Berserk plants

Have your plants gone berserk?

My strawberries are big and sweet and warm and juicy and about two weeks early. The spinach has been excellent, but also a couple of weeks early and has gone to seed already. I'm eating delicious Swiss chard every day. There are beans, peppers, eggplant and tomatoes starting on all the plants. My blackberries are already ripe. At least they're too early for bears. Blueberries are out and the flowers are amazing. But what's going on? I have a few Chrysanthemums starting to flower and those usually flower in October if I remember correctly.

Can there be a hole in the ozone layer over my yard? I'm starting to wonder if I should replant a second crop. Will my yard become a jungle or turn into the the great 2010 dust bowl of Summer Street?

Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Carried Away—again!

We just got back from another book reading/signing. This time, instead of a book store, it was at the Heritage Towers Senior Center.

Kate and a friend


Lois and Kate signing books


All proceeds benefit the Postal Employees Emergency Relief Fund. Copies are selling at an alarming rate, so If you are interested in buying a copy; do it here
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Carried Away—True Stories from Postal Carriers Across America

How exciting to do our first book reading/signing at Bertram and Oliver Book Sellers in Amesbury, MA

The hairy one is Briney Berkenbush, our spokesmodel and a mail carrier's best friend…

All proceeds benefit the Postal Employees Emergency Relief Fund. Copies are selling at an alarming rate, so If you are interested in buying a copy; do it here
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The rhubarb that ate my house

Strawberry rhubarb garden

LAZY Sunday

Oh dear… The party started at two in the afternoon, and I didn't get to bed till 3:00 am. Friends and food and wine and a campfire. Gelato cake—my new favorite. I was supposed to be at the gym at 10:00 this morning. If they called me I didn't hear the phone.

What a beautiful day. You gotta love summer. i saw the first hummingbird at the feeder. I'm going to weed the garden (sitting down) and then read a book in the hammock. When I smell one of my neighbors grilling supper, I'll drop by with a jug of nice fruity ice tea and try to look really hungry. Hope nobody reads this until after supper.

I love it that when our neighborhood starts to get all shady, I can look up and see airplanes, so high up that they still reflect the sun. I love airplanes. I even love airports. From the minute I leave the house I feel like someone just yelled "Road Trip!"

Glorious day.

Ha, Ha! Squirrels fear me!

It's true. Now that I can trap squirrels and I already own a chainsaw, if I buy a snowmobile, they'll let me move to New Hampshire—but enough about my intellectual pursuits…

Spill of the day

May 14th 12:45 am Decided I needed more vegetables in my life. Watching a video, I gave a can of V8 a big shake and popped the top. Good movie. Five minutes later, I went to give the can a big shake and pop the top…