After a late start, my tomatoes finally took off a couple weeks ago and are about 6' high now. If the little green orbs would just start turning red - except the ones that are supposed to be yellow - that would be just great. I also bought a bell pepper plant just for kicks when I got the tomato plants. It had one budd for one bell pepper, and that's still all it has, altho the one pepper is coming along pretty good. However, $3.00 is a bit much for one home-grown bell pepper.

The rodent deer tore down a section of fencing on the north side the other day. Off to buy more fence posts and deer fencing today. Eventually I think my yard is going to be a "gated community" in order to keep vermin deer eating just the wild things. One of them is a young spike in velvet, and I been wishing I still had my old bow. Every now and again I look at Ebay and am tempted. Come October, would it be OK to pop him with a 9mm handgun? Since I paid for just about everything that lil' bastard has been eating, along with the two does and three new fawns from this last spring.