at least the plants we want are growing too.

Joshua & I took grandchild Ariel back to Ellijay, GA.  We visited for a week & returned home this past Monday (7/17).  We had doctors appointments on Wednesday & VA Dental yesterday.  Today, I can finally get back to work on the Hobbit House.

We went to a few interesting place while in Georgia.  Here's so pictures of Amicolola Falls.







    
And we visited an interesting farm store.




Lastly, I'd like to send a big Thank You to the Poplar Bluff VAMC.  The Dental Clinic staff helped me out yesterday & arranged for all my dental needs to be resolved in 1 day!  Amazing!  Thank you so much!

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