Now I know how kids feel the first week of school…

Now I know how kids feel the first week of school… 

And I kind of remember the feeling.. You know when it is still summer like and you are in a hot school room trying to listen to the teacher.. Whose words start to blend in to the Charie Brown  blah blah blah….   And you are looking out the window, and wishing you were out there.. It is great to be out there these days.. 

That is how it is these days… and I am trying to enjoy every minute of it. Because the weather man is telling us, it is going to get hot again by this weekend.. back to the 100 to 102 weather.. and NO RAIN… 

While today was in the low 80’s .. it seem cooler as the wind was blowing.. Not really bad, but enough for a nice breeze to be enjoyed while working in the yard. 

It is getting close to fold in the garden. I did pull up the onions on one side. The other side has a coupe zucchini plants that are alive and well. And couple of beans stalk hanging in there.  The fava beans are kind of puny and might just use the seeds for the plants of next year.

The bad news of all of this heat is …the blueberries, raspberry took a beating as well as the strawberries.. They were all watered daily.. at about 3am. So the water would stay with them… and go in the ground and not dry up. But didn’t help.. all the berries are small.  And the WEEDS of course did fantastic.  Being watered daily and too hot to go out and pull them out..  So a lot of them are a foot or more.

We are thinking seriously of changing our garden once again… going back to raised gardens.. maybe black papering the weeds out… 

Oh, well, it is ok and it is just so great to feel productive and enjoy the sounds of the yard.. Only thing was this afternoon, we got run off of the deck by bees… looking for water I am guess.  Along with some yellow jackets.. Killed about 6 of the yellow jackets and 20 came to their funeral..

The King went to the store and bought a salt gun…no not an assault gun… a  SALT gun… you shoot salt from it..So he sat on the deck this evening shooting yellow jackets. Guess it is good practice with hunting season coming up in 2 months.. and he was having fun.

 

Ah, summer time and the living is easy…