I’m not cool with high temperatures

I haven’t yet given a report on my garden this year.

I’m pleased to report it is so much better than last year.

I don’t know why. With the drought, it didn’t get as much water as in other years

The 90-degree heat kept me inside the house where the air conditioning is. I know that wasn’t the right thing to do but I just can’t tolerate these long hot spells, and I know I’m not the only one complaining.

But, shame on me when the snow is flying and the temperature shows 20 degrees I will be complaining about the cold and how I can’t seem to go outside. There are some people you just can’t satisfy, right?

One of the things I messed up on when getting my plants for the garden this spring was the squash section; I guess I really didn’t know the many varieties of squash. I was paying attention and trying to find the kind that I was planting, but somehow I must have got one plant that had been put in with others because when I start doing my garden I discovered I had THREE (yes, three) ZUCCHINI plants. With only two people eating zucchini at my house, how could I have ended up with THREE plants?

Do you know how many zucchini one plant can produce, you people who don’t have a garden? When my relatives friends and neighbors see me coming to their house they say to me “no, I don’t need any more zucchini today!” I do have many friends and others who do take them because they are giving me pity and I thank them.

When my dad had a garden in the mucklands I believe in bringing some of the produce he brought home, unbeknown to himself a “hoppy toad” because I had never noticed one in our garden ever, until then, and while working one day I happened to come in contact with one which scared the daylights out of me until I knew what it was.

I called it mine and gave it a name. Each year since then I looked for my little critter, not knowing if perhaps it was the same one or one of its offspring (I don’t know the age span of toads). For the past many many years there have been only two years that I missed my “pet”. This year my pal has arrived and it’s like renewing the presence of an old friend. Reading this you may think I’m a little “daff,” but for some reason he was a pleasant company for me when I worked on the “north forty”.

Last year’s tomatoes didn’t do so well with blight, but so far I’m hoping there will be a good crop. I’m sure many have enjoyed their garden because they got it in early, but my theology is if you have it in by Memorial Day you don’t have to worry about frost warnings at night and you can have a good night’s sleep.

At our house we need to think about freezers. Ours decided to quit this spring after many years; it was given to us by a relative who’d had it for a few years himself. It was a General Electric chest type. They don’t make appliances to last like they did back then. Nowadays I’m told refrigerators, freezers etc. last perhaps 10 years or so and I guess that’s true.

Now I have the chore of going to purchase a freezer and then you have to hold your breath that something else doesn’t decide to quit. Such is life. Does any of this sound familiar at your house?