So far the rain has been significantly less in July compared to June. We are still getting rain often but not continuos day after day. With just the right amount of rain and the warm sunny July days things in our garden are really stating to pop! A few days ago Bonita came back into the house, from her morning check-up walk, with a small collection of our first non-leafy veggies and the announcement that I had better go collect our newly ripe strawberries before the birds or some little bug gets them. She came in with a radish and cucumber, the tiniest broccoli I have ever seen a pepper and a fava bean. Catie cooked up a quick and delicious medley of our new veggies with noodles and lemon thyme so that we could then make our way to Waterville where the Maine international film festival was occurring.
With the warm weather a few new fauna have arrived. The most surprising of which was discovered one night as Catie and I were cooking dinner. We heard the frantic thumping of cat feet then followed by some squeaking. Our assassin cat, Chicken, the one in the earlier picture, had managed to injure a little brown bat so that it could not fly away and was tossing it around the barn as squeaked. The bat was able to avoid chicken enough that we could step in with a pair of gloves and intervene. There are a lot of biting bugs around that we need that bat to eat! We carried the bat up to the cupola in the barn so that he might have a cat free place to rest and heal.
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