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Gardens.  Flowers.  Veg.  Poppies.

Daisies.  Poppies.  Sunflowers.  Ferns.

Tomatoes.  Serious tomatoes.  like manic tomatoes actually.  This is one plant!  and I planted 6 of them this year...(last year 8 plants yielded 2 handfulls of fruit).

Onions (Walla Walla, purple, green). Pumpkins. Carrots.  Beets.  ... and those flippin poppies are EVERYWHERE!

New garden beds are in at the beach (thanks to Debbie's planning!).  Mom and Dad's beach.  She would be soooo pleased with this!  The idea was that dad would go out in the garden for a couple of hours a day and weed, tweek, thin, water, fertilize (we must discourage fertilizing those tomatoes!)  And he does.... just not for the hours that we had hoped... :)  But, how much fun is it when we visit him and can get into that garden? tons.
On Monday when the fam was together (most of us) to attend the 'tradition'.....

we sat just chairs away from our regular spot... but got the BEST parking spot so that we could wait in the back of the truck while the parade got organized.  so fun!

New Sisters and New Brothers

                                                             

After the parade.. which was one of the best that we had been to btw.  We went back to the beach to have a BBQ.  We walked out on the sand bars, touched the marker, saw a crazy big jelly fish, saw flat fish, watched Smiley swim..  a very entertaining few hours!
Then for dinner...??? we (Tanya mostly) made salad.  100% out of the garden!    lettuce (2 types), carrots, green onions, purple onions, walla walla onions.  picked and plated in 20 minutes.

This scarf was a tricky one for mom.  Feathered yarn (what was I thinking?!)  got a little nasty at moments (just imagine this stuff wrapped around the wheels of her chair....not pretty!)