Finally flowers

Alright! It's July 5th and 2/3rd's of my annuals are planted in the flower bed! This is how the flower bed should look on June 5th, not July. These poor flowers have literally been sitting in their flats waiting to be planted for a month. Seems like every time I had time to plant it rained. Every time it was sunny I had to work. Or mow the yard. With about 4 hours of weekly mowing to do, the yard gets priority over the flower beds. Fingers crossed that a little Miracle Grow will help the poor flowers out. And in case you noticed, the bare spot in between the marigolds and the hostas is there for a purpose. That is the dog path. I learned many years ago to give up on planting flowers in that spot because the dog cuts the corner every day when it does foot patrol around the house. Sometimes its much easier to go with the flow rather than fighting the current.

Mike traveled to Marietta yesterday to pick up the last of the plants: late broccoli. So now we have flats sitting on the wagon. Again. Not so many as before though. He also brought home some goodies from his parents' farm for us to eat. Our first home grown cucumbers and sweet corn sitting in our refrigerator waiting to be eaten. Oh they look so good! Thanks Mike's Mom and Dad!

Tonight I took the dogs for a short walk to take a look-see at the garden and to see if any birds needed to be rescued from under the blueberry netting. The melons are looking great. The peppers look a tiny bit stressed from the transplanting followed by hot temperatures and no rain. The sweet corn looks fantabulous. In one week it has gone from knee high to mid-thigh high. Molly had a grand ol' time running back and forth between the rows in spite of how hot it was. The corn is tall enough that I can barely see the top of her head.

And in a rare moment of stillness, I captured this shot of her standing next to the outside row of corn. You can see her bottom half is all wet from one of her many trips into the creek to cool off.

The word for the rest of the week is going to be hot! Temps in the 90's all week. The boys better drink plenty of water while they are out working in the fields this week. I on the other hand have some very fun things planned for this week. More on that later.