My favorite thing about summer (aside from watching cute fountain babies downtown) is produce. I picked a ton of raspberries from our patch last night, and I know we’re going to miss a lot of them when we’re away. Oh well; at least the neighborhood birds will have plenty of antioxidants in their diet. We’ve got nice blossoms on the zucchini, the tomatoes are (mostly) growing up big and strong, and I bet the onions are getting close to ready.

We have some sweet potatoes in, but I have no idea how/when to harvest those. I think of them as a fall crop. Should we wait till September/October?

I talked to my parents last night, and they had homegrown tomatoes with dinner. My dad has a greenhouse that he uses to give some plants a head start, and apparently they got a tomato very early. I am jealous of them, but at least we’ll be home in August this year. The last two years we were on vacation in August, and a lot of our tomatoes rotted on the ground (but at least the neighborhood birds got plenty of lycopene).

It’s nice we have such healthy birds. We heard a really loud owl the other night, but I don’t think he got so big and strong from plants.

ALSO:  Amy Winehouse sounds a lot like Lauryn Hill, but they sure don’t look alike.  I think Lauryn is hotter but Amy is more interesting-looking.  What do you think?