Left handed Day

Left Hander's certainly earned the right to have a day dedicated to them. August 13th is that day. Take a minute to appreciate your left handed friend (me). Remember today and every day: "Lefties have rights!"  

I could swear that posted something earlier this month, but it's not showing up anywhere so must have imagined it! 

It's been nice here, especially at night but even during the day out on the porches.  There has been rain off and on which the garden seems to love!  Onions are all picked and hanging up nicely. Got some extras from Harry Joe and from Butch (I helped him dig his, but they aren't Luci's faves, so I got most of them).  Everything else is doing much better since we put up the fences via plastic netting.  Even with that, of course Butch;s garden is way further along than mine. Since my cabbage was being eaten, it's just now looking like it might form heads. Butch gave me one of his small ones and I made Cole Slaw. Used onions, radishes, the only carrot I have pulled up yet, and one banana pepper - all from my garden. 

Cole Slaw

Radish, carrot, pepper

Been regularly getting lettuce and just few radishes - my own fault for not thinning them appropriately.  Have also had some swiss chard, yellow squash, and wax beans to eat out of our garden. Found lots of small, wild black raspberries this year and made a dessert, some jam, and have some frozen that I will make a mixed berry jelly with one of these days. They are about done, but the wild blackberries are just starting to turn purple.

First of the wild blackberries

Swiss Chard

Yellow Wax Beans

Before heater

Heater cover/bookcase

Raspberry Jam

 There is an ugly heater in the kitchen that has annoyed me for years. I put a small table in front of it which gave me a little more room to put things and sort of covered it up. But have been thinking of covering it up for years. After all we don't use any heat - especially in the summer. So finally I went and bought 2 pieces of wood, one 1 foot wide and one 6 inches wide, and built a bookcase around it. The sides and top are from the 1 ft wide board, and the other shelves from the 6 inch wide board. After much nailing and re-nailing and borrowing a level from my neighbor, it's done. Won't show you the close up as it's pretty crude, but does the trick and with stuff on it, you really can't tell much difference. Some day maybe I will paint it and it will look even better. Its' removable, so it heat is needed, it can be moved elsewhere.

On the flower front, it is larkspur month and there are still many of those around! I plan to drop more seeds next year. Actually some must have blown from the side garden over to the butterfly bush (or birds dropped them, as I have many growing there unexpectedly, though you  can't see them very well in this picture. The butterfly bush just started to bloom this week. The magnolias have been blooming a few at a time all month. The orange daylilies are just about done, but the yellow ones are looking good.   The hostas are just starting to bloom and I have 2 different varieties.  The first of the Rose of Sharon trees are blooming, just as the last of the Queen of Prairie blooms are ending. Still lots of the same weeds also still in bloom. That's about it for today.

Butterfly Bush

Magnolia Bloom

Queen of the Prairie

Daylilies

Rose of Sharon