Back to My Back Porch Breakfast

 

 

 

Now that it seems summer's finally started, I'm back to eating early morning breakfasts outside, hot coffee, a good book--this one is the knitter Kaffe Fassett's autobiography--fabulously full of color and design.  Makes me want to paint, paint, paint!

 

  The kitchen garden, dahlias blooming.

 

 

 

Toby holding up one of my first ever cherry tomatoes.  Hurray for getting up here early enough for things to actually grow.

 

 

 

Another first for me--learning how to set a mouse trap.  Not fabulous but we did catch 4 mice in the red Volvo--had to, they were chewing out the wires.

 

 

 

A first for Alan and Toby a few weeks ago--young racoons peering at them as they walked across the back meadow.