It's summer!!

A bit early this year but summer it is! The portable air conditioning came out today so it feels much better now!! So far we've had two days of 90 or above and tomorrow will make a third before it goes down to more reasonable Northwest temps. I think this is one of the earlier 3 days running of over 90 if tomorrow does indeed happen! But the garden is loving it! :) Here in Portland we'll typically get around 15 days over 90 for the whole summer. If tomorrow is over 90 that's a pretty good start!

For my work break yesterday I went out and got my pots planted. I used my new fertilizer so I took some before pictures to see what happens. They're posted below. I did get lots of work done yesterday, of which a lot of it was 3 years of receipts for a client. There's a few left to finish but most are done! They need sorted since there's a decent amount of cash receipts that can be used for expenses. It looks like I may be buying out a lady that's going to go to work for someone else. She doesn't have a lot of clients but it looks like just enough to fill the space that I have available. We'll see what happens this next week with the contract! Hopefully by August I'll have a good sense of where I am at! I've made many, many connections over the last 4 years and I've got to say they're starting to bring some business in. There's one guy who is a regional manager of a franchise that I've talked with off and on for 3 years. I think it's 3 years anyway! He bought one down in our area and just called me up a week and a half ago asking for bookkeeping help so that was really exciting!! I'm anxious to see where it all will go! But once again I need to be really, really careful that it doesn't take over my life!!

Fuchsia's 

Basil (This pot is on it's last legs!!)

Parsley, basil and lemon thyme

Geraniums 

Stevia

Trailing Geraniums 

First pick, 2 day's later I picked two more containers. Yum!!!