I came back from Sparta and loaded up the truck with lots of garbage which we dumped off at the dumpsters on the parkway before heading into Galax for some shopping and then to the post office to mail the wraps/swaddlers for the grand sons which were left behind when the family left in the early morning hours of Saturday. We did do a Wal-Mart shop for some items which we had run out of and then gassed up at 1.84 which is the same price here in N.C. It's usually 10-15 cents a gallon cheaper there than here in N.C. It sure was a hot day there as well with temps in the lower 90's, yikes and the humidity had creeped back into the area here as well. The a/c has been on non stop for several days as the morning temps have stayed around the 70 mark, but it very unusual for so much humidity so early in the day.
Well I harvested some beet greens, kale and Swiss chard for the salad bowl as well as some radishes which grew to be larger than golf ball size and thus were too woody to eat but for a few smaller ones. I'll resow some seeds later today once the ground dries. We got another rain shower in the evening after we got back from a golf cart ride to the top during evening hours. We spoke with a few folks on top before heading back down to call it a day outside. I did harvest another cucumber and a zucchini.
The deer came in over night and ate down our black eyed Susan which were starting to bloom and then they ate down the cone flowers and part of the wild flowers that border the backwoods fence. So far they have stayed away from the hydrangeas which is quite surprising and this year is the first time they have actually had purple blooms, LATER
