We went to The Waterfall again this week; my sister was in town. We found beauty, meaning, and the sandals that Otis has left there last week. So that was good.

It rained some more. That seems to keep happening. I can let my drought trauma hyper vigilance guard down. A little anyway. Maybe.

The crops are recovering nicely from the hail. Perhaps a couple weeks behind where they’d have been sans stoning, but feeling frisky.

At dusk, there is often a chorus of two or three whippoorwills near our windows. It’s such an intense and interesting sound; The farm is the only place we’ve ever heard it. I love that the boys are growing up with it for reasons I can’t explain.

There are still not mosquitoes. I’m not sure what to think about this, but I can’t deny how I feel about it. And that is GREAT, with a little apprehension that I’ll take it for granted, and get acclimated to their absence, and later struggle with the transition back into a world of swarming.

Maybe the whipporrwhirls are eating them all.

inside Box 4

A bunch of Sugar Snap Peas – serve chilled, accompanied by a heat wave or heat dome.

A bit of Snow Peas – they might wanna get with your Thai basil

Green Onions

Broccoli – did you know that Boron is a critical micro-nutrient for plants? It is.

Red Cabbage – we might have finally found a variety that works well for us this year!

Zucchini – so it begins

Micro Mix Microgreens – sunflower, radish, broccoli, red cabbage, kale, amaranth

Kohlrabi – I already told you to peel these, I hope. You could cook em. PIckle em. Let then turn into a shrunken head prop for Halloween, forgotten in the back of your fridge. Choose your own adventure.

Thai basil – stir fry stir fry stirrrrr frrrrrrryyyyyyyy