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We had a cantaloupe tonight - from our garden! It was yummy. There are several more out there still ripening, and the vines are still blooming. We should have quite a few more if we just keep watering the plants. (Our front yard is very sunny, now that the pine trees are gone.) I think the seeds for these came from a melon we ate back in the spring.
Someone stole a spaghetti squash out of our garden last week. It was getting pretty large, and it was nearly ripe. A smaller squash and several far-from-ripe gourds disappeared too. (Gourds are not good eating.) Someone also lost a hair comb in our yard, snagged by a dwarf Maple branch. (Sorry, no hair in the comb with a root for DNA. As if we could get the police to bother with that in the first place....) We think it may have been the construction guys, working on the street repair. (Our street has been closed since mid June.) Mostly the work has been a block away from our house, but last Thursday/Friday they were digging up the pavement across from our house and Monday/Tuesday they put in sidewalks across the street. We're hoping they'll all be gone soon.
We took a stroll down to the new culvert this evening. There is a hard surface through the whole area now, and the road is flanked with sidewalks. Before, our block of the closure had sidewalk just on our side, and there were no sidewalks in the next block. The neighborhood civic association has been talking about getting sidewalks on this road for years. It's a busy road, but it was originally a railroad, so it has a lot of cuts and fills (making it one of the least hilly routes in the area) but is NARROW (because that's all a train needs). Adding sidewalks would have been a major project, since there wasn't any land beside the road over the culvert before. (The next block, beyond the construction, turns into a narrow cut. There's still no sidewalks there.) The new part looked quite narrow to us tonight, but it was probably narrow there before and we never really noticed. The surface still needs paving and striping, but the road might be open by September. We were walking with a co-worker and his wife, who happened along after our perusal of the garden. He's also a cyclist, and it turns out they live about a block and a half from us.