My sister is still in town and this morning she was practicing her bagpipes while I started weeding my small overgrown vegetable garden. She gets a lot of attention from people driving by as she plays her pipes in my yard.

My garden is totally overgrown. I don’t know when this happened. Possibly during this past week as I’ve been driving down to AA ? Or maybe it was before that when I didn’t want to think about the weed population and hoped it would somehow get weeded without me. Or maybe it was a combination of all of the above.

Nevertheless, I needed to get to it today, and even then waited too long into the afternoon, so that the work was hot and miserable. Lesson learned again: Weed a little every morning, or you’ll need a bagpiper to accompany your groans of dismay.

The good news is that under all of this were a few green beans that the groundhog didn’t eat, a few peas, some chard and even some tiny cherry tomatoes! And of course my parsley, rosemary, thyme, basil and dill. Really. It’s all in there!