Rain! Glorious Rain!!

     I can't tell you what a beautiful sight this is. After what has been ages of clear skies and crazy high temperatures...we finally got some rain this evening. As soon as it started pouring I grabbed the girls and we ran, jumped, danced through the yard. It was wonderful!

     It's funny how things work sometimes. This time last year we were dealing with to much water and now we don't have enough! After the flood last summer I never thought I'd be wishing for giant downpours. It has been raining pretty steadily since around 7pm or so and we are loving every second of it. And, I'm guessing the garden is going to be a lot happier as well.

     I seriously love the little yellow flowers that cover our jumbo muskmelon vines. I grin everytime I look at them. Such happy little things.

     And here are a couple of the melons. Really can't wait till they are ready, I'm such a sucker for a good melon.

The squash are doing surprisingly well for being so crowded. I've actually never tried spaghetti squash so I'm going to have to have a look around for some recipies.

And our one and only eggplant is doing even better despite the crappy appearance of the leaves. There are six eggplants in this one pic, only one of which I saw while I was trying not to step on the melons or squash as I took the pic.

And...more of my little maters. I failed miserably at getting a good shot of the whole plant. I thought I had one but when I finally sat down to look at all my pictures I realized that my shadow was the most dominate feature. So, I got some close-ups instead. And yes..that is yarn in the picture. This plant is so big that it is pulling the cages (yes...we have it in two cages now) up out of the ground. So The Grouch did some creative "fixing" with some of my cheap yarn.

Next year, I'm taking over the garden. I'll be damned if I'm going to let The Grouch call his dad in again.

Bedtime for me, I was up way to late last night working on some projects and taking pictures of them in my little photo studio (aka..the bathroom. the one and only room in the house with decent lighting). A couple of them are presents for The Grouch's brother. And the other is a pattern I am attempting to write. I'm really excited about it so I hope it works out the way I see it in my head. Especially since now I'll have a way to share it with all you lovely folks!