Alex I have a similar rack mounted above my washer and love it. Mine looks a bit flimsier but works great for scarves, lingerie and dressier clothes that can't go in the dryer. It's very handy to tuck the rack away when you are done with it. When I lived in Ontario I always line-dried cloth diapers and heavier items like floor mats and pet bedding. Bedding, towels and clothes got too stiff for me and I also couldn't handle the allergens. Now I'm in Alberta and it's way too dusty and dry to hang anything outside. I am definitely noticing more and dirtier laundry with my kids playing outside in warmer weather though, grass, dirt, pollen and sunscreen are the stains I see the most but Persil does well on all of them. The bottle of Cheer I am using up doesn't cut it for kids clothes so I save it for bedding and towels.

Well, it seems early, but I guess they start early over there where you live so they can squeeze in a couple of extra generations per year. I guess I'll start seriously watching for them now because you and I are only a county apart. I haven't even seen squash bugs yet (not that I'm complaining). However, I've got the flu and barely have stepped foot in the garden since last week so it is possible that I have everything under the sun out there and will be in for a rude awakening when I finally have enough energy to spend a little time in the garden. If I had the issues you have with SVBs, I'd be tempted to take off a year from growing squash. That usually gives you at least a partially squash pest-free year the following year after the year off. Well, unless you have native cucurbits like we do. We have those stinky native buffalo gourds that seem to help sustain squash pests even when we aren't growing squash. One method I'm using this year to grow some C. pepo and maybe C. maximas is to use micromesh and Biothrips Proteknet netting over hoops that cover the plants. I used them both with brassicas this year and they worked really well, though some cabbage loopers got underneath the Biothrips Proteknet near the end of the cabbage plants' lives. I must know have had it secured to the ground 100% of the way, or they wouldn't have been able to get in. Here's where I found the Biothrips Proteknet in smaller sized pieces (as opposed to buying it in huge quantities from Johnny's Selected Seeds) and I want to add that their customer service was great and they shipped quickly: Protek Net @ Purple Tools Micromesh netting is available from many garden seed retailers like Territorial Seed and also can be found on Amazon. This was my first year to use them both and I liked them both for use with brassicas. Now we'll get to see how they do with summer squash and maybe some sort of winter squash that is not C. moschata. My future dream garden would have a hoop house covered with Proteknet within which I could grow squash and pumpkins. It would have to be a big hoophouse too because if I was going to go to all that trouble, I'd want a big hoophouse. And, finally, I don't know if I've said this before, but I'll say it now. I try to garden as organically as possible....always have and always will, but I am not 100% organic. If ever there were anything on this earth that would cause me to purchase and use a chemical pesticide, the squash pests would be it. And, I did use a chemical pesticide to kill grasshoppers the one year they were stripping my tomato plants down to bare stems a couple of summers ago and swore I'd never do it again, but just thinking of having to deal with squash bugs and SVBs makes me rethink that idea. If there even is a chemical pesticide that would control squash bugs and squash vine borers, it would be almost worth compromising my principles to not have to deal with those little brats. Good luck in your battle, Dawn

We have a 6 qt Nuwave and love it. My favorite thing to make in it are steaks, believe it or not. They are like they are grilled on a gas grill (nothing as good as charcoal) and easy to have done to your perfect inside temp. As our grill season is very short here, I love being able to have steak the other 9 months out of the year without having to clean splatters all over the stove. My kids love fried ravioli and you can do homemade easily in the air fryer. Thaw frozen ravioli and bread with egg and breadcrumbs/parm and spritz with oil and cook in the AF until crispy. Wings are great in the AF too without the mess and babysitting of deep frying. I have a large Breville toaster oven with convection and a range with convection and the way an air fryer works is much different. The air speed is much greater which crisps things faster without over cooking. In fact, if you make burgers in one and toss on a slice of cheese without something on top to hold it down, the cheese will fly off the burger before it melts.

That is one beautiful clump of 'Queen Charlotte' dbarron! I have a pot of 'Pamina' that I plunked in the garden when I discovered it was not 'Honorine Jobert'. Wrong color for that spot, I should check on it. Here is the well named 'Robustissima'. Such a beast but I so appreciate the late blooms. You can see there are some plants going toward dormancy already here. We had drought for months but plenty of rain in the last month or so. I did not water at all.