Good Grief.  5 weeks since I wrote.  Well, there is alt to write about so here go the fingers.  We spent 2 wonderful weeks in Copper Harbor Mi. camping at Fort Wilkins with the Jared family just next door in a matching Alaskan Cabela Tent.  What fun to have the grandsons come for pancakes every morning. The weather was perfect.  Air conditioned outsides for 99% of the time.  Sunny, cloudy, partly both, rain, no rain, wind, thunder, lightening. We got everything but snow in small amounts at the right time.  What fun.  I read, slept, knitted, read, slept, knitted talked to Leslie on the porch and then did everything again.  Ate, pancakes, pasties, rice cakes with peanut butter, ice cream, soup, and then did it all over again.  Microwave came in handy, electric skillet was used and paper plates every day!  We took two days to get to CP and two days to get home.  Madison Wi, is a good halfway place to stop.  It's still a long 7 hr day no matter how we try to make it shorter.  And...home again to a wonderful garden gift all in full color with monarch butterflies greeting us.  What a wonderful surprise.  I'm inviting friends to come see.  It's the best flower garden and vegetable garden I have ever had.  The only thing that would make it better if the rabbit family had not arrived. And it would appear that something has happened to them now since I've not seen them since I arrived home.  They love red beet tops and carrot tops and broccoli leaves.  Our tomatoes are WONDERFUL  Doug and I just stand in the garden and eat Jasper tomatoes.  They are cherry tomatoes that are taller then me.  I'll need to get a ladder in the garden to get to some of them.  We also have wonderful tomatoes for BLT's.  Cabbage head is in the refrigerator and Egg Plant is ready to cut.  This week I did some cleaning up in both gardens.  Some of the zennia's are taller then me.  That's over 5 feet.  A lot of them are staked and I'll need to do more staking.  Black eyed Susans are blooming everywhere with lots of other interesting flowers doing their best.  What a wonderful sight to see outside the kitchen window.  I am blessed.  Well, that's all for now.  Signing off.  LR