It's finally looking like summer around here

Yesterday, once I had emptied the dehydrators (got a whole ½ gallon of peppermint, so that’s finished) and gotten my morning chores done, I crashed and burned. I’d done far too much the previous 2 days

Went out first thing Tuesday morning and harvested the rugosa roses and a huge bowl of peppermint. It was supposed to rain early yesterday morning, but it was not going to until around 11AM. So my helper

Our solar panels are a leased system, installed in January 2011. I’d sort of noticed something was off back in March when a bill like this arrived: This is May’s bill, and I should have been paying attention.

Sunday I made 7½ pints of garlic scape pesto. I have a lot of large pieces left to make pickles. I’d planned to do that today, as it was to rain, but now they are saying the rain’s not coming until late