Sunday Morning

On the Hill.

A few minutes after five O'clock on another fine Sunday morning, here on the Hill, and we haven't really given much thought to writing anything to post here. We have been busy most of the week outside, except for Friday when we got a ground soaking rain, working in the iris and other yard and garden work. It has been warmer than normal for the last month and that makes it harder for us to get all the outside work done but we do what we can.
Our pole beans, planted on Good Friday, are looking good and blooming but not putting on any beans. Maybe it has been too hot and dry. We should know if the rain helped, or not, in a few days. We dug our Irish Potatoes last week and replanted the same three short rows just before the rain. Maybe they will come up. Also planted late cucumbers and tomatoes. Our earlier tomatoes and pepper are looking better. We have tomatoes that should be getting ripe before long but the pepper hasn't started blooming yet. Our cucumbers are about normal, whatever that is, but our squash, which was supposed to be yellow crook neck but turned out to be Zucchini, are doing fairly well.
In another week or two, our Blueberries should begin ripening. As we stated before, that will keep us busy for a few weeks. Right now it looks as though they will be better than usual. All in all, it has been a good first half of 2011. Healthwise, we are gettinbg older and that brings on more complaints, mostly minor, but, again, that is normal.

You may have noticed that, up to this point, we haven't mentioned anything about politics. We know that is what dominates the news but we haven't watched as much television lately and when we do it is more likely to be some of the older programs. We could use more of those.
Thanks for your time and input. Stay tuned. - William