Lord It's Hot-What's A Gardener To Do?

Alright, I haven't been posting this month.  One little post in the month of July, it's just pathetic really and now here it is August already. In my defense, there truly isn't much to see in the garden right now.  The lack of rain and the ridiculously high humidity has every poor little plant in a state of shock.  This gardener has made an attempt to keep it watered and cleaned up, but I'm having to wait until 6:30 each evening and even then I'm sweating buckets 10 minutes into it.  We've givin up on those moments I adore, sipping sweet tea in the porch rockers, grilling out on the deck, morning coffee in the garden, I hate to wish for winter, but Fall would be awesome!  I know, I know, QuityerBelliachin!!

Yesterday we got rain..hooray!!  You cannot believe how truly happy the garden is, I swear I heard a collective sigh of relief coming from that direction.  This morning I wandered out to take a look see, hoping I could get a bit of much needed garden work done-Lord you'd of thought I was standing in a tropical rain forest it was so humid.  I'm not kidding..look at this picture--

I just couldn't figure out why the heck I couldn't see anything on the screen, then I realized the lens was completely fogged up..uggh!

This is what I was trying to take a picture of --

Aren't they just the cutest?  This is the reason I usually let the garden look a bit messy, if had pruned out the not so pretty susans these little guys would've missed out on breakfast. 

So, what does a gardener do when it's just too danged hot to garden? 

Well one garden is  flourishing, the vegie garden!  I've been cooking and canning--peach jam, bread and butter pickles, homemade tomato sauce, fried okra, green beans galore, yummy squash casserole, if it's ready for harvest I find something to do with it!  It's been a healthy eating bonanza around here!  Of course, there has also been a lot of sharing the bounty with friends and neighbors, after all that's the southern way!   In that spirit of sharing I'll be trying to set up a recipes page this week and will start out by posting some of our favorite "From the Garden" recipes.  Look for it to be up sometime this month, until then stay out of the heat and Happy Gardening!!