Good morning, my friends. As usual, it was a full day yesterday. The bird feeders were empty and there were flowers to water. There were a few more blueberries to pick, but first, I took a walk around to see how things were growing.
The lavender is just about bloomed out, but it is still crawling with bumblebees.
This next one is blooming thyme.
This calla lily might take over as the most watched thing in the garden. It’s putting up yet another shoot. It sure seems as if it has plans to bloom this year.
The first petals are appearing on one of the echinacea blossoms.
The hydrangeas are the stars of the garden right now. This is the variegated one on the back side of the house.
This one has turned a dark purple now. It is on the front side of the house.
Checking the greenhouse, we’re picking both green leaf and red leaf lettuce these days. Also, I planted seeds for another round of the red leaf lettuce there on the left. I can plant more if I need to.
I’m going to estimate there are more than two dozen tomatoes on our three plants. This cluster toward the back side has the largest of the tomatoes. The largest one that is more to the right than the others is larger than a tennis ball. I’m excited for these to ripen, but I suppose it’ll be a while yet. Tomatoes are more of a fall thing.
Outside the greenhouse the dahlias are blooming to beat the band.
Checking the vegetable garden, the largest of the zucchini has about half a dozen zucchini so far. They’re all too small at this point. I’m going to have to keep an eye on the one at the left. Look carefully, and you can see a very dark green zucchini near the stake, and hidden behind a leaf. And that’s how they do it. They sneak around hiding behind leaves. One day, it’ll be eating size and then the next thing you know, it will have grown to baseball bat size seemingly overnight.
This next plant is a little smaller, but I can see flowers forming there too.
Some of the sunflowers are sprouting buds. I can’t wait for these to bloom. There are about a dozen different varieties, including two different “giants.”
Recently, I read a post on Facebook claiming that ladybugs are the GOAT (greatest of all time) of the insect world. They don’t bite, sting, or eat plants. They just eat the aphids and keep our gardens healthy. So, when I saw this guy, I took his picture. Or maybe it’s a she bug. Who can tell? It seems as if it would be rude to ask to see their private parts.
So let’s just back up a few steps and see the whole garden. It’s all looking good so far. There are sunflowers lining the fence on the left, then three rows of corn, and then the green beans. At the bottom of the image are two of three zucchini plants…the ones pictured above.
Turning a little to my right, you can see more sunflowers lining the fence where the bee garden is. On the far side, are three clusters of zinnias. Starting at the lower left corner and moving toward the middle of the image are the three zucchini plants and then there are three pickling cucumbers. I’m really hoping for a good cucumber harvest this year. It took me years to find a pickle recipe that we liked. We’re out of the pickles I made last time around, which was probably back in 2023.
Okay and on my way out the gate, I stopped to snap a picture of this blooming grass. It’s the bane of my existence at this time of year, but I still think it’s pretty.
From there, I watered the flower pots. While I was watering the flowers, Sadie was imbibing in catnip at the Gracie Memorial Catnip Garden. Sadie is grateful to Gracie for all her hard work being one of the original three cats of the Three Cats Ranch.
Okay, so back inside, I sat and stitched on the quilt binding until I’d turned three corners. This might be finished today, but it will probably be tomorrow.
And in the downstairs sewing room, I did all the cutting for the next row of Jawbreaker blocks. The squares in the upper left will be turned into HST’s today. The smaller squares to their right will be sewn into 4-patches. When those pieces are made, I’ll be ready to sew five more blocks together. They should go pretty fast.
Okay and with my quilt binding nearly finished, it’s time to think about which quilt is next on the list to finish. As it turns out, it’s the Shop Hop 3.0 quilt. I’m still thinking about how to quilt this. I might have to spend some time on Pinterest looking for inspiration.
Today should be a pretty easy day. I’m going to try a new recipe, and that will go into the slow cooker this afternoon. There’s a side of coleslaw to go along with that, and so I’ll make that too. And with two jars of cherries in the refrigerator, it seems I must make an obligatory cherry cobbler. On the other hand, I might find enough blueberries to do something with those. If that happens, then all bets are off. None of that should take very long, and so I have high hopes for accomplishing my sewing goals for the day.
All right. Breakfast and slow-stitching await my attention. Time to get a move along.
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