Bug Off!

This, my friends, is one reason I do NOT like living in the country! Flies! They have inundated my house....ugh! Typically, we use bug bombs in the house and that takes care of them. We haven't had a chance to do that yet this summer. Not that we haven't been gone for long enough periods of time, we just forget. So, now there are tons of flies in my house. They stay pretty well in the kitchen bathroom and my craft room. Basically where I am hanging out the majority of my days! I can about guarentee the bug bombs will get put to use in the near future.

For some reason they really like my ankles, er, cankles when I'm out picking beans in the garden. ANNOYING!!! I can't go out there anymore without a douse of bug spray on! It's like my new summer scent. I think Andy has become attracted to the smell of Off. Yick!

Speaking of beans. Lately I've felt a bit like a migrant worker. We have green coming out our.....you know! Just yesterday I picked three gallon buckets full! I have to say tho - yummy! There is nothing like fresh green beans. And I like to pick them young - before they develop that little seed inside. I seriously could eat a whole plateful! I'm not a huge fruit eater, and so I make up for that in veggies! I love veggies. Beets - they are the other thing we have been chowing down on. This year are beets are better than ever. The spot that our garden is in used to be the foundation of a shed. So the dirt sat there idle for 50+ years. The last few years are beets had no color inside of them and they really didn't have any flavor. We put some fertilizer on the garden this year and I think in conjunction with the ground being worked the last couple of years has helped. The beets are deep red, almost black and full of flavor. Yumm! We had those for supper tonight - they go great with grilled burgers. I've also got peas in the garden, but they've been slow. I think this will be the last year for those. They are really a pain in the ......! Now, we're just waiting on the sweet corn........it's awfully late this year, so I hope it'll be good.

Sorry, that's all I got today. Not much but blabber!