The plants you don't recognize here are peanuts.

A little cooler yesterday and last night and this morning feels great for now, but even hotter is predicted--100 by Friday.

I stayed home yesterday--Ray went to work after just a couple hours of sleep. My Dad and I did some work outside and then he peeled tomatoes. I made salsa and froze it and we are looking for the perfect gazpacho recipe. Do they all have bread in them? I froze more green beans. Ray dozed in the afternoon.

Petunias self-sowed in the sweet potato patch.

We have a serious pumpkin vine--will it grow fruit?

Picking beans buried in pumpkins (giant dill plant in foreground)

Our friend Paul and his two daughters visited in the late afternoon. His wife Maureen was at a business conference in Atlanta. He showed them around campus and then came here. They enjoyed the house and the chickens and Ray walked them over to the river. Then they headed off. We were good friends when Amelia was little and Molli was born. He seems just the same. They live near DC and joked about us living in the country. They were worried about ticks etc. from their walk.

I had made rice salad and sauteed some shrimp and steamed green beans. I also harvested a half-cup pf rhubarb and cooked that up into a sauce with honey and orange juice and currants and cinnamon. We had it over vanilla ice cream while we watched TV. Ray came to bed with me and I slept pretty well.