I had a friend come over and pick raspberries on Thursday morning. On Friday morning I picked and ended up with about 6 cups. I picked this morning and now have a gallon of berries waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Half will probably be frozen and the other half given away.

I roasted an eggplant on the bbq this morning for some Baba Ghanouj. I thought I had some Tahini but the can I had in the cupboard was way past its prime so I will pick some up at the grocery later today. The eggplant is in the fridge with the lemon juice added waiting on the rest of the ingredients. This will be lunch tomorrow.

This morning I also picked the rest of the small round watermelons and about 3 gallons of tomatoes. I only had a couple of melon plants and ended up with about 8 or 10 melons total. Not bad as I did absolutely nothing to them after planting other than splash water on them once or twice. The tomatoes will be canned later today.

I noticed one of the purple figs is almost ripe. mmmm

It is so dry here. Areas around us picked up some rain last week but it went around us. The flowers are wilting and looking pretty dry as are most of the perennials. Unfortunately I can’t afford to water them the way they need. I keep threatening to tap into the gray water for the ornamentals. Perhaps next year I will actually do it.