My garden

The garden is growing like crazy right now. We've got plenty of squash and zucchini. Also we've got:



Cucumber plants growing nicely. I probably will pick the first cuke today.





Watermelon. I only planted one plant, just to see how it would do in the raised bed.





Broccoli! We've got lots of it, which is great since we are big broccoli eaters around here.

double nephews

At a family gathering recently, our great-nephew and nephew were together for the first time. They are 7 months apart in age, but they managed to play together a bit, and watch another nephew outside who was shooting fireworks.

Recent guests

We've had some guests to our home lately. First off is this lovely lady:







It's not unusual for us to have deer, but they're not normally this close to the house.


Our next visitors were a couple of these:




They just appeared one day, taking a dust bath in the hole my dogs dug in the backyard when they were mole hunting. We've got an adult red tail hawk that hangs out in the lower front yard and feasts on the crawdads in their little mud castles, so we're wondering if these are a couple of baby red tail hawks. Whatever they are, they're adorable. They've made 2 appearances so far.