The past couple of days have been cool. Bright but with high temperatures around 60 degrees. Good weather for growing sugar snap peas--if we had a little rain to go with it.
Lawns in town are brown as they go dormant for lack of rain. Mine here are still pretty green, but then they are mostly wild flowers and weeds who might be hardier than cultivated lawn grass. I'm hauling buckets and milk jugs of water to all the flower beds every day, and have started to water the day lilies, too. I noticed their leaves rolling and some turning yellow--drought stress.
Crystal wrenched her rear leg in the run late yesterday afternoon. I'd put her outside in the run with her daughter Molly, littermate brother Freeway, and little elder Meghan to exercise. Somehow she lost her footing. She is very old and recovering from a stroke in March, and still suffers from bouts of vertigo. One rear foot dropped between the grid floor of the run and the chain link panel and sShe couldn't pull it up. She panicked and wrenched it before I could get to her. I gave her baby aspirin last night and she slept comfortably near me, but this morning she looks sore. After she eats I will give her another aspirin. She's putting weight on the foot so it likely is soft tissue bruise.
The pea patch is still blooming and as if shamed into existence, the second planting of sweet peas is pushing up a spindly few plants mixed into the morning glories that will soon create too much shade for the sweet peas. Morning glories seem more vigorous than sweet peas. Or the soil is better for them. But the weather is sure pea patch weather if only we had a little more water. The coolness is perfect and the sugar snap plants continue to bloom.
Now if only I could wait until the pea pods were more mature! Between me and the dogs they never make it into the house for that extra special stir fry.
Soon the green beans will flower and we'll snack on fresh green beans. Wild raspberries are ready and when I take Lexi for her walk we stop at the wild raspberry patch, pick a few sweet berries and share them--tart and sweet-- and then move on. Wild blackberries are fruiting, but lack of water may take that crop yet. We'll see. Those are harder to pick on a walk because of the thorns.
Summertime--at least I am not mowing lawns every fourth day!
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