Sweet, Sweet Summertime!

What a lovely summer this year!  Not too sticky hot most days ... just real warm and smelling so nice with all the flowers abloom and the scent of new mown hay.  Our garden is doing the best this year, maybe because I have vowed to get out there early in the morning and do some hilling and weeding.  Daughter Angel has joined a local CSA and shares her produce with us.  They have provided the most wonderful greens this year and SO MUCH of each all kinds imaginable!  One of my favorites is tat soy, an Asian green that is great in a stir fry.  But then, all sorts of greens are great stir fried and boy have we had many this spring!  We don't plant greens as we know we will be over run if we do so we put in pole beans, cucumbers, yellow bush beans, yellow and zucchini squash and buttercup winter squash. I have some good sized green tomatoes so will get a treat tomorrow if I pick one and make fried green tomatoes!  I am the only one who eats these.  

Saw this flying contraption while on a little hike into the old Lower Village 

We are doing some camping and some visiting trips this summer between doing the garden and serving on jury duty in June and guess I have to report again in August.  Very interesting process.  Served on two cases and met some nice folks, one lady especially and we have become friends.  Also managed to get in a few paddles in the kayaks.

Spent the 4th of July in Vershire with friends and enjoyed their little parade and all the festivities.  A nice time and such a lot of folks participating in the events of the day.  Then on Sunday we went to the Reading Parade which is always a great one.  

Camped with the Rolling Wheel Sams Club twice this season.  Just this weekend, at Bald Mt. in Towshend Vt.  Nice time and great people.  Learned to make Omelets in a Bag.  There  were two big pots of boiling water where, after choosing what one wanted in their omelet and adding the eggs. sealing the bag and squishing it around well, the bag was immersed in the pot of water for about 12-14 minutes for a 2 egg omelet.  They came out so good!  Also learned a neat new card game called "Hearts Lead", a game well suited for eight players.  We had three tables of eight going and everybody was having a great time.

In Aug. we hope to have company from FL for the month.  Looking forward to this.  So blessed to have good friends and our health to enjoy this wonderful season in this best of all places.

Gr. Grandaughter sniffing the posies! 

I hope you are all having a great summer as well and remember to take time to stop and sniff the posies too!

Remember:  "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life, really never grows old "    Frank Kafka