The ex is coming over for dinner tonight, and since I picked two good-sized eggplant, my recipe of eggplant and pork (from Cypress) is underway. On the side will be a Caprese salad since I have ripe tomatoes, basil, and some wonderful artisan mozzarella balls. The peaches will be for dessert, with granola sprinkled on top.

The backyard mowing was finished after a halfway point cooldown. I haven't trimmed yet, that can come tomorrow. And I have a lot more sapling trees to dig out in one front iris bed and around the backyard fence line. There is a shrub I will plant tomorrow, and a couple of others I'm going to offer in the buy nothing page.

One thing about having the garden is the entertainment value. We've reached the point in the summer when the tomato plants become a large hedge, and some fruits end up buried deep inside; the ex is fond of poking around and finding ripe fruit I've missed. Gleaning happens in my garden all season long, and the rule of thumb is whoever finds what I missed gets to take it home.