A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words.

This child grows larger by the day. It happens over night while we're sleeping, as best I can figure.

Other things seem to grow in leaps and bounds over night as well...

They're finally getting ripe, one by one.

The zucchini sneakily hid its first squashes deep in the leaves, and they got super large before I finally discovered them.

They taste better when they are smaller, but oh well. We will still eat them and enjoy!

Everything in my garden is growing huge! The corn is there on the left. Since I took this picture last week, the corn in the back on the right has now grown up tall as well. So have the squashes planted back there. The zucchini is in front next to the corn, see it? It's now covered in baby zucchinis and big orange blooms. There are also string beans hidden in there, a ton of them. They are now heavy with beans. I am going to harvest them in a couple days, and then they will grow more beans!

And towards the back there is a mess of tomatoes--big ones, cherry ones, and yellow stripers. Okra is back there too. There's a row of sugar snap peas along the chain link fence, you can't see them because they're behind the tomatoes.

The strawberries are down there in the very front (bottom) of the picture. They aren't growing any more berries until next June.

Just to my left, out of the picture, there are 3 wild black berry bushes which will grow berries next year, and at my feet (safely outside of the fence because they take over) there are some pumpkin plants. There are also raspberry plants at the far end of the garden, along the chain link, just outside of the garden fence.

I also have a 4x4 foot garden box on the side of the house with peppers and more tomatoes in it.

I also have five raspberry plants growing elsewhere in the yard that will make berries next year, and a blueberry plant which takes 2-3 years to make berries at first, and my pear tree out front. If we move, I plant to dig up most of the bushes and take them with me. Shhhh.

I also have a 4x4 foot garden box on the side of the house with 3 kinds of peppers and different kinds of tomatoes in it.

Goofy picture of me. The wide angle lens causes distortion.

My back yard is looking a little white trash lately. Oh well, worse things have happened.

You can see the garden way back in the left corner next to that white chair and blue ball.

The chicken pen really needs tidying up. The ducks are molting, hence the thousands of white feathers coating the ground.

The only people who can see in my back yard are the neighbors behind me, and they spend half their time on their farm in the cabin they built, which has no electricity or running water. So I don't think they view my chicken pen as an eyesore...

Those are only some of my birds, eating up some scratch grains I tossed to them. And apparently a long piece of twine!?! Where did that come from?

Here are the rulers of the backyard.

Hank loves to trick me into thinking he's lazily basking in the sun. Then when I turn my back he climbs the fence and runs all over the neighborhood at top hound speed, peeing on every post and treeing every squirrel. Then he comes home and takes a nap on the front porch.

Abby reminds me of the term "dog days of summer" because well...she spends all her time in the back yard enjoying long sunny summer days.

She's such a funny pup.