Hoop structure

I made this from materials I already had....leftover pvc pipes from a water project, red fence stakes from the electric fence we took down. The shade cloth I bought. I made a 55 row to shade the lettuce and cool season cole vegetables that I put out for the fall. We are still having 90 degree plus temps, so they definitely need the shade.

Maverick kitty

Snowflake's new fashion

Not much rain

She may not look fast but when she took off like a shot yesterday in the rainstorm, and popped through the fence and we had to chase her across three counties before she was cornered in a thicket of brush and poison ivy, we decided to call her Pistol.

Volunteer watermelon

EVIL hornworm

Updated 9/23/2009: Did some research on this worm and found out that it is a Ceratomia hageni , also known as Hagen's Sphinx or Osage Orange Sphinx. It turns into that really neat moth that flies around like a hummingbird. Couldn't afford to keep these guys around though, because a single one would ravage an entire tomato plant in a day.