Some recent summer pictures

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Orion's dad has been up here for the last week or so to help work on the garage.


The outer wall in the late-evening sun (and by late evening I mean, oh, 11 p.m. or so)


Look out! Hail! You can't really see it in this picture, but it was falling so hard and fast that you could barely see across the yard -- wet hail mixed with rain.


Today the hard-working construction crew put up the rafters.

I actually worked in my garden a little bit today. It's not much this year ... some strawberry plants (which the birds have been eating the strawberries from), some lettuces, and I planted a few rows of carrots and spinach today, which should at least get big enough to eat before the September frosts come.

I forget if I posted any pictures of the garden construction process ... here's an older one...


I basically used the natural "riffles" in the dredged gravel piles and built little rock walls across the ends of them to hold the dirt in.


Here's a picture of the garden taken today, after I'd done my planting. It's coming along. I figure I'll add a little to it each year, as I have time.