Cherry season 2007

Since my last post I've been eating cherries, (Sweet Jesus, I love cherries) doing garden work, chillin' with the dog. It has come to my surprised attention that people actually read this blog. Despite the fact that virtually no one comments here, many have remarked that I have been remiss, if not truant in my posting. Well, this damn laptop is a pain in the ass and has not brought the pleasure and convenience I expected, should I be so inclined or equipped to put thoughts into words. The laptop disconnects from the Web constantly (like right now, for instance) and will not connect while on the front porch which was where I had envisioned using the cursed machine in the first place. Ehhh, I'm grumpy. There are too many things I want to do but the Stamina&Energy bank is overdrawn.
The front porch looks great though, my Mandevilla is blooming like crazy!
We get the late afternoon sun, so the porch is cool and shady in the AM, when I can be found on my glider reading the paper (accompanied by much bitching, moaning, cursing and teeth gnashing) eating grape-nuts (with home-grown blueberries!) and drinking iced coffee while Caramel peruses the dog traffic in an effort to ascertain who is friend or foe, a very arbitrary process which baffles me completely.
I also spend many hours in the garden, of course. It's been all about the weeding. Due to the construction last year, the yard was overrun with striped morning glory, wild asters and oh my god, nut sedge which I swear grows 2" overnight. We finally got our wonderful 6' wood fence enclosing the backyard. Our soil is really bad and in the process of digging holes for the fence posts they dug up tons of clay which we had so strenously covered with good soil. We had to practically start all over again. Poor Steve has already shlepped a ton of new soil. Sadly, many lives, er, plants were lost. I have planted 21 new ones, all young perennials. I also have 1 tomato, 1 cucumber, chives and basil some new strawberries and the aforementioned, source of great pride, blueberry bush which has in it's 9 or so years been ravaged and broken, by telephone company workers countless times. Rat bastards! I found an old picture of one of them STANDING on our old cyclone fence, which over the years broke from such abuse.
I am proud and happy to report that we filed a claim, and filed it again and after 6 years and much persistence Verizon finally reimbursed us for the trampled plants and helped pay for the new fence. Yay.
Another highlight of the season, Morgana, tore herself away from new grandson and came East to visit! We had a fun sleepover with Barbara, Morgana's cousin, my ex-cousin. We did not howl at the moon this time, in fact we had 1/2 drink each and could barely stay awake, but a good time was had by all.These 2 are my very oldest friends. It's shocking to think we met over 40 years ago.
B came over to meet us for lunch one day and brought Andree! Quelle surprise! Andree is a great-grandmother, twice! And her grandson is a professional skydiver!
It was so good to see them, my honeys! I was re-charged with Women Power! We missed you, DJ dear, the other sister of my heart.
I took some really terrible pix, luckily Steve came home for these. If B can ever figure out how to release the pix from her camera, I will post those.
I started Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows yesterday. It's very exciting and scary, don't know if I will survive the suspense.
Caramelly is doing well and we are starting to walk a little further every day.
I really need the exercise- I have a big cherry belly.