I had a couple of nice surprised while doing my morning rounds!
The first was spotting new seedlings – of White Scallop patty pan squash!!!
This was our third attempt of sowing these, and I planted two pairs of seeds in the bed with the onions and shallots. There are still none in the pot (sowed them twice in there) and I had been thinking of what I could plant in the empty space where the Magda and White Scallops had failed, only to find these! So far, it’s just the one pair of seeds. No sign where the other pair was planted, but if it took this long for the first ones to show up, there is still hope!
Now, they just need to survive.
Still no Magda here, but a second one germinated in the pot on the steps.
There is also a nice little row of tiny kohlrabi seedlings popping up in the potato bed at the chain link fence.
I got a surprise phone call this morning, too. The scrap guy was going to be in our area. Did we want him to come by?
Today???
Yes, today.
*sigh*
I’m taking my mother to her medical appointment today, so that won’t be an option. We talked a bit about the state of the ground for getting to the barn and stuff. He’s going to be in the area again later – he has to wait for the ground to dry out more, first, so he can’t say exactly when, but he can call us first, if we want.
Yes, please!
We need to re-bag the aluminum, anyhow. Between the cats, racoons and skunks, quite a few bags have been torn up. That’s the down side of having so many cat food cans in there!
Since I’m going to be in the area, anyhow, after I bring my mother home from her appointment, I’m going to head over to my homesteading friend that sells eggs. She’s overwhelmed with eggs again – this has been a good year for eggs for a lot of people! – and is all but giving them away. When she posted about it on FB and someone asked the price, she just said “whatever is reasonable!”
We still had eggs, but the girls cooked some up with their supper, and boiled the rest for egg salad, so there is room in the fridge again. I’ve asked for 4 flats. I remembered to ask if she needed egg trays, and she does, so I’ll be bringing a bunch of those over for her, too.
With all the driving around, plus the likelihood that my mother will be seen late (hard to say; I’ve actually been seen early, at this clinic!), and a trip to pick up eggs, I’ll probably not get home until well into the evening.
Today, we’re supposed to reach a high of 28C/82F, and now the forecast has the same high for the next two days. As I write this, we’re at 23C/73F, but the humidex is already at 31C/88F! Humidity is at 81%, but apparently there’s just a 9% chance of rain this afternoon – or thunderstorms, if I look at a different app!
Next weekend, we’re supposed to reach highs of 30C/86F, and stay there for days.
I do wish we had better forecast regarding rain or storms, so we know whether the garden needs to be watered or not! I probably will anyhow, tomorrow morning, just so the garden can better handle the heat.
Especially our tiny little seedlings!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
I’ve started leaving the cat food cans out, so critters can deep clean them with breaking unto trash/recycling. I pick them during the next feeding.
No rain here! Today is the start of another heatwave.
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When I do the wet cat food, I set them on the floor for the cats to lick clean, so you’d think there’d be nothing else to tempt the outside critters! We’ve got bags and bags of aluminum of all kinds in the garage, but it’s those cat food cans that gets them. Boy, do they make a mess!
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