As promised last week, I'll start with a focus on the garden. We harvested our first yellow beans this week. They were incredibly tasty and we should have several more weeks of them to enjoy. By which time, the green and runner beans should be ripe. Our cucumbers are starting to grow up their vines and it appears we can make another rhubarb harvest. Finally our lettuce keeps coming in faster than we can eat it. We are fairly happy with our output from our six beds this year especially, given this is our first year using our raised beds. Although we have been plagued somewhat with bugs on our zucchini's and other miscellaneous pests and of course there is always the rabbits.
We had a quieter weekend than last weekend, but still filled with many events. This week is Northwestern Mutual's annual meeting so we have several events associated with it. It started Friday night where we had dinner downtown at the Milwaukee Public Market with several of the financial representatives and home office colleagues. This morning we participated in the 5K/10K race that is run every year. While it was hot, we finished in the middle of the pack, not too bad for folks in their fifties. It provides a small amount of satisfaction to run by twenty year olds having to stop and walk for a stretch. Later today, we have an event at the zoo, where the entire zoo is rented out and we can tour it without a lot of crowds along with free food (I particularly like the Sprecher's Root Beer floats - I had 3 or so last year and I'm hoping to beat that record this year).
Our weather finally cooled off a bit along with providing some much needed rain. However, it is jumping back up into the high 80's/90's for the next several days so no long term relief there, as yet. The cooler temperatures allowed me to get outside and complete some more of the outside painting. That was coupled with our contractor finally finishing our radiator tops all of which had to be repainted prior to reinstalling them (we had slits cut in the tops to help radiate the heat out - a valuable suggestion from my Dad). So another week applying paint to the house. I finally finished the painting in the back and will be moving to do the front facade next.
As promised last week, I'll start with a focus on the garden. We harvested our first yellow beans this week. They were incredibly tasty and we should have several more weeks of them to enjoy. By which time, the green and runner beans should be ripe. Our cucumbers are starting to grow up their vines and it appears we can make another rhubarb harvest. Finally our lettuce keeps coming in faster than we can eat it. We are fairly happy with our output from our six beds this year especially, given this is our first year using our raised beds. Although we have been plagued somewhat with bugs on our zucchini's and other miscellaneous pests and of course there is always the rabbits.
We had a quieter weekend than last weekend, but still filled with many events. This week is Northwestern Mutual's annual meeting so we have several events associated with it. It started Friday night where we had dinner downtown at the Milwaukee Public Market with several of the financial representatives and home office colleagues. This morning we participated in the 5K/10K race that is run every year. While it was hot, we finished in the middle of the pack, not too bad for folks in their fifties. It provides a small amount of satisfaction to run by twenty year olds having to stop and walk for a stretch. Later today, we have an event at the zoo, where the entire zoo is rented out and we can tour it without a lot of crowds along with free food (I particularly like the Sprecher's Root Beer floats - I had 3 or so last year and I'm hoping to beat that record this year).
Our weather finally cooled off a bit along with providing some much needed rain. However, it is jumping back up into the high 80's/90's for the next several days so no long term relief there, as yet. The cooler temperatures allowed me to get outside and complete some more of the outside painting. That was coupled with our contractor finally finishing our radiator tops all of which had to be repainted prior to reinstalling them (we had slits cut in the tops to help radiate the heat out - a valuable suggestion from my Dad). So another week applying paint to the house. I finally finished the painting in the back and will be moving to do the front facade next.
Garden looks great and the green beans look very tasty! I hope we can try some when we come for a visit!
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