Made entrees and sides from on-hands: macaroni with basil, garlic, toasted pine nuts and ranch dressing; chili; Greek style tortellini salad.

Even with eating carbs, Ron and I have lost weight.

We took the brush to the transfer station.

I mowed the front and side lawn.

The most successful vegetable varieties for succession planting include: arugula, basil, beans, beets, broccoli raab, carrots, cilantro, dill, green onions, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, bok choi, radish, spinach, swiss chard and turnips.

This could be the hottest weekend of the Summer.

We did okay yesterday. Ron finally gave up on working outside, and I was in an air conditioned truck for a couple of hours, driving the lads to and from work.

Stopped to attend the open house for the big house on the ridge. They are asking for a ridiculous amount of money, more than double what a similar house next door sold for a couple of years ago.

After dropping James off today, I stopped by a fellow gardener’s home in Barnstable. Her yard is almost completely filled with daylilies, and I wanted to pick up some reds for Peter’s garden.

She sold me a gorgeous clump for much less than I’d pay at any nursery.

Being a Cape Cod gardener (good soil is precious), she gave them to me bare rooted, so I decided on the way back to swing by and plant them before the tenants get back.

Ron finished the laundry. We made the bed and put clothes away. I did some watering, mostly the potted plants but also tomatoes, and the Kousa and hibiscus transplants.

On my way to pick up James, I dropped off a tarp for the SPEA workers, who did a phenomenal job cleaning up the area around the bulletin board. James helped me get it in the truck. I watered the new daylilies again.

Veg burgers, homemade coleslaw and fresh corn for supper.

I fight it, daily, but hell yeah, I’m down a lot of the time.

It’s great that a Monarch butterfly found our Butterfly Weed, but it arrived too late for the milkweed flowers.

I’ve been weeding acorn shoots, again. Pulled a bunch of other weed-like plants from the oval and the “moon garden”.

The squirrel defenders arrived yesterday. I attached about half to the shower wall we put up the other day. Tried to be careful but I broke one of Ron’s drill bits in the process, unfortunately.

Hosta are tough as nails, but they are vulnerable to slugs. I put coffee grounds and Epsom salts around the ones I got from Lori.

Ron is working on another idea for the outdoor shower.

Bought tix for us to see a film next week about gene splicing.

Back to depression: I get plenty of sleep, exercise outside daily and eat reasonably healthily. Physical work helps fend it off, but it’s still there in the background, like a word you can’t quite remember or a thought you’d lost track of.

Cleaned up the window boxes and transplanted two marigolds.

We, mostly Ron, re-hung the shower wall. He installed a brace for the 4×4, attaching it to the TOP of the deck instead of the bottom. Will be much easier to modify if needed.

Supper was unplanned but good: veg “fish” fillets, broccoli, fresh corn, salad. Vanilla yogurt and rhubarb sauce for dessert. Wine for me, beer for Ron. No dent in the cash flow, it was all “on hand” and from the gardens.

Ed came by, and we had a really nice visit yesterday. Was good to see him. He’s pleased with our upgrades and gardens.

It rained pretty much all day, great for the plants.

We went to the last Falmouth Eats Together at the Methodist church, then did errands: banking, Walmart for my Rx, Cumby for the van.

Several accidents and heavy traffic for a while in downtown Falmouth.

A careless driver almost T-boned us at the intersection of Worcester Court and Spring Bars. Probably should be a 4-way stop there. The van started making a groaning noise with hard right turns afterwards.

I harvested almost all of the rhubarb and made sauce. Salads for lunch and supper.

Did some research to see if I could find the Hopper houses and landscapes in Truro.

Laundry.

Veg gardens are way behind last year. At this point, it’s about weeding and watering.

Recently, I’ve been spending more time pulling oak shoots from the grass than weeding the gardens

The transplanted Kousa didn’t look good today, so I gave it a watering around 5 and set it up to be watered tomorrow at 7. Haven’t been paying enough attention.

We got the hardest shower wall up today. Ron cut out bigger “channels” for the water pipes and we wedged splints under the bottom front. I have no idea if it’s level or plumb; we’ll figure it out tomorrow.

Paid bills.

I don’t remember leaving the house. Cucumber sandwich and greens/cheddar/pear salad for lunch. Popcorn for supper.

Terrific concert last night by the Experimental Ensemble of Cape Cod at the Mashpee community park!

I tried a couple of different ways to light the oven, and failed. May be more complicated than a DIY.

I also had no luck figuring out how to take the non-working oscillating sprinkler apart.

Ron started to prep the house wall to reattach the shower. I ordered “spikes” for the tops to discourage Those That Climb.

Eggplant parm subs for lunch.

Pulled more acorn “weeds”.

Put compost around the tomatoes, squash and beans.

Pulled more oak tree shoots. Gathered, sorted and washed a nice bag of greens. We had them for supper in a veg and pear salad with kale. Ron had the pears; too ripe for me.

Got a check today. Went to the Commons to see a band I like, stopped at the bank and filled up at Stop & Shop: 30 cents off per gallon.

New planters arrived today. We attached them to the trellis; fingers crossed.