Garden - The weather has been a bit cooler in June than it was in May, thank goodness. The zucchini that I had to replant is coming along fine. I've also planted Butternut squash and Acorn squash. Still have a variety of Pattypan squash to put out, but since I want to use that mostly as young small bite-size squash, it's ok that it's going in soooo late. My peas and beans are up. My container tomatoes (heirloom varieties) that I keep up near the house are all looking good, at least one of them is starting to set fruit. I still have some plants to set out. I'm also working on weeding and cleaning up the flower beds out front. I've got tons of irises to move. My older beds of daffodils and tulips didn't produce anything this year, I think they got crowded out by the weeds. (My energy levels are still not what I'd like them to be...... and I'm afraid that I'd rather put my limited energy to working with edible plants than with ones that are just pretty.) I have some strawberries to harvest (first year plants and I picked off most of the blossoms, but some escaped me), rhubarb that needs to be cut, currants and blueberries are starting to come on too.

Crafts - Lately I've been working on a crocheted afghan most of the time. It's single crochet, using two strands of yarn, one white, the other, whatever comes to hand in my bag of small balls of scrap yarn (left from other projects). I hate to waste anything and there isn't enough left in these small balls for even the smallest of projects. Other than that, I've got a couple of cross-stitch projects going that I work on when the spirit moves me. The other thing I'm doing, craftwise, is deconstructing old blue jeans. I plan on using the material to make ground pad/covers to be put in the troop trailer for my Boy Scouts to use (when/if they fail at the "Be Prepared" part of scouting). I'm lucky. I now have an 'in' with one of the local thrift stores and can buy the jeans that are not in good enough condition to sell to the public for a quarter a pair.