You got it, Bobert!

We had heavy weather to beat all heavy weather last night, then it rained again this morning. The creek rose out back--I noticed that while I was on the other side of the yard gate releasing a possum that must have had a hellish night staying out of the reach of my two dogs. They've killed several before, but as it happens, I changed the batteries in their collars last night so they had a definite boundary and they didn't cross it. I heard a yelp this morning that told me something was up so I went out to look and this guy (girl? I didn't look) was staggering along the fence as the dogs barked beside it.

No holes in the dogs, though I suspect they had physical contact when this possum played possum for a while because the possum had a couple of holes in its hide where Cinnamon bit it and because Poppy was sniffing Cinnamon's tummy, and I've seen Cinnamon lie beside her prey before.

The garden suffered in last night's rain. The corn is kind of leaning (the silks are beginning to turn brown, but I don't think the corn is ready yet, though I saw a couple of worms. What is the mineral oil trick? I think I'll spray BT one more time). The tomatoes are sodden. I pulled out several more plants that were due to come out anyway, and though the cherry tomatoes seem to be in better shape, I may take them out also. They're all kind of ratty from mites, I think. I believe summer blight makes the fruit rot in spots and I just have coarse brownish patches on the fruit skin, not a mosaic, but maybe from mites?

The squash and strawberries are happy. I'll do drench BT on the squash, even injecting it into some stems to keep the worms from killing it. It's time to begin the treatments. (I heard about this procedure on the Dirt Doctor program a few weeks ago).

SRS