One end of my garden is in the shade of our biggest (the Grandfather) pecan tree. I have tomatoes, banana peppers, and green beans in that area. By watering every other day I have been able to keep them alive and producing a little. The green beans are the second planting - the first planting got washed away back in the spring. They look good, and are just now starting to bloom, so, it looks like I will have fall beans. The tomatoes are producing small fruit but at least I am getting some. The peppers are going gang-busters! Mark and I both like banana peppers. We eat them on bread & butter sandwiches. I like to munch on them with just about everything.
For lunch today I had the last of the okra I picked a few days ago. I love to eat okra but OMG I hate to pick it. If you have never picked okra, it is like picking stinging nettle (have you ever been stung by a nettle?) I have to put on gloves and a long sleeve shirt to pick okra and so far this summer I have not been able to coax myself into doing that but a couple of times. Maybe this evening I will get brave :)

The weather forecast says we will be getting a break in our temperatures this weekend and the first of next week. It will be down in the 90's instead of in the 100's.... I'll take it.

We have had 100+ and no rain for about 3 or 4 weeks. Actually I don't think we have had rain since the 4th of July. The grass in my yard is brown and crunchy, not the way I like it to look.

Oh, well, that's just the way it is in Oklahoma. Now this winter when we are having mild temperatures and NO snow (and NO BUGS) I will be braggin' on our state.

Hope you guys are staying cool.