Garden Bounty

   Tomatoes doing well this year. I have been getting lots of the cherry variety for a couple of weeks now, and picked the first of the beefsteak variety today.

This was today's haul. Isn't that a beauty!

Kale also doing well. I put a couple of leaves in yesterday's soup.

Lots more to come - and that's just one plant!

Easy Summer Living.

    Humongous downpour this afternoon but we had already enjoyed the day - tennis first thing then swimming with the grandkids until noon. They brought balloons and had great fun filling them with water then exploding them. They were back in the pool after lunch so it was well used today. Camera battery needs recharging so no photos again.

   Everything is now well watered and I may have to step up the grass cutting. It's been an easy summer so far. 

So Sad

   Difficult post to write today - we had a shooting in town on Sunday with two random casualties. One, a 10 year old girl, was in my granddaughter's class at school. So everyone grieving and terribly sad for the family. The other victim, a young lady who had just finished high school, was only 19. What a waste, so senseless! It is impossible to make sense of it.

Hectic Day!

   Out of the house by 8:00 a.m. and got the coffee going at the tennis club by 8:30. Worked the board until 10:15 then played a couple of sets. It was very hot and humid.

   Home by 12:30 for a swim, lunch and a nap. Cut the grass in my swimsuit, had another swim and, while still damp, made some sugar cookies to take to tennis on Friday (the grandkids will get some on Thursday first). Finally, still in my swimsuit, cleaned the pool and yet another swim to cool off. Exhausted!!

   P.S. After a day of temperatures in the 30's, the sky has got very dark and I just heard a rumble of thunder. A downpour might be in the offing!