Wow. to expand on my last post summer has arrived with a 20 degree jump in temperature overnight. We've gone from mid 70's (or lower!) to mid 90's. It is HOT! The garden is loving it - the tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini have visibly grown over the last 2 days and I'm sure we will see even more growth in the rest of the garden. Jen just planted more seeds yesterday: bush beans, summer squash, spaghetti squash and a crazy squash (Just what IS a crazy squash?!?). Hopefully these will all come up soon.
The chicken run door is finally built - I borrowed a jigsaw and a speed square from the tool library and even made the awesome mitered corners on the door frame and made braces with other scrap wood so it would stay square then covered it with mesh and cross brace. All that we need now is to buy the hinges. Funny thing about building is that when something is only a 1/4" off of square (say a doorjam) it makes a huge difference in building a door. I cut our door a 1/2" narrower than the doorjam but since it didn't entirely work apparently it would have been better if there was a 1" difference width wise. Who knew it made such a difference?!? oh well, the door still works and is nice and square - it just looks odd without a square door jam. I think I put enough braces in that it won't warp with the sun too. Once the door is installed the run will be complete!!!
Now that most of the major projects are done I'm already off to thinking about more projects: widen the tomato bed for next year? plant a wisteria vine on the fence? clean out the basement and make space to hang the potatoes, onions and garlic I hope to have this fall? dig out new flower beds along the front walk and fill with bulbs, daylilies, crocosmia and peonies? Plant more blueberries and maybe an apple tree?
Not sure what all of that we will do, I've got the wisteria vine in a bucket of water to see if it will root, planning on cleaning out the basement this next week and I will be keeping my eyes open for blueberries on sale. We've been talking about getting some baby ducks when they are available at the feed store so we'll have to find a place to put their pool. We found several smaller varieties we liked online but we'll probably buy whatever we can get locally so we don't have to order them online. I don't like the idea of ordering animals through the mail - it just seems cruel especially in our hot weather right now.
We will have to update with some new pictures tomorrow. Oh - and in some other good news the hot weather is killing the aphids infecting the plum tree, hopefully it will recover soon.
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