May 20

I am grateful today to have had Michael and Valerie come over for a visit.  Michael made stuffed smoked jalepeno peppers (peppers of course from the garden), and Valerie made a patriotic layered cake she found a recipe for online.  Both were very tasty.

While in the garden, Michael noticed a black racer had managed to entangle itself within the netting for the cucumber plants.  I had noticed the "black tubing" yesterday, and thought to myself, "what kind of contraption is Clif making now?"  It didn't occur to me to take a closer look!

The snake is now free to roam about the neighborhood and eat whatever rats and mice that are scampering about.