Dry, dry, dry here on the Blues Ridge... Less than an inch of rain over the last 30 days... Spend every waking hour running the oscillatours... Wore out one of our older Gillmore's (stripped gears) and the P-Vine called them complaining about them not making parts for it so Gillmore is sending us a new (and improved)one... Actually, I liked the older ones better... The new ones are confusing... Bought a $45 Green Thumb and it doesn't oscillate right out of the box... We'll take it back and hold out for used Gillmores on ebay, thank you...

We've been trappin' the heck out of rat-coons of late... 4 in the last week alone... It's time consuming relocating them to an area where they aren't going to become someone else's pests... We take them 15 miles away into the George Washington Nation Forest where there are mountain streams...

We are loving our deer fence... We are in the process of buiding gates to replace the makeshift nails that we have to attach the fence to every time we go out or come in which has become real old...

Veggie garden is finally coming in... Maybe our first ripe tomato today??? Peppers, eggplant, cukes, squash plentyfull...

Hostas in the first garden we enclosed are blooming inspite of being eaten down before the deer were evicted...

All in all, gardening is almost fun again...

Now if it would only rain...

B~