Sunday so Norman cleans the house and  I write the family letters.  I like email but nothing can beat a nice snail mail letter so each week I write to my cousin, Mary Lou, my daughter Patty, my son and his wife and my grandson, Tyler, then I rest, play puzzles or sew for the rest of the day.  Today we went to the garden to see what we need to do this week and to pull a rutabaga for dinner.  I will roast the rutabaga, with sweet potatoes, peas and brussel sprouts.  I always like at least three vegetables at dinner besides a little meat and today we have chicken cutlets and shoestring potatoes, left over beet greens and the baked veggies.  Looking the garden over we decided we need to pull one more row of spinach and freeze that tomorrow as they are beginning to go to seed so they will not grow anymore nice big leaves.  That will leave us just one more short row of spinach.  Then we also need to pull the broccoli plants.  I’ll cut the small side heads (very small) and have those for dinner but pull the whole plant so the other things around them will have the room to grow.  You can’t believe how big the cabbage and cauliflower plants are- WOW!  Norman will plant some swiss chard where he pulls the spinach and I will put in a couple more parsnips where the broccoli come out, by the time they need the room the other plants around will be harvested.  The corn must have grown a foot over night, it is getting so big!  Then we looked at the potatoes and noticed some had been knocked over, not broken so decided it was the wind and rain that did it- no harm done to the plants – they are about ready to be dug and we will start doing those this week. Then we saw a nice little potato about 3 to 4 inches long just laying in the aisle.  I thought Norman had reached under the plant to test the size of the potatoes and forgotten to bring it up to the house but he swore he had not so we looked closer at the plant and found a tunnel dug under the plant.  The potato must have been in his way so it just took it out and went on digging his house.  I have no idea what critter it was, maybe a mole or a vole so we need to check our sonic thing-a-bob I guess it is too shaded by the large potato plants and since it works by solar power and has always kept those critters out of the garden it needs to be moved out of the potatoes and into a place where it will get more sun.  But we haven’t had too much sun this year so that could be the problem.  Anyways no real harm done we will have the potato this noon with the other fried potatoes or in the baked vegetables.  This afternoon I will sew again on the girl’s dresses.  Have a good day and drop a line. Love to all.