Construction win and garden harvesting.

Took a week off from the bench project after having several people look at it. We finally just took all the back boards down from the corner and started over. Super simple solution to a problem that we were over complicating. Need to sand and stain and it's done:

Ended up only adding an angle on the left boards, worked like magic.

Finished with assembly.

There, all that banging our heads against the wall and as expected it was something simple.

The zucchini bread fail ended up being more of a diet and I've lost around 5 pounds and feel so much better on the trail. I picked up some new running shoes today and spent this past weekend at the Pikes Peak marathon and ascent rubbing elbows with amazing runners. Inspiring to say the least, I have a lot of work to do but it's going to be amazing. I was missing some inspiration and I've got it in buckets now. I've already decided to run the Pikes Peak ascent next year, and am edging towards the marathon... what's 9 hours of running up and down Pikes Peak.....

We harvested a quart of green beans and a dozen tomatoes from the garden along with the usual zucchini and squash. Cucumbers are in full growth mode and picked the first on on Saturday. I'm already designing plans for everything next year, my thought process this year didn't plan on having everything grow so large. I still haven't found any at the public garden that are even close to the same size.

Pumpkins are hidden but growing, I stopped the vine spread to help them.

Cucumbers in the back and still blooming.

I have hot peppers, peppers, beans, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, scallions and radishes. Soon I will add corn, watermelon, and pumpkins into that mix and have a lot of things canned and frozen for the winter. There is a lot I can add next year but I need to make sure it's things we will eat, I don't want to hand out food unless I'm overloaded with it.

I'm enjoying the cooler weather that August always brings and work has slowed down back to normal. The garden is really enjoying the cooler nights and we are both enjoying the fresh produce. I've gotten several hundred dollars in production from the garden with a lot more to come. What I am growing this year I have seeds for the next 2 years in storage and will add a couple more. I've got some survival type seed vaults so I easily have 6+ years of garden just in case.

I'm behind on blog reading, hopefully I'll get some reading done eventually.