This latest heat wave (at one point the heat index may have been 112!) just keeps extending, so I just keep plowing through it.  Or hoeing, would be more accurate.  I planted another section of veg garden with more greens, or I should say reds–red mustard, red cabbage, and red/rainbow beets.  It should be very colorful, if nothing else.  I relocate cardboard (for keeping weeds down) as I go.  In general, my goal is to clean up and improve Avdi’s surroundings, one area at a time, as long as I can keep going.

Sometimes as I’m working, hummingbirds come right up to me and hover, looking at me for a long moment.  Those are the moments that make it all worthwhile, watching wildlife like chipmunks, goldfinches, and many other bird and butterfly species being drawn to the food and shelter provisions in the landscape, and feeling at home.  Not to mention humans!