Monday

 I don't know why but last night was a short night.  Four hours of sleep is not enough to fill the energy tank so today is peppered with a few tired breaks.  Patience is the word.  Tomorrow should be better.  

I did a garden walk finding a whole lot of evidence the bunny was up to no good.  There were a lot of Zinnia stems on the ground in every bed.  Some even lying on top of the Menard "rabbit off" granules.  It's been a crazy rabbit summer in the Carmel area.  Later in the morning Doug told me about more broken stems just where I had cleaned up the mess earlier in the day.

I found the third mess in the same place in the afternoon.  The zinnia is almost gone. The bunny just gave me an evil look watching me find the evidence of another meal. The tall zinnias have taken a big hit.

I planted more marigold seed and have an urge to pull up plants that have been through the bunny chew but still alive.  I went marigold shopping at Meijers, Habig's and Rosie's buying at Rosie's. Fingers crossed this might have a bit of influence but I'm not putting a lot of faith in this latest effort. 


                Five plants are in this pot.  I love the many shades of gold.  I'll plant them tonight.

        The latest planting of red beets is showing a bit of success.  The chicken wire is in place.  

                    I noticed last night the Monarch was hanging from the top of the cage in a J shape. 

Ready to sleep for a while although a lot of changes are happening.  Just before the Monarch emerges the green color becomes transparent and one can see the color of the Monarch's wings.

We might have a butterfly in a week or more.  I moved the T Swallowtail into the cage with a lot of dill to feast on.  I suspect that there will be more changes soon.  


                                                Another kind of butterfly.  You think?

More messages are coming from the UP.  It seems they are getting around as they usually do.  

On rainy days or if something is needed not found in Copper Harbor, one travels down the road to Calumet. When copper was king more than 100 years ago, the city population was near 55,000.  St. Anns Catholic Church was one of many churches found in the city.  It was decommissioned and in terrible repair until it was restored and used as a civic center now once again open to the public. It's a beautiful building. Today's Calumet has about 2,000 residences. 



I returned gardening books to the library but decided that picking up new ones would happen on another day when the energy silo was a bit fuller. 

So the day has been pretty simple. We'll blame that on those four hours of sleep.  

Now about Adam's fork.  I can make the picture bigger.  When eating breakfast pan cakes, Adam always used a certain fork when eating with us.  We made sure the fork made it to this year's camping experience.  The meal pictured was prepared by Eli on his handy dandy little stove.  Jared and Kimmy ate breakfast at the Grandson's Restaurant just next door.


                                                        It's pan cakes with a fork.

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