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Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday Dear Sheri... Happy birthday to ME!!! So.. since it's my birthday.. Guess I'll show you my birthday present :) This is Jumpy George, I rescued him from the humane society today :) He is the sweetest bunny, cuddly and gives kisses too! Not only is he an awesome pet, but he'll also be handy helping with the garden. :) He seems kinda old, and looks almost exactly like our old bunny Floppy Fred. They have very similar markings.. Fred escaped and has been a stray bunny for years... this bunny was turned in as a stray a few weeks ago... Wanna see my garden? Of course you do! My out front peas have sprouted! I think a pumpkin has snuck itself into my box garden... prolly gonna have to pull this huge thing.. before it wrecks my squash. This doesn't look like a baby squash to me.. See the difference between my heirloom tomato and my roma.. the Roma is on the right.. One of the tomatoes on that heirloom is gargantua...

Well.. this weekend started out with a girls lunch out with my bitty girl on Friday.. I took the girlie out to the Mandarin for some lunch.. I wanted Sushi pretty badly.. she HATES seafood.. so this was the best option... The food was good as usual.. but the Shirley Temple she got was to die for! At some point after we got to the cottage Andrew got ahold of my camera and they took these shots.. The next morning the kids were out on the lake in record time! These flowers grow everywhere but at my house.. and I love them. The kids had to use the pedal boat next Drew fell in a few times just to make Tisha laugh. Apparently Uncle Gene has been keeping better track of Drew's growth than we have.. and so now we know that in the last two months the boy has grown about an inch. This is the view from the A frame cottage.. what a nice view to wake up to in the morning! Tisha and her cousins Eve and Gillian were busy doing manicures. The boys, on the other hand, were catching crayfish, I can...

So.. just gonna post some pics before taking a weekend off to head to the cottage and get out of this ridiculous heat wave. I was out watering the garden this morning.. because it has not rained here enough to mention in about a month.. I must say I am really grateful for the amount of leaf in my soil right now because it really hangs on to the water I put there. Leaves are one of the most absorbent things you can add to your soil, even better than peat moss! Last fall we managed to add about a million bags of leaves to the garden, so my soil is awesome. I didn't really occur to me just how awesome it was until I was trying to plant some flowers out front in that cement block I call my front flower bed. The soil there is SO different from what I have in the veg garden now. Inspired me to start adding more compost and manure to the front beds as well. Anyhoo.. on to the picture show! This impressed me.. Some of my tomato plants have reached the top of their 6 foot spirals! Th...