Holy Crap, the summer is almost over...

I don't know why I'm surprised that the summer has, once again gotten away from me. It hasn't been all that eventful, but the season flew by faster than Miley Cyrus saying yes to dancing like a skank on the Video Music Awards. (That was my 40+ year old voice speaking). Anyway, when last we spoke I had been explaining my love/hate relationship with landscaping. For the most part everything has survived the summer after my careful love and attention. The thorn in my side hasn't been my lack of a green thumb, but more the battle with what became my arch nemesis....the rabbits. Those little bleepity...bleep..bleep...bleepity, gosh darn bleepity....bleep....bleep God's creatures found themselves a smorgasboard of deliciousness from almost every last thing I put in the ground. After several sprays and granules, many episodes of me flinging open the back door, running, flailling my arms and screaming like a mad man to send them scurrying from the yard, only to turn, once safely on the other side of the fence to stare and look at me like I was, indeed a lunatic. I found myself standing at the kitchen window singing (in my best Elmer Fudd voice) "kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit". We have lapsed now into a somewhat blissful coexistence and now I await the ripening of the (what looks like at least 100) tomatoes. So I think my landscaping/gardening this year would at least get a passing grade.
In other summer news....
I drove to Denver the end of June to make a wedding cake for my friends, Mike & Elena. Shawn and I took some day trips to Oakbrook for some shopping at Oakbrook Center and IKEA. We also spent a couple days in St. Louis where we visited the Art Museum, History Museum, Botanic Gardens, Cathedral Bascillica along with a little more shopping. We also had some great meals...one of which was at a place called Franco.
It was so delicious. You can see pictures from the trip on my facebook page. Yesterday we took a trip to Peru (IL) to the antique mall and I found some really cool 1950's enamelware photo developing trays.  
I think they will make really great trays, but I'm also thinking about other things to use them for. ..stay tuned.
So, I guess the the upside to the dwindling summer season is that my favorite season of the year is next on deck. So if I have to say good bye to summer at least we have Fall to look forward to.
night night
greg