July 9. Finally Friday.

Yesterday was a bad day garden wise. The deer once again munched on the tomatoes and cucumbers. The little bugger even chopped off the Swiss chard. 

So... I placed an order with Tractor Supply for stakes and deer net fence. Last evening Bandit supervised while I placed it around the garden perimeter, the cucumber bed,  the new and old hydrangeas and the three blueberry bushes out front. Also made a scarecrow that needs a bit more work.

Was pretty upset about the whole ordeal.

Didn't do anything constructive yesterday. Sat around and streamed tv shows and played games on the internet.

Well, that's not exactly true. I did place and picked up an order at Wal-Mart too.

Have been having thunderstorms almost every day. One had hail as big as an inch.

Today will make forty days on Duolingo. 

Gonna get a cup of coffee and start my day. Was nice of the kitties to let me sleep in until 6:00 this morning. 

June 29.

No new deer damage overnight. Besides the beets, there was damage on the hydrangea, cucumbers, pumpkins, hostas,  lilacs and, of course, tomatoes. Those poor lilacs were also wilted from the heat. Drenched them a couple times yesterday and again this morning. One of them has come back. Hopefully the other will recover as well.

Drained off last year's canned green beans. They didn't taste right. Guess Bandit and I will dump them out in the woods. Perhaps something will eat them. What a waste of time, effort and food. Will freeze them this year if they ever sprout.

Ate the first zucchini from the garden last night. Gonna have some beets today. There are several small Roma tomatoes forming, two green peppers so far and both the zucchini and summer squash are loaded. Had forgotten that kohlrabi is a brassica. Might transplant it away from the peppers. My fault for planting it on the south side of the peppers.

Turned the A/C off earlier this morning, but the humidity is 92% so it's going back on in a few minutes. Supposed to reach 88 degrees this afternoon. The kind of day where you stand up and break a sweat. Guess it'll be another indoor day. Perhaps I'll embroider a while.

June 28.

Another Monday. Bandit woke me this morning by woofing. He's usually pretty quiet except when he's whining for a treat. Thought maybe there was a deer in the garden, but didn't see one out there.

Spent some time in the garden yesterday after discovering the deer had eaten the beets. Almost cried. The ones they didn't eat were pulled out of the soil. Guess I'll be eating beets this week.

Hung the garland I got at the Dollar Store. Only went about halfway around, so I hung the garden flags I made earlier. Put up a couple cow bells too. Later today if I can find the energy I'm going to put up a motion detector light. If that fails will resort to buying an electric fence.

Finished installing the flooring in the living room. At least, I thought it was done. Came in from walking Bandit and noticed some separation. Not sure what to do about it. 

Put Mom's area rug down in the living room. Sue was right - it collects dirt. Guess ill pull it back up for now.I

Got the animals fed, poop scooped, all the garbage out to the curb including the stinky carpet.

Not even 7 a.m. and it's so humid I'm turning the A/C on. So much to do, so little time. Think I'll feed the birds and get my work started.