APRICOTS AND ASHER

During the Hansen Cousin Reunion at end of July, Lance and Becky helped get the first of a bumper crop of apricots down for me.  I sent a large box home with them and I should have sent 4 boxes because they have been multiplying like crazy.  We've eaten them, frozen and canned them in variety of ways and have given them away to whomever would take them.  Best production from this tree ever!!!  And they just keep on coming.....

Of course the best ones were unattainable, but Ryan and Luke Johnson did their best climbing up the tree to retrieve as many as possible.

Here's cute Asher at two days old with proud papa.






and

here he is at four weeks old when he came upstairs to visit me.  He had his best night ever sleeping four hours between feedings making  sleep deprived mom very happy.

Landscapers finally came on Wednesday and removed ugly grass/weeded parking and overgrown fitzer and finished the job yesterday adding small rocks with character.  It looks so much better now and no more weeding for me, hurrah!

The weather is still beastly hot - same as Green Valley, and 10 degrees hotter than Modesto and still no relief in sight.  I think I have saved some of my garden though by covering it with a tent in afternoon to save those transplants I put in when two previous plantings failed.  So I may get pickles and pickled beets after all.