Dorothy, are you still registered to vote in Washington? Please be sure that is taken care of in time! Good news about the trip to Beaver; if you'd taken all of your pills you might have been able to relax more. Something to remember when planning future trips.

I don't get in much more than about 20 minutes in the garden here still, though it is finally cooling, so that should change. We had a nice rain before dawn on Monday, making the soil more workable. It has been too hot to garden here and Dorothy is putting on snow tires this week. One of these days I'll manage to live in a northern area again. I do miss the more pronounced seasons and nicer (less hot) summers.