Record heat here today and it was far from pleasant.  Normally I enjoy summer but we’ve had two major heat waves already and it’s barely into July.  We are going to have more records broken this week according to the weather reports.  If I wanted to live in the south I would, but I don’t. 

     My neighbor finished painting the shed today and it looks brand new.  All is painted except for the doors, which we told him to leave alone.  DH wants to straighten out some dents that he put in them and then we’ll paint them.

     Happy Birthday Chuck!  Hope you have a nice birthday, Sweetie!  Our dear old friend Chuckles has tacked on another year today. 

     On a gardening note: I found three little watermelons on the vines today.  The cucumbers are getting larger another week or two and I might have some in a salad.  I harvested more banana peppers.  There are a few nice patty pan squash coming along, finally.  No cantaloupes yet, the one or two I thought we might have died teensy.  I’m guessing they weren’t properly pollinated could be because the male and female flowers were out of sync but they seem to be blooming together now.  I hope that means we will have fruit to enjoy.  There are now dozens of green tomatoes on the tomato plants, yippee!