Rainy Days and Mondays....

The little Bosc Pear tree we planted last year does not mind at all.

The cherry blossoms are coating every surface...

The hostas are also benefiting from the rainfall...

There are blooms in every corner now, including the azaleas...

Sometimes, you need to make your own sunshine...


Hope you are enjoying whatever nature is dishing out near you.

It's Raining on My Birthday

Could I get a better gift than free water for my little garden?
I don't think so. Although a lap top would be nice too.lol
Read more about the celebration of International KateinNJ Day
here. My peas are up enough, that I can see them from my kitchen window.
It just doesn't get any better than that! At least not this early in our season.
I will get new photos up soon. For those of you who do not "know" me,
my Grandmother passed away recently, and the services will be this Saturday.
Her house is full of 60+ years of "stuff" to be cleaned out. I'm doing my best to help
my sister clean it. Life will go on,as it always does eventually, but for now I'm feeling
out of sorts. If you are lucky enough to live where it is raining, I hope you'll take some time
to go outside and enjoy it for just a bit today.If it is not raining where you are get outside and
just do your best to enjoy it..blue skies and all. For me. ;-)

Looks like we're in for some rain...

It's looking like rain here this morning, although
I can here the bugs and birds calling out to one another.
Maybe later the free water will fall. Our garden is looking terribly
worn and abused about now, but still producing food.
I need to get out and harvest before the rain comes.
I need to can up what I am harvesting.
I need another cup of coffee to make it all happen.

Weeding,wildlife and food

Is there more to gardening than that?
Weeding found a few more butternut squash babies growing in other places in the garden.They are my favorite squash.
We had a lovely break in all the heat, and then free water fell from
the sky to moisten the garden.And it kept falling for two days....sometimes quite heavily.
I hope free water falls where you need it too.

Thursday musings

We picked a basket full of peas today.
Beautiful snow peas. It was hard not to eat them
all before we got inside, but we did it.
It has stopped raining, but is still very wet here.
Princess and I checked the herbs we planted
in pots the other day and the sweet potato we
put into another planter. We had also replaced the
purple cone flower in her butterfly garden that the Ground Hog
had eaten the top off of.I have not seen him back, but the replacement
plant was still there, so I'm guessing he found another place to dine,
or my neighbor captured him. There are several gardeners who will
try all season to catch these little buggers in our neighborhood.
The call to bring out the have a heart traps has already spread,
so I am sure we are all prepared.The birds, meanwhile have been having a lovely time
"smelling the flowers"