Well, it's been awhile, but we've been busy. Today for instance, Megan and I spent about 2 hours wandering around looking for Tyler. He never usually wanders far and usually saunters up to us meowing when we come home. Both of us came home and neither of had seen him since about 7:30 AM. Hmmm.... we scoured the neighborhood, finding no Tyler. We did however find the cat that is most likely Tyler's mom and probably his brother/father, neither of which had collars. The male cat looked almost identical to Tyler, just a little bulkier. Anyway, we asked one neighbor if they'd seen Tyler and they said no. After another half an hour, we decided to see if maybe Tyler had gotten closed up in our next door neighbor's garage. Sure enough, there he was. Darn cat!
On the home front, we have had quite a few interesting events. Garden-wise we've now had 5 - 7 ripe tomatoes (the first was before July 4th, which apparently around here is a badge of honor), more blackberries than we can eat, lots of potatoes, and the green beans are finally coming on. We made some pesto this weekend, with everything but the olive oil coming from the garden. It was yummy! Later tonight we will try the blackberry/raspberry pie I made this morning. We are also planning (now) a master bath makeover. We haven't made a final decision on the design yet, but we'll have construction pictures after we get started. We also have a lot of other projects around the house that need to get done. First and foremost, we need to get the back door that is just plain old junk out and replace it with the door currently leaning against the wall in the garage. Of course, first we've got to bust out a big chunk of concrete since some previous owner poured concrete over the sill of the door (then cutting the door down by 2 inches to fit). The 1/8" plexiglass window in it is not very energy efficient in the winter!
Now, off to get ready for the first big mountain day in Le Tour tomorrow!
Just a quick garden update. Long story short, garden is growing great and we're back to our normal "supply us and neighbors with food" routine for the summer. We still have many potatoes to harvest, but alread have more than 20 lbs of potatoes in the wine cellar so we're trying to hold off a bit. We're a bit terrified we'll be buried in tomatoes when both beds start producing (only 1 is currently). Now if we could only keep up with the weeding!
