First of all I want to give a shout out to ma Doge...Happy Birthday Kylie!!

It has gotten pretty dang hot here. We went from really mild nice weather with some rain to super dry and super hot which makes working out in the garden pretty dang intense. Today we put up tomato steaks. These are not your mother's tomato steaks...these things are like 6.5' tall. Seriously we needed a step ladder to get up high enough to reach them. We were using an 8 lb sledge hammer I borrowed/stole from the blacksmith shop. I hit my fingers twice trying to do this which is more times than I've hammered myself while blacksmithing. I got my fingers caught between the post and the hammer...one finger is skinned and the other bruised...but nothing at all serious. For the finger I scraped, my boss Liz who knows everything about plants, had me chew up some plantain leaves and spit them on to my finger and then wrapped it in duct tape. I must say it worked pretty well...the only thing is the plantain leaves stain your skin brown, so now I have brown finger which is a little awkward.

Then this afternoon we helped to set up the May Pole. It was very colorful and will be pretty cool to see in action this Saturday. I've never seen a May Poll and its business before.

Speaking of this weekend...We have more weekend classes, Mom and Dad you know what's up. I got into my first choice which was portrait painting. We have a live model whether or not they or going to be nude is to be determined.

As ever things are busy busy here.