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[Catrin]

Crossing fingers for Henry Cat and you!

[indysteel]

Thanks, ladies. He has a new water fountain and catnip toys waiting for him when he returns. I hate when he's not here. He's my baby.

[Crankin]

57 years of having summer vacation is coming to an end.
This feels weird. I have never not been on an academic schedule.

[DebW]

I'm on the anti-academic schedule. Working 2 jobs and 6 days per week Apr-Sept when the bike shop is open. Though I'm taking 1 1/2 weeks in late June to help my parents move. Need to think about a winter vacation later.

Local strawberries are ripe. I've got a quart from the farmers' market. Yum.

[OakLeaf]

My strawberries are bearing!

Last year I transplanted five wild strawberry plants from a corner of our woods, where they were choked with poison ivy. Between the shade, the cover hiding them from pollinators, and the critters, we'd got exactly one berry in the 14 years we've lived here. I put them in a corner of my garden. The plants grew like crazy, bloomed like crazy, didn't set a whole lot of fruit (not sure why - not enough sun? soil fertility), but some. Yummmmmmm.

[lph]

ooh, strawberries are the best My son has a healthy little row of them in the back garden, assisted by a bunch in large pots that are forever in the way. But they taste fantastic.

[Owlie]

I love strawberries. The couple years we tried growing them ourselves, the critters got to them. We got berries, just not for long enough to actually pick them.