Beans and Fruit

So, if anyone is wondering what I've been "up to" lately.......

Here are two rows of grapes....now into 12 quarts of grapejuice...

Twelve rows of Prim beans--roughly one five-gallon bucket-- drying (don't you just love that name...Prim? It sounds so polite and delicate!  It conjurs up images of white gloves and veiled pillbox hats.  Especially as the name applies to the fact that these beans are "gas-less"...no more musical fruit...! ) Below, reddish beans are the old-fashioned musical fruit, makes you toot....etc.!  We always harvest our dried beans when the pods are a golden yellow.  Put them on black plastic and let the sun do its work.  These were particularly crisp and somewhat--shall we say--explosive.....!  Better now than later, though!

Above are red kidney beans from a few years back...the musical kind...

      

These are "in process."  On a hot day, I can hear them releasing their contents.  Small volleys of seeds take to the air from time to time.

And then there were none...

  I no longer have any frogs in my pool.  We were sitting on the porch the other night and a screech owl landed on the limb about ten feet in front of us, just over the pool.  Next morning:  no frogs.

But, I still have one little friend making a home near my pool...