Phyl & Lew: Garden Pics as promised

Here is our backyard on July 6, one week after the wedding. Too bad the kids couldn't have delayed for three weeks, as this is what

happens by July 26:

The tent you see in the background is the tent we used for the wedding. My brother, an engineer, figured out how to move it from the lawn to the car park without having to take it completely apart. Four people were able to "walk" it through the gate, post by post. It is now a great place for Lew to park his car. However, the last couple of weeks he has been using it as a cover while he works at re-vamping the trailer. Due to some overloading by his buddy, a wheel bearing fried and chewed up the axle. So a new axle was ordered and new tires were installed. Then the box and floor were completely torn off and will be replaced with new plywood. Since it's down to the bare frame, Lew has scraped and sanded and prepared all the metal for a fresh coat of paint (the color is up for further discussion since I discovered the plan is Robin's egg blue!) Today we pulled new wiring through the conduit, and tomorrow there will be further wiring and new tail lights and lenses will be installed. All in all, it will be right back to "new" again. This is a job Lew wants to get done before he goes for surgery.

Meanwhile I have torn out all the bean and pea vines and hope this will make some room for the cucumbers to crawl. I also pulled out some of the flowers that are now finished and going to seed. Here are some of the closeups--Lew is getting really good with his camera!