Yes, We Have No Tomatoes.

One of my father's gardening goals was to pick a ripe tomato from his garden by the Fourth of July. Well, with less than two weeks until the Fourth, I just don't see that happening for us. Admittedly, we were very late in getting our Topsy Turvy tomato planted, and the first one didn't make it. This is our second one and we're happy to see that we have 3 yellow blossoms. Still a very strange looking way to grow a tomato, but time will tell. We're hoping for a ripe tomato by Labor Day.

Quack, Quack

It was a rainy day here in Big D yesterday. When the rain finally subsided, Scott went to check out the water level in the creek and discovered we had two visitors -- a pair of mallard ducks were having a great time in the creek in our backyard. So that was the big news from Ovilla, Texas, this past weekend. I'm also attaching a couple photos of some blooming plants in our yard. The weather was absolutely perfect today, but I know those 100+ temperatures are right around the corner.

The King Has Left the Building

With only two weeks left on the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, Scott and I joined our friends, Kay and Ivan Wilson, on Saturday, May 9, on a tour of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit. Unfortunately, the King Tut mask shown on the attached brochure was not a part of the exhibit, but there were lots of other artifacts on display. And there were still crowds. The King Tut exhibit has been here for several months but this past weekend was the last, and the King has now left the building. Kay and Ivan were in town celebrating their 26th anniversary, and it was nice to see them. We enjoyed celebrating with them at a nice dinner at Jasper's in Plano on Saturday night and for breakfast on Saturday before they headed back to Elgin, Texas.

LOOK AT OUR NEW . . . .

CEDAR FENCE, not the two-week old Corvette (that belonged to a friend who was visiting). The termites finally destroyed a lot of the previous owner's split rail fence, so we decided it was time for a new split rail fence and supposedly, termites do not eat cedar.

Our neighbors have done some beautiful landscaping in their front yard. I've attached a short slideshow of that as well.