last minute concert fun, and some grrrrrs

So, Cathy called me around 5:30 asking if I wanted to go to a Kelly Cl*rkston concert tonight. I said sure. It was pretty fun. It was pretty cold, and it even rained on us a bit, but there was an awesome rainbow, one of the brightest, fullest ones I've ever seen!(my silly camera can't pick it up very well) It was a fun evening, and I took the space blanket from my emergency car kit which kept me dryer and warmer then I would've been.

It has been rainy and cool for most of the week. Its made watering very easy! My letuce is loving it and so are the peas. They have reached the top of the 4' chicken wire and are starting to really produce. I get a handfull of strawberries most mornings. BUT something keeps using that patch as a path and squishing strawberries. I put some wire edging around it and tucked the netting around pretty good, and it looks like the strawberry plants that got squished are perking back up.- while I was putting this up a robin flew down and got stuck. Much squaking insured but before I could get over there Nanguo appeared and I yelled at her. She usually won't get near me but ran and grabbed the bird anyways, but then got caught in the net and freaked out because I guess she thought I had grabbed her so she took off. The bird had squaked loudly so I thought it was dead, but then it flapped around and got free and flew off. Wow a wild america moment in my backyard, only with a cat and a robin rather then a mountain lion and eagle or something similarly wild.

Yesterday I went out and something messed up the mulch around the eggplants and broke off and squished a lot of onions. OH I AM SO MAD! I found some pieces of wiring that make me now think that maybe someone was doing something with the power/phone/or cable lines and put a latter right there. I noticed other marks in the pole bean bed near there, with only a couple of dill plants slightly squashed. I know I lost at least this onion, and I'll see how many others recover. GRRRR. (the pictures don't really show it, but believe me they are broken and squashed)

A couple of days ago I came home from work and there were huge paw prints all over the carrot bed. Its one thing to walk on there mister stray dog, its another to dance all over it! At least two of my bigger ones were broken clean off, and I don't know if the seeds will come up now. Double GRRRRRR

One of the brocoli plants has been pushed over, but seems to still be alive...

I've finished mulching most of the vegetable garden but still have soooo much work to do! Finish transplanting red things and cosmos is the next chore, and finishing putting in the plants mom gave me after that. Then its working on turning over the dirt around the bushes and berries I planted around the fire pit and along the right side fence. after that work on cleaning up the fire pit area, and then if there is any time left its enlarging the window gardens. I think I started too many new projects this year!