WHO ATE THE COBBLER? ...

Who ate the pie?

"Not I" - said the little agouti bunny.

(Peaches came all at once - and pretty mushy.  So a frenzy of peach stuff.  Some chopped up in the freezer too.  More fruit in that cobbler than it looks.  Might tasty.)

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, COWBOYS AND INDIANS, BOYS AND GIRLS ...

... and little bitty babies!  Please welcome - Kitty Boy!

"Oh, Puleezzze."  -  KB the napping

(Somebody asked ...)

"I CUD HAZ ...

... cool?  Pleez?"  -  Chico the Hot.

The heat got the peaches ripe.  They are Frost peaches and usually kind of mushy.  The good peaches don't grow here.

What the heck - make a cobbler!

This weekend - back to normal temps.  Yay!

"A FAN AND SOME SHADE ...

... I think I can make it!"  -  Benji the Cool.

Yellow Swallowtail

80 degrees F. plus here Thursday and Friday.  No air conditioning.  We'll be spending time here when the sun moves around the side of the house.  Send some breeze.

"A BED OF ROSES ...

... would have been more like it!" 

-  The Princess, Miffed.

We live in the upper left, right between Mt. Vernon and Anacortes.  We usually have a good sea breeze from the west to keep us cool.  The Cascade Mountains are very high (10,000 feet) and go north and south about 50 - 60 miles inland from us.  You can see Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt Adams, Mt. Baker, and Glacier Peak.  Cle Elum, where the big fire is, is east of the mountains - right about where the Y in Yakima River is.  It is usually very warm over there in the summer.  Irrigation water from the Columbia River makes for outstanding crops of fruits and wheat.  Sometimes, like now, the air pressures are such that the prevailing winds come from the east, instead of the west.  Then, as the air falls down over the west side of the Cascades, toward us, it warms a lot and we get cooked.  80's here for 3 days - maybe close to 100 down in Portland where they are much farther from the sea.

("There will be a test in three days time." -  RG the Perfesser.)

"MEN! SIGH! ....

... Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em." - Zoey the Experienced. 

"For once I'm not the brunt of the despair."  -  RG the Listener.

"I COULD JUMP AND BE FREE!

... Nah.  The food is too good here."  -  Racer the Wise!

Red crocosmia and daises along the garage.  (PS - these daises (Shastas) don't smell good at all.)

"YOU LIKE A MONDAY? ....

.... Me either."  -  The Princess

Satyr Comma (?)

PRETTY WOMAN ...

"Yuppers!  ME!"  -  Zoey the Beyond Beautiful!

"Of Course! 

(Gladiolus are blooming - love 'em!)  Also enjoyed the variety of comments and give and take the past few days.  Sticks and stones may ... oh, you know!  Have a good weekend.  It's going to be a pretty one here."  -  RG the Wordy.

"I'M STAYING OUT OF IT ....

... and RG and his big fat scissors can just leave me alone."  -  The Princess.

"Just a little plucking here and there?  Huh?"  -  RG the Clueless

SHORN

"I am so embarrassed, I could just spit.  How could he do this to me?"  -  Goldie the shamed

"I guess it isn't too good, is it."  -  RG the Scissor Challenged.

MORE WINNIE ....

"Maybe my fans are all up there."  -  Winston the Still Perplexed

HOUSE - OVER.

"What the hey!  Did I miss an earthquake or something?"  -  Winston the Perplexed.

Lorquin's Admiral?

HOT

... for us.  lo 80's Saturday and Sunday.  Better Monday.

Yes, he is plugged in, but he is turned off - cool on floor.

"I just took off my sweater for the day!"  - Clever Benji.

"WE HAVE A WINNER! ...

... it's Karen!  (Chico's toesys, BL's pie, and RG's cobbler) ... good work everyone else though!"  Racer - the Cutest!"

