Wow, there's so much I want to say today.  Hopefully Tiger Cub and Lion Cub will grant me peace enough for a while to express myself in a reasonable manner!

First of all.......

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

Tiger Cub is still on the mend and suffering from sinus headaches today, so it's been a school-free day.  I've taken the opportunity to go through the house gathering up items for the recycling bins, donation, and the trash.  I was doing well with this before I got sick last week so I'm happy to have the energy to start again. 

Guess what's for dinner tonight...

Yep, straight from the garden!  Tiger Cub is quite picky and will normally not consider eating squash under any circumstance.  After I brought these beauties in he remarked that he was actually looking forward to giving them a taste test tonight.  Unfortunately on my green bean picking mission, I had another snake encounter.  This is what, #5 now?  What in the world is going on around my house this year?  I am not liking this at all.  I had let the dog out with me and was distracted by him nosing around where he shouldn't be.  Thankfully I looked in front of me just in time.  I screamed, ran, screamed some more and the snake made a fast getaway into our wooded area.  I screamed so much in fact that it brought on a coughing fit and I lost my voice again for awhile. 

Anyway, more news from the garden....... guess what this is.......

Corn!  I don't hold high hopes for this particular planting.  They are all midget stalks in comparison with the second (later) planting.  They are just midgets, period.  This was still an exciting sight to see this morning considering I've never had corn get this far along before (tried it just once before).

The Big Kahuna is anxiously watching the cucumbers...

and I'm anxiously watching all the okra plants...

I know the Big Kahuna had big plans for this tomato (as in fried green tomatoes), but it started turning red long before we thought it was finished growing.  It's very much a miniature tomato...

A couple of shots of the garden as of this morning...

The little sunflower patch I made for Tiger Cub and Lion Cub seems to be doing well.  It's full of critter tracks every morning, mostly from our own dog and cat.  *sigh*

Now I have two children bickering over a cardboard box so all hope of reasonable thinking has gone straight out the window.  In other words, that's all for now folks!

Mama Cat