Well, the "13th" started on the 11th and just.got.better. :-/

Phones for about half our street went out on the 11th and weren't
restored until this afternoon. Then, the power went out suddenly this
morning even though a minor storm that blew in had been over and done
for hours. Seems our local power co had a lovely planned outage. If
they'd tried to call to warn us we wouldn't have known. If it was
anything like the last "upgrade" they didn't warn anyone anyway.
*grump*

So, it wasn't raining and the temperature was in the upper 70s with
humidity at only 2000% or thereabouts. So, DH and I decided to check
out the garden and see what was ready to harvest. Lo and behold the
Cubanelle peppers I put in the bed affected by Mysterious Pepper Wilt
had gone crazy. Not only were they not wilted, they had each produced
a large pepper so I picked all three. I have plans for them. We got
a few more blueberries, another cup of blackberries off the back fence
of the garden (and another of those great big Kiowi berries). And the
San Marzano plum tomato plants had three tomatoes ready to grab. Given
that we'd already picked a nice sized tomato off one of the Goliaths,
we were happy to get some tomatoes before July 4. The borage next to
the tomatoes is about a day away from blooming. I can't wait since
I've never gotten them to bloom before some bug or other calamity has
struck.

The cream of today's crop has to be the Dolman Red raspberry. We were
told that no one around here has been able to grow raspberries. We,
in our clueless innocence, have had better luck. I got 22 berries
from it today alone. In the past three days I've gotten 55 gorgeous
ruby red and ripe raspberries off ONE plant that was transplanted less
than three months ago. It's supposed to be more heat tolerant than
the average raspberry and I can't recommend it enough. For anyone in
hot southern climes who want to try a raspberry, do what we did: plant
it where it gets afternoon shade. We have a large tree that's west of
where we planted the Dolman and it seems to absolutely love it. It's
shaded at the hottest part of the day and otherwise gets full sun from
the east and south. It's a sweet and tasty raspberry too and I'm not
even a big raspberry fan. I think I'll have to make a chocolate
cheesecake and adorn the top with these babies. Yum.

Time to go outside and marvel at the full moon.