Rainy Days & Sundays

We've had rain for the past two days, so I haven't done much of anything outside. My grass is really needing mowed but not till it dries out. I was driving home from downtown on Saturday and a bird landing on a telephone pole caught my attention. It is a hawk/kite of some sort and I thought it might be the same one that I had photographed earlier but I'm not so sure. This one appears to have a light colored head with a dark body and the other seems to have a dark colored head. The under body of the other one is light colored but I can't tell what it's back looks like.
Sunday my daughter and her husband brought over a truckload of lumber to burn in my fire pit. This was the remains of what once was K-Monster's fort/clubhouse and it was getting to be a hazard.

All the in-town grandkids came over to swim and eat icees.

The fire got hot enough the the sil had to find a long board to move things around with.

Below is what the fire pit looks like after two days of rain. Amazing that the full truckload burned down to nothing. You can see how intense the heat had been by the yellow grass all around the pit. I shouldn't have to worry about taking the weed eater to that for a while.

Took some pictures of the flowers that have bloomed around my garden. Only two large ones.

A pink zinnia...

Is this a giant marigold?

The same two from the other side....

The tomato plants are loaded but still not ripe.

Pumpkin is still looking good, but all the other vines are dying around it.

Just a lazy rainy day today. All the kids went back to school last Thursday. Need to figure out when to have the last swim of the season and get the pool drained.

My First Potato Harvest

It's not much, but I actually wasn't sure if I was going to get any at all. First I planted them really late and then I really didn't fill the tire tater towers as sufficiently as I really should have and one of the plants rotted out and died. I'll do better next year.
Before long I should have more tomatoes that I know what to do with. See all the green tomatoes on the two plants below? These are yellow tomato plants.

I've got a good crop of Roma tomatoes on the one plant. The other Roma tomato plant is the scrawny, sickly one I wrote about a few posts back.

There were more pretty pink moss roses on the plants in the window box on the playhouse.

It was really pretty out today, not too terribly hot. Tomorrow we're suppose to have rain.

Last of the Green Tomatoes

The day after Thanksgiving I brought up the last of green tomatoes that I wrapped in newspaper and put downstairs to ripen.

In all, only a few went bad before I got to them. It was really wonderful to be able to unwrap a tomato or two daily long after the tomato plants had died in the garden. Now all I have are frozen tomatoes for use over the winter months. I'm sure they'll soon be gone, too.