In The Dead Heat of Summer .....

Man is it hot! Every day for the past month has been one hundred degrees, sometimes more. Somehow I have managed to keep my garden and lawn alive - for the most part. There have been causualties. I can't wait for cooler weather. I'm not adding any plants at this point, just trying to water and keep alive what I already have. Fall will bring the chance to create new spaces and plantings. One thing I am very happy about is the new arbor that replaced the leaning tower of Casey. I will reccomend never to buy an arbor off of Amazon.com. I paid $200 for what was supposed to be a $500 cedar arbor and what I got was $7 worth on cheap wood, some screws and an arbor that looked NOTHING like the picture. So I went to Lowe's and got what I really wanted a squar cedar arbor. I loooooove it. I am going to stain all the wood and even the fence the same color. I can't wait. Well I can. I am going to wait till its not so hot to do all this staining. Here are some recent pictures.