Friday Smiles 530: Back to the herb garden (sort of)

 

It's Friday, which means it's time to join Friday Smiles, hosted by Annie (at A Stitch in Time). Let's visit Annie and the other wonderful ladies who also share their smiles each Friday. 

These are from the veggie garden. The first of my cherry tomatoes and bell pepper.

 That pepper is as big as my hand. I've never harvested one that large before.

Now it's time to head to the herb garden.  Some of you read that the reason I'm so far behind visiting is because I had a flood in my basement.  I had to use the shop vac and mop the floor and walls.  I then wiped everything down with bleach so I didn't get mold.  You might be able to see all the rain that is puddled in the herb garden.

Much to my surprise, I found this bunny rabbit sitting on my newly formed mound that I will spread out with a rake once the mud dries a bit.  I couldn't believe how long it sat there while I took a few photos.  I shooed it away two days before and now it's back to munch on my herbs again.

 

Somehow I scared it, so it ran away, but not too far.

 

I wanted to show the trench I dug on Wednesday before the rains returned on Thursday.  We got over 3 inches of rain Tuesday night and over an inch more on Wednesday.

I hoped I had dug far enough because I am a bit tired of shoveling.  Note where the bunny has landed.  Look for him above the "lo" in my watermark.

I was telling my neighbor about my "woes" with my flooded basement.  He said he had just the thing to help me.  Imagine my surprise when he came back carrying this hose that he attached to my down spout.

You can see it goes behind my herbs

 

all the way past the trees on the far right.

I can tell it is definitely time to cut back my geranium now that it has flowered.

Then I noticed the wind had knocked over a pot on my back table.  More clean up because of this rain was in order.

One thing I also did before the rains came was clean up the growth around the fence out back.  Unfortunately, it is time to mow again.  If only the rain would stop.

And now a few cat memes:

 

That's it for me this week.  Please join Bleubeard and me at Friday Smiles.  It goes without saying, but we will anyway, please start your weekend with a big huge smile.