Last week in my garden: June 21, 2014

Sickly pepper plants, I'm not sure what the problem is.  I may need to amend the soil but I don't know what with.

I've just about denuded the lettuce plants!

Broccoli, Cauliflower and Cabbage are all growing very slowly, as are the tomatoes.  Is it the weather?  That hole is where I pulled the volunteer parsnips.  I'll replant those.

As you can see, the root vegetables were poorly planted.  I need to thin them and replant.  The onions are growing alright though.

Volunteer lemon balm.  It's growing in a couple of places now.

Green beans seem to be doing well now.

But, as dad said, it's too bad you can't eat squash leaves- they are growing gangbusters!

Basil and dill, neither of which are growing well.

I needed to make a salad for 21 people.  That's how my lettuce got denuded but it was good salad.

These are the volunteers and they tasted wonderful roasted.

NOW!

This is Simon and when he wants his cuddles, he wants them NOW.  He has been known to hurl himself up my body with the expectation that I will catch him and give him love.  He also has the slight disgusting but totally sweet habit of grooming me- my face and neck mostly, sometimes ears (EWW).
These pictures were taken on my birthday and he didn't want to let me get dressed until he had his snuggles.







Ahhhhh!

My 40th birthday!

Last Saturday was my 40th birthday.  To celebrate, my parents and I went to the coast.
We spent about 4.5 hours at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.  I have lots of pictures but haven't downloaded the camera.  However, the octopus put on a good show after my camera battery died and I was shooting on my iPhone.




After the aquarium, we travelled south down the coast to Cape Perpetua where mom and I hiked down the St. Perpetua trail.  It would have been more of a challenge to go up but we got confused about where the trail started and went to the top instead.  It was a beautiful day.














There were flowers too...maybe in another post.  I had lots of pictures.