I'm off for 4 weeks

 And it is lovely! I got everything done before last two days, so I managed to actually work shorter days.  It's been hot and hotter, and I'm happy we still have the swimming pool. My boss was a bit bored about it, every Teams begun with a question "So you were swimming right?"

Kids are bored, we've had major mosquito attack and outside was a no go zone for two weeks, now we have huge horse flies. Ah the wonders of nature!

Poor 'Suma, look at her head!

Gardening has been slow, because it's been so hot and windy. And thundery. We've had more thunderstorms this June than during all summer ever before. My polytunnel has bravely kept it's stand, it got a bit ripped, but I need a new cover anyway, it's fragile and disintegrating. It's plastic, it will not last forever.

Last summer was misery for my corn, but this year seems so much mire promising. I have more than 20 healthy plants! I did plant some bean seedlings between cornplants, and few courgettes/pumpkins, I hope that three sisters really benefit each others.

There are garlics at the end of this frame. I cut scapes already, I don't remember they have been this early before.

Old man has been splitting wood in out back yard and I've been stacking. 

This might be enough for the winter,  we still have some logs stacked at the wood store left. 

These are huge, there were six these massive ones. They are so big they can't be split by splitting maschine, they just don't fit in it. So old man has old time tools, hammer, wedges and an axe.

He agreed it was enough for one day, and I bet mum agreed on that.

So far I've picked rocket from the polytunnel. And three strawberries. There is salad leaves ready to be harvested. I'm bad at growing strawberries, but there's a plenty of runners this summer, too. So we'll have strawberries next summer, too.