August 14, 2021 · 1:29 pm
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FINISHED Outside Today!

The Arizona Republic

I’m sitting in the a/c under my ceiling fan glugging a bottle of water as I type this. BOY! The weather people are either nuts or lied. They SAID it would be cooler today – high only in the 80s and less humid. I’m heading up for a shower as soon as I finish this. If a weather person were here, I would bite him or her in the leg.

I decided, because of the weather report, I would grit my teeth and get a tarp on each of the six raised bed square foot planters today. Once you get started out there, you feel obligated to finish.

I didn’t find any sign of ants in the planters (thank you, EIGHT), but I DID have a bunch of them in the trash can where I stored the tarps and the bungie cords. I don’t THINK I got bitten/stung, but I hosed down the trash can and put it upside down on the ground to try to get rids of the ants and other bugs. (I may have spoken too soon. I just slapped an ANT crawling down my arm!)

It’s good that I finished this today. I can put it behind me, anticipating my next garden and dreaming of what I will plant.

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  1. susyslais's avatar susyslais
    August 14, 2021 at 3:24 pm

    I just picked the last of our cherry tomatoes and basil yesterday and made a Cherry Tomato, Basil, Artichoke, and Mozzarella Tart . . . it came out really good! Glad you’re done with all that work! 😊

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  2. susyslais's avatar susyslais
    August 14, 2021 at 5:25 pm

    I’m writing the recipe before I forget (I mixed two different recipes to make it gluten-free). If you want, I could send you the recipe when I’m done! 😺

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  3. susyslais's avatar susyslais
    August 14, 2021 at 5:44 pm

    Since I can’t send attachments here, would it be OK to send it to your store (messages)? 😺

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  5. stephiesbeadsandbaubles's avatar stephiesbeadsandbaubles
    August 14, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    It always feels good to accomplish a big project. I never trust the weather people. When they say no snow, we get a ton of snow, when they say no rain, we get rain, so I sort of do not pay attention to them anymore. Next spring we will finally get our garden in. We have been wanting to for many years. David has had two spinal surgeries the past two years, so since he will not need another one this winter,thank goodness, we are so relieved , we can finally get it started in time for a spring garden !!! I do have some potted herbs, so that makes me happy !!!

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