Finally.....Summer

 It is a quiet Sunday morning.  A friend from the Compost table brought me two cucumbers that she had from her garden so I cut up cherry tomatoes, the cucumbers and added little mozzarella balls for salad.  It will be delicious!!!!

Summer has barreled in!  Hot and sweaty with thunder that sometimes brings rain and sometimes not.  I have cut back the lambs ears and the roses ~ and have more roses to go.  The Japanese beetles have been fierce but the end of their season is approaching.  The black-eyed susans are getting ready to bloom like crazy.

This is the end of my raised bed.  You can just see the edge of Jane's oak tree on the right.  You can see literally one tenth of the black-eyed susans and the dill that is blooming at the top.  I need to go and check and see if the butterfly caterpillars have found it.

My neighbor, Rhonda, called and asked me to go with her and her granddaughters to go to  Maple View Farm and get ice cream.  Of course, I said yes!  Amy was busy working and could not go, but I did bring her back cartons of chocolate and mint chocolate chip!!!!

The view from the rocking chairs on the front porch of the ice cream shop.  The view was what was the farm with all the cows that made the milk for their ice cream.  Now it looks like they are planning a winery.

Quinn is loving her ice cream!

Happy 4th of July!!!!

Big news!  Val is back in New York!  Drew and Val went up on the train where they met the movers and the POD to move Val into his apartment with his friends in Brooklyn.  

The room of his apartment looks great ~ maybe one day we will see the apartment!  His address is:  314 Decatur Street, Apt. #2, Brooklyn, NY 11233.

From the back:  Megan, Jesse, Jim, Maren, Patrick, Thomas with David, Carolyn and Lori.

Thomas with Carolyn

And, on the Nancy front ~ she said she was feeling frustrated because she cannot drive yet and she can't lift anything.  Sounds like she is feeling better!!!!!!! And we all know the only reason the move to Brooklyn for Val went off successfully was because Nancy planned it!!! So, feel much better soon!!!!!!

So, have a beautiful rest of July!!!

Love,

Leslie