Produce and Pie!

I still picked a few beans this past week and one sad looking tomato!!

 Still being blessed with raspberries.  That is one crop that we really love and depend on.  A lot goes into the freezer for pies!

My little 4x4 strawberry bed needs redoing but found a few stragglers!  Taste so good with chocolate chips!  LOL

Used my energy Saturday to make "wonderful gardener" a raspberry pie!  Had not done that for quite awhile.  He helps me so much for which I am thankful.

This rose atari scented geranium has done well out on the deck.  I had two scented geraniums at the beginning of summer.  I think the other one was a snowflake scented geranium.  They both were pretty sad looking and I through the snowflake one out.  This one really came back so maybe I should have kept both!!  Oh, well!!!

What a change!!

What a change in the weather we have had!  It feels like fall now and I got out a few fall decorations.  Soon it will be time to get the Christmas ones out!!!  Suppose to get back in the 80's the middle of the week.  Not too bad but I prefer 75 degree weather.  I don't always get what I want!!

What a surprise that the lettuce survived that heat!  Since I have had the Lyme my appetite has changed at times.  Right now lettuce does not sound appetizing!  Wouldn't you know it!

This big picking of beans came from the two pots in the driveway that I planted after harvesting the onions.  I was concerned I would not have enough beans in the freezer for the two of us and Coco but think I have plenty now with this and some other ones I picked.

And raspberries!  I wonder how much longer and they will say "I quit!"  I am not complaining though.

Does anyone remember this material I posted quite awhile ago?  I finally got it out and started on the quilt.  Not much done yet and it will take me awhile but if I sew a seam every now and then I will get it done!  Slow and steady wins the race!

TOO HOT!!!!

I think this says it all for this senior citizen!  I am becoming ungrateful for my produce because it is so hot that I don't want to go out to pick it!!!  Bad senior citizen!!!

Never the less we are blessed!  This basket looks like last week's picture but this week's is from my garden!!!!  Last week's was from a friend's garden!

And how about this!  A few strawberries to enjoy!

Still harvesting beans from different areas.  Coco is happy about that.  One of her favorite veggies!  Gotta grow a garden for my dog!

Pulled out the other box of carrots on the deck.  Another of Coco's 

favorite veggies!  I don't do so well growing carrots.  Thinking about using that space for something else!

My dwarf peach tree has peach rot and something else this year.  So I was happy to find a couple that were delicious.  Hoping for a couple more!  We will have to do a better job of spraying copper fungicide and horticultural oil.  Just learning how to care for our trees!

It rained a lot of the day on Saturday so I took that opportunity to make up a few note cards.

A closer view of three of them.  It says "a little note on the bottom".

Two more!

And two more!  The end!  Have a good week!

We have been still enjoying raspberries!

Along with some other veggies!

Even had a few small strawberries!  Guess I need to replace my plants next spring!

We sure do enjoy fresh coleslaw!  Hoping to harvest another couple of these.

I was gifted a half bushel of tomatoes.  Thought some of them looked so pretty in the basket that I just had to take a picture!

Canned up 14 quarts of tomato juice.  Here are a few of them.

Coco was jumping the little picket fence and eating my carrots so had to pull them out of there and took the picket fence down.  She is now checking to make sure I got them all and wondering how she can get over to the next box to pull them out!

We had a little visitor.  Sophia came to stay overnight while her mommy went away.

We went to a family reunion this past week-end.  Then we stopped to have lunch with my brother and sister on the way home.  Guess I did too much partying as I am wiped out tonight.  See you next week!!

Is it fall time??

Does it seem like we are having fall nights to anyone else?  Seems like I have not gotten an abundance of any one thing this summer.

Some of this and some of that!

The raspberries are producing more and more again.

Ugh and double Ugh!  The squash bugs arrived!

After the onions I decided to plant this pot with cucumbers in the driveway.  They look good here but are starting to yellow.  Looking doubtful.......

The other two pots that had onions I planted to beans.  They do look hopeful..........

At first glance I thought more bugs!!  Nope!  These are dill seeds that I am saving for next year.  Not that I will probably need them.  They usually reseed all over by themselves!!

I am not growing this one but she does look healthy!!  Coco loves to clean out whatever is left in the peanut butter bottle!

My tomatoes are starting to ripen!  Except for the Brandywine they are not very large.  Why is that???

Picked a few cucumbers.  The one in the middle got away on me!  Some are fat and squatty this year!

A few beans are scraggling in!

Starting to pick a few fall raspberries.  I am liking that!!

How dare this bunny eat my lettuce like that!  This is the fourth one we have chased out of the yard.  Now this afternoon I saw another one in our yard.  I wonder how many more!  Hoping the same one is not getting back in but that there must be a nest under our deck! My friend and I were just saying we had never saw a bunny eating our lettuce and that must be a myth when I saw this one enjoying herself in my patch!!! So the fact that bunnies like lettuce is not a myth!  

I just recently bought these three adorable little watering can solar lights.  They each turn different colors.  Of course that is Coco in the corner hoping to see a bunny in the garden!

Here is a close up of one.  I just love them!!

Week's Harvest, Sheep & Towels

I am harvesting a variety of things.  A little of this and a little of that!

My big blueberry harvest!  I am giving up growing blueberries and giving Mike my two bushes.  Maybe he will have better luck than I have had!

A yellow summer squash and a stripe zucchini.  This is my first stripe zucchini ever.  I am wondering why when all the rest are plain green!

Dug up another cabbage.  They sure do make delicious cole slaw!

It seems that there are more hibiscus flowers this year than last.  Gorgeous!

Gracie decided to give my sheep a bath.  Funny!  I grew up on a farm with sheep and we never gave our sheep a bath!!!!!

I decided even with fatigue I should sew a seam now and then and satisfy my creativity.  Here are a couple towels to button over the stove handle.  I will not be making any more because my sewing machine cannot handle the thickness.