One job leads to another around here, so as I dug the garlic bed I filled a large bucket with the weeds. While walking that bucket through the side gate back to the compost I decided I needed to mow at least along that side between the garage and the fence so it would be easier to push open the gate and walk and also look nice from the street. With the heat I stopped a couple of times for a cooldown with iced tea (something I didn't grow up with but can't live without now). I've finished digging out the garlic, moved a pile of bricks and a bird bath, and dug about half of the garden area for the cucumbers. I also harvested two large handfuls of the oregano stems and have them hanging to dry in the kitchen.

I could stand to thin out several areas of the garden of irises, lilies, fall aster, oregano and basil and perhaps offer them on the free page (though everyone else who is a gardener may be having the same thought about now!)

In what I hope is the last wasp episode, for several days now no more tiny nest starts on the porch, but as I was looping the hose on the hose rack at the corner of the house I saw a wasp duck under the rack - and looked to see them building a nest right above the faucet handle under there. As it happens that handle is in the open position because the water to that stand comes from a faucet and hose on the other side of the front porch. But still. I turned the water back on and blasted the nest.

Charmion, that beer on the porch with the birds sounds like a nice afternoon! I'm about 20 pounds more than you, and about 5'7"; lose any more and I am really bony.

Now processing eBay photos. I set up several items to list today and changed out the background color in my photo cube. Using the new Nikon is wonderful for this work.