Fresh from the garden....

These are sitting in my kitchen...waiting for my attention. I am thinking some tomato juice will be made some time tomorrow. There is nothing better than home canned tomato juice.

They make me think of summer days and coming in with a load of stuff from the garden, and taking time to grab a tomato and a shaker of salt and sitting on the edge of the porch to eat till the juice would not drip all over the place. All winter long I have been waiting for them...we have been having them for a week or two now and I still am not tired of them. And I have not ventured beyond having them with salt or on a sandwich...but look plan to have some soaked in Italian dressing one of these days.

I also love to cut up other vegetables along with the tomateos and pour enough Italian dressing over it all and let it soak...my favorites are cucumbers, bell peppers, cauliflower, onions. I feel like I am forgetting something but can't think what....

Date with Lorelei = photo overload

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For ages and ages we have wanted to take Lorelei to the creek to play...
this afternoon we met our daughter in Bainbridge, put the car seat in our Rav4 and transferred the things they brought...we think it was a big hit....she waded with her mommy and papaw
she threw rocks and splashed.....
she played with her buckets
and sprinkling can
and had the best time.
I bet we will be doing this again...but I hope we can go when it is cooler. There were places to get in the shade but if not in the shade it was just too hot for me.

From last week...

I meant to show these last week...I love the light streaming through. These photos don't do it justice.
Believe it or not, we had a little cooling off here the past couple of days. I have sat on our porch quite a bit today....and I even pulled a few weeds while outside.