"Funny story .. we were checking out of Costco the other day.  (Costco is a discount warehouse store if you don't have one.  Another of those odd Seattle-area get-rich inventions!)  Nicely dressed older gent in front of us with a cartful of stuff including a nice big bottle of Jack Daniels!  (Washington just passed a law to allow private stores, instead of state stores, to sell liquor.)  All of a sudden he started putting his stuff from the conveyor belt back in his cart but the clerk stopped him and they conversed and pointed and waved their arms and I heard the clerk say "Nathan can just go grab that for you" so checkout proceeded.  Right now Nathan comes back with a 42" flat-screen TV in the box over his shoulder and adds it to the checkout and that was that!  Maybe he was headed to an Olympic watch-and-drink party and it was BYO ....!

Remember when you got YOUR first TV?  Hoo boy .... 

Finally some pretty, short, full, long-lasting daises for your weekend enjoyment.  We are going to get hot for a couple days." 

RG the Reporter ....

TWO FOR ONE DAY!

One.)  Whose feet.  Chico or Zoey?

Two.)  Dueling chefs at our place in blueberry season.  Who made the pie and who made the cobbler?

"SHE'S A PAINTED LADY ....

"Excuse me?  I am no such thing.  I am Agouti.  Painted lady - hmpffff. Thump.  You take ME for a hussy?"  -  Princess the Sweet

"Me either!  I'm a Red Admiral.  It's my cousin you are looking for."

"We have few butterfly types in Western Washington and I do not know them well either.  Am I right on this one?"  -  RG the Scientist

"GOLDIE. IF IT'S THE VET ....

.... tell them I'm not here."  -  Benji the Sly

"No she didn't throw me out.  She cleaned a closet!"  -  RG the Improving

NOT A BUNNY TO BE SEEN ...

"BL harvests only the BEST wild clover.

She hand prunes away the old parts!

Why? I don't even LIKE clover!"  -  KB the Handsome

BLACK AND YELLOW

A black hole developing in Racer's galaxy.

Pretty pale-yellow hollyhocks in the garden.

"I tripped on some uneven sidewalk in a foot race on Saturday and did quite a number on hands, elbows, hip and right shoulder.  I did arise and continue on to win my age group (the other guy was really slow!) before getting medical assistance.  But, I am a bit on injured reserve as far as heavy lifting - for a few days - so that is why the cryptic remarks.  NO - the bunnys are not being abused.  In fact they are spoiled rotten - just go ahead and ask them.  Well - OK - maybe not that but ....."  -  RG the Hurting

"WINSTON LIKES ZOEY! ...

... Winston likes Zoey!  I'm telling Chico!  I'm telling Chico!"  -  RG the Trubble-maker.

Squash blossom!  Pretty!  Too bad no squash yet.  I can't even get a zucchini to come on there.

"Geez RG - you can buy them for 25 cents.  Folks give them away.  Try more exotic stuff."  -  Zoey the Critic.

A PRINCESS'S TAIL!

"I could have told you that - if I had been asked"  -  Chico the Expert

"It is her tail - I checked after taking the picture.  I have no idea how she was laying in that box - but she scrambled up when I peeked under the blanket!  Nice work everybody!" 

QUIZ -

What and Who?

"RATS - I'M GROUNDED ....

... the tide must be out.  The Old Crow Traveler is bottomed out.  Hey Benji - you got water over there?"  "Nary a drop Racer.  I think it might be November now before we float again."

The Super BL climbing rose with some daisys.

STILL LIFE WITH ...

... Goldie!

Beautiful Goldie with our beautiful King RG lilies that friends brought us from The Netherlands several years ago.

"Harvested the garlic yesterday - almost 130 bulbs I bet!  Susanville and Red Inchelium - very hard to tell apart. Both "soft neck" so they are easy to braid and they store well.  I have them hanging up to dry for about 6 weeks - then braid."  -  RG the Stinky!

"LIKE I SAID ...

...  here's my best!"  -  Benji the Handsome

"Here is the hops on July 21.  It has gone up and slid back a lot - quite a thick bunch.  I can't remember when it flowers and don't know when/how to harvest.  A neighborly beer-maker is going to do that." - RG the Observer

"A LITTLE DAB'L DO YA! ...

... I'll give ya the full frontal on Monday!" - Benji the Coy

"And here is MY treat for BL since so many said I owe her.  I also dug up three nice Yukon Gold potatos from the garden to bake along with the bird, and we had fresh garden peas too.  It was pretty good - hers are better - but not bad for an old dog!"  -  RG the Chefy