This has been a summer of fancy cupcakes and gatherings with friends. Evenings with live Jazz music in the park or outdoor cafe.I am knitting summer lace socks and gardening.
It is very dry here so I am out in the morning at 6 AM watering my garden.
My blue berries are starting to get ripe. I just finished three weeks of picking cherries and making cherry pies and chrisp and making Cherry pancake topping.
I had a bumber crop of Montgomery Cherries
This Yeasrs lettuce crop was fantastic.
Life in Mercer is pleasant. Our weather is mild with daytime highs in the low 80's and 60's at night. No severe storms, forest fires or floods.
The economy seems to be ok. I see have seen some help wanted signs. We have no homeless folks that I know of. There is a new super WalMart coming near our Outlet Mall. There are a lot of houses for sale and prices have dropped but no one wants to move here. Why? To move here you need to be retired or self employed. There are mostly service jobs, health care and education; a lot of our factory jobs left in the 1980's. Its a good life here if you can manage it.
I had a bumber crop of Montgomery Cherries
This Yeasrs lettuce crop was fantastic.
I pulled up most of it except for a the ones I will be leaving to go to seed.
I now have Romano pole beans and cherry tomatoes planted in this space.
