Tip Toeing Between the Raindrops

Seems like we can't get more than a day or two of dry weather at a time.  The garden is getting planted...slowly...but nothing is really growing.  The tomatoes and peppers in planters on the deck have been practicing their back stroke...the pots have been flooding!!  The only healthy crop we have so far is mosquitoes!  and there are too many of them!

Jeff had another procedure on his back this past Monday.  This time, after locating the nerves with the  fluoroscope, hollow tubes were inserted and radio frequency waves were transmitted cutting the nerves. The results may last for 12-18 months.  So far the pain level has been quite low and manageable...hope it continues.

We've been getting some interesting 'stuff' at garage sales.  This week we used the old fashion, hand-cranked meat grinder Jeff got a couple of weeks ago and made some hamburg.  We had gotten a couple of nice big pieces of top round on sale at Hannaford.  Jeff had the butcher cut them into 1" pieces that cook up perfectly on our Ronco rotisserie.  This week we pressure canned some of 

those pieces and put some of them... and the fatty scraps...thru one of the meat grinders. Our hamburg came out fantastic!  Have to do it again.

With all the rain I've gotten quite a bit of knitting done. I finished my ladies  summer top...really a tank top...in a cotton/acrylic blend.  Very silky.  And another baby set, this time in pink and white with a white hat decorated  with 2 pink flowers. It will be nice  if they sell...fast!

(6/15/13-the monitor on my PC has a problem so all photos will be added later.) Photo added 6/17