Beans from the garden, yellow beets, bunch of kale, carrots, onions, garlic. Rice.

Ron is working on the lawn.

I was tossing balls to Jett this morning and inadvertently whacked him pretty hard.

Reassuring email about the lilac.

Jett is still not eating.

Made a zucchini pie with the two zukes from the garden.

After anchoring the empty pie shell with pinto beans from the Pantry, cooked the beans.

Also made matzo ball soup from a package. Hoped to flavor up Jett’s food with the broth but he still won’t eat.

The heirloom Brandywine tomato looks like it’s ripened. A big garden tomato fell off so I rescued it, hoping it’ll continue ripening inside.

Ron did laundry, we changed the sheets. Put on the new blanket.

More work on the inventory app. Transitioning to SQLExpress and so far, it’s handled everything very well.

Machine seemed to be running out of RAM yesterday evening, so I shut it down and restarted it this morning.

We got our four new plants in the ground before a deluge this afternoon. We had enough soil from prior digging to fill in the lilac. Ron did a great job excavating and hauling.

Our timing was good: it started sprinkling just as we were putting away tools.

After mulling over placement for days, I’m pleased with how everything looks. The lilac will get plenty of sun and I hope the silene regias and the winterberry will do okay in their part shade.

I also weeded and cleaned up the ferns. They were a mess, knocked over from who knows what, an animal or maybe the last heavy rain. Garden looks 100% better.

We skipped Five Pound Horse at First Friday in North Adams last evening, but turns out, after watching a couple of videos, Ron isn’t crazy about their music, so just as well.

We steamed corn for lunch. I sauteed leftover chopped vegetables and an egg/breadcrumb mixture left from prepping eggplant for a casserole. All very filling. Trying to unload odds and ends from the frig.

Ron took Jett for a long walk up the hill. He kept Jett busy while I worked on the Inventory app. Keeping the functionality the same, doing cleanup. Changed “products” to “relief items” in the code and in SQL.

Met with Andi yesterday. Got the code on the new machine and a successful database connection.

Up at 4 am yesterday, took a nap in the afternoon but was pretty groggy afterwards. Slept better last night.

I worked most of the day on the Remedy project while Ron kept Jett entertained.

We enjoyed listening to the Berkshire Fife and Drum Corps at the Mass MoCA Chalet last night. Had drinks, cheese and crackers at home afterwards.

Rained last night.

Garden has produced two zucchini, one of each variety.

Yesterday I visited the Food Pantry. Ron picked up CSA vegetables. I sauteed veg meatballs with onions, garlic and a sweet pepper for supper.

Jett refused to eat yesterday but had his breakfast this morning. He met the new neighbor’s dog, Buddy. Buddy was nervous and aggressive; hoping he’ll take to Jett over time.

We met our new neighbors yesterday and brought them a fruit tray.

Today their moving truck got stuck halfway across the street. Ron helped by directing traffic and had a good chat with the driver.

I had a mammogram this morning. We had yogurt sundaes and listened to a lecture on high blood pressure at Harper.

Over the Labor Day weekend I did a lot of weeding along the driveway and in the corner garden. I think Ron hauled it all to the transfer station along with recyclables.

I got a call on Saturday or Sunday about plants I’d ordered months ago. Picked them up at Holiday Brook Farm in Dalton. Brought Jett who barked at their ostriches: how helpful.

Yesterday (Monday) I baked a vegetable pie. Outstanding but a lot of work. Baked eggplant this morning before my visit to North Adams Regional Hospital Imaging Department.

The new lilac arrived today. It’s sitting in a bucket getting rehydrated. Looked pathetic when I unpacked it, hope it’s okay. Still figuring it where to put it. The transplanted Montauk daisy doesn’t look real great, bottom leaves look like they will fall off soon.