happy dogs

another puzzle. i found the missing piece on the floor after i gave the puzzle to my dad. i was able to get it to my dad and he got it back into the box.


happy puppy


molly laying on the a/c vent


molly


happy molly


spot thief molly

a little of everything

the pears got heavy this year




monster zucchini plant with monster zucchinis




cantelope


watermelon - they didnt get very big this year


sunflowers


just a few beans. i liked that both my foot AND puppys foot were in the frame


the bottom bean is a normal sized green bean. the upper bean is the ginormous oversized one. it makes the normal one look teeny, but its not.


beans from the oversized greenbeans


a neat fireworks puzzle


a lake house in fall puzzle

flowers and cheap tomato cages

another puzzle. this one was missing SEVEN pieces. i've never had one missing so many. but i get them at goodwill for 99 cents... so occasional missing pieces arent unusual.


cleome flower. my dad sent me the pic asking if i could help identify it, and the lovely folks in a gardening community helped me figure out what it is. its interesting looking.


the tomato plants in wimpy cages that fell over. i tried to prop them back up, but the cages were so bent.


so i pulled the old wimpy cages off and put new strong cages in. which is NOT easy to do on full grown tomato plants with lots of (cherry) tomatoes already growing.


knocked a few loose from one plant


wimpy bent to fuck tomato cage


second one fixed


more knocked loose


calendula flowers




marigolds


giant zucchini plant (with some powdery mildew)


sunflowers are coming


what the sunflower head looks like as its first coming in


garden in full swing


crazy tomatoes


more crazy tomatoes


beans


nasturtiums still in full bloom

my first (and only) blueberry!

the mamma chia drink i love is on the right. i tried making my own version on the left. my chia seeds didnt swell as big as theirs no matter how long i let them soak or how much extra juice i added (i shook it up before i took the pic). but my homemade version was still good. not quite the same but still good. i picked up apple raspberry juice and have been washing and reusing the two bottles. its too expensive to keep buying.


i made spaghetti with rotini noodles. interesting. they hold a lot more sauce and that was nice. but its a lot more noodle too. i still like ghoulash/elbow noodles best.


another puzzle


with the branch coming down, lots of other twigs and sticks fell too. this does NOT include anything off those branches, just the other random shit i picked up so the mower blade wouldnt dull.


filled up the previously empty firepit


my lone blueberry. it was good.


the butterflyweed attracted lots of fuzzy bumblebees. i like the fat fuzzy bumble bees.




the indeterminate cherry tomatoes were too much for two of the old short tomato cages i stuck on the very end. they fell over.


growing watermelon


another melon


i like the colors


green bean flowers. they're funny looking.


really funny looking. but the bees like them.


i like this day lily. bright red, wide petals.


more of the pink peach day lily that i did not buy. (i only bought red ones from a daylily society's hand dug and hand labeled sale)