The census taker

has been out visiting all day. He went over into the 900 numbers south of town. He visited with Tony Poor, Willie and Lorene Newboles, Don Stark's daughter but he can't remember her last name, the Stark woman that works at the library and is such a good friend with Patsy. Yesterday he talked to Bill Roberts. I don't think anyone called Washington DC on him today, unless maybe Tony Poor did.

Today was supposed to be his last day, but he is not through yet. He will work at least tomorrow. Maybe that will be the last.

Betty is going to be at Erin's tomorrow, so tomorrow afternoon I think I will drive down and see them.

Seeds 4 Sale

This is the way I was storing the seeds I collected this week. I have tall zinnias, short zinnias, short daisy like zinnias, tall marigolds, and short marigolds, and dill in the paper bag.



But the tall marigolds were on a newspaper in the back room to dry. After taking the first picture, I felt of the zinnias and the short marigolds and they felt soft with moisture. I now have them spread out to dry. My zinnias are not doing as well as the other flowers. Some of them are dying. I think because everything was planted too thick and there was much rain. Some of them still are doing OK, but most of the short ones are almost dead. I picked the blooms. Maybe they will come back, and maybe not. I guess I have plenty of flowers in any case.

I think after these all dry, I will put them in plastic baggies, but they have to be in something where they can breath until they are completely dry or they will collect mildew and rot. On the newspapers, they should completely dry in about a week. Rotten flowers for rotten sisters would be about right.

Bugs and Buds

And a beautiful blooming flower.

We had sun, now we have clouds and rain on the hills in the distance. No rain drops on my head yet.

I have picked many blooms for seed for next year. I have tall and short zinnias, tall and short Marigolds, spider flower seeds, dill seeds, and several seed heads from my beautiful purple cone flowers down by the mail box. Last year I intended to share seeds with Betty but somehow did not get that done. This year, I think I will take Betty's seeds to Erin sometime in September. If I can remember where I put them.

What is this? A UFO???

I don't remember seeing anything like this recently.

These are spider flowers (cleome). Aunt Thelma gave me some seed from these plants sometime in the 1980's. They grow like weeds, bloom all summer and reseed. These are from seeds from 2 or 2 plants I bought last year at a nursery. I had hundreds of these to come up this year. Many even in the grass in the yard around where I grew the 3 plants last year.

I picked 5 gallons of corn and put 3 pints in the freezer and saved enough for supper. We are having home grown pig, home grown corn, home grown potatoes, home grown tomatoes and Walmart grown gravy.

Too Much Flower

The marigolds in the last row of the garden next to the tomatoes and pepper plants grew too heavy and fell over onto the tomatoes and peppers after the rain yesterday. I went down and just pushed them over toward the grass away from the vegetables. It worked like magic. Now the veggies have room to breath. I have a few strawberry plants in this first row, but the rest is just a jungle of flowers.

The corn is falling over, but I think it will be fine. There is a lot more there than I will use anyway. Brother is supposed to come down tomorrow and pick the tomatoes and some corn if he wants that too. If George was not working censusing, I would send him to the farmers market with tomatoes on Wednesday morning.

Ungrateful Slob

Would be someone who complained about rain, in the Ozarks, in July.

They say it is going to be in the 90's the rest of the week.

There are toad stools growing in my garden.

Fresh corn

I picked my first corn today. I cut about half of it off the cob to put in the freezer. I just cut it and put it in the bag without blanching it. I don't think it will kill us, but I may cook a test batch for George before I try it. I got about 4 pints from about a 5 gallon bucket full of corn.

The local paper is running a feature series of grandkids photos. I think I will see if they will publish this one.