MK, hope you are feeling better. I think we all can relate to the pain that you have been through. We all remember those wisdom teeth.... awwy Thanks for the compliments on the pictures. About the sunflowers, no I am not planting any this year as I just kinda stuck with the basics, peas & corn. My wife has two raised beds of tomatoes. My life long best friend is in about the same shape as me, but he owns a dealership and I don't, so he sent the Club Car down to me. He came down this past week (from Warner Robins) and we rode around for 4 hours looking at our childhood. My butt was so sore I could barely get up the next day! Aw, come on... let hubby get a golf cart... then take it away from him.... like my zero turn mower... I am not even allowed on it and it was suppose to be for me! Birds... like the good son that always sent his mom & dad something at Christmas as he travelled all over the world. This past year he sent him an exotic bird from South America and later phoned to check on it. He asked his dad if he got the bird. Dad replied, "yep, and it was delious too". The son almost yelled at him and said "Dad, that was an exotic bird, expensive amd spoke two languages". Dad said, "Well, he should have spoke up then". ESH, this is like old times getting to message you back and forth. The cart is nice, just plug it in and charge the batteries every few days. The dog loves to ride with my wife. Will ride with me sometimes. It is a dog pound dog, but made a home here as did the other dog, both have been fixed. BMMALONE, thanks for the remarks on the pictures. I took them from the club car. Actually, my wife can take better pics than I, but she was at work. Someone has to work in the family... You called me young man, I am 64 if you call that young. Guess it is a relative term. The rain has been missing us for the past few days. I've heard that you should cut back on watering corn when it is near maturing. If I get a mess of corn in a week or two I will take a pic of it and post it. Shot

Your story reminded me of a real case that happened here severl years ago. A man drove to Walmart to pick up snacks for an afternoon of football viewing. When he came out of the store, he did not see his car and soon convinced himself that it had been stolen. He called the police on his cell phone. Just as the police arrived, he remmembered that he owned TWO vehicles. and then, he spied his car. He had driven the other car! Embarrased, he tried to explain to the policemen, but was staggering and had slurred speech. He failed a sobriety test and now the police had just cause to search his car. Yep. They found an open container of booze in front and drug devices and drugs in the glove box. He was in a peck of trouble. Best of all, he had called the police himself. There was suppressed merriment at the station house while he was booked.

Geraldine - I just had that happen w/ the canoe quilt I just finished. I only had enough of the darker fabric to make 30 blocks (there was more of the lighter background) so as I was cutting my last strip of the darker fabric, I cut it 1/4" too short!!!!! I had to set it aside too. But I'm either determined or bull-headed - I decided I could make up the difference in my seaming so I went ahead and used the fabric pieces that were 1/4" too short. It helped that the pieces cut from the strip were triangles so I had the bias to help in the 'stretching' and I was careful to have some of the 'shortness' at the top and the bottom of each block as I pieced them together. It did make the construction harder than it had to be, but once everything was put together, no one else would probably know. It did mess up some of my points, but not in a glaring way. I hope there is a way to make it work with yours also, but I completely endorse a 'cooling-off' time! Karlene

Haha I’ll do more reading on it to see if it’s true. I would love to just squish those bastards instead of having to attempt to drown them in soapy water, makes me feel like a monster lol ugh the summer was AWFUL for those beetles and literally no amount/type of insecticide worked, I’m almost convinced it made them into immortal mutants instead https://amherstgardenclub.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/controlling-japanese-beetles.pdf https://mynortherngarden.com/2012/07/27/two-things-you-did-not-know-about-japanese-beetles/