Well the rest of my garden may be leaving something to be desired but my basil plants are marvelous! I friend of ours just loaned us a small food processor so this afternoon I decided to try my hand at pesto sauce. A couple good handfuls of basil leaves, some olive oil, garlic, pine nuts and parmasan cheese and WOW! Think I'll throw some tomatoes and mushrooms on the grill tonight and toss them with some pasta in the pesto sauce for dinner. Hmmm...maybe a little chicken or salmon to go along with it. (Okay, gotta quit talking about it, otherwise it will wind up as and afternoon "snack" instead of dinner )

Well I would love to say that my living room window has new glass and is just waiting to have the final coat of primer added so that it can be rehung tomorrow...but I can't!

The PLAN for the weekend was for me to meet with the contractor who was giving me an estimate on the basement on Saturday and then take a golf lesson. Once that was over I was supposed to go look for replacement glass for the broken pane of glass in the window I was reglazing. What is it they say about "best laid plans"?

It's not the abundant harvest I had hoped for but at least I'm learning enough about gardening to know what I need to change for next year.

Here we go round the mulberry "tree"? I could have sworn that the song went "Here we go round the mulberry bush". Apparently the song author never actually saw the plant. Either that, or I have one hell of a GIANT bush in my back yard.

Well it appears barring any unforeseen natural disaster, my first foray into gardening will be a success. I decided to head back to check and make sure my tomatoes weren