Avery got the first ripe cherry tomato yesterday.  There are a few more that are a day or two away from perfection, a couple of fistfuls worth of green ones growing, and a ton of blooms.  Avery insisted on gathering seeds from the yellow cherry tomatoes she was eating this evening (purchased last week at the farmer's market) -- she and her dad planted them in the pot where a previous planting didn't make it.  The peppers are still only about 8" high - expectations remain very low there.  Two strawberries are ripening and the mint continues to go gang busters.  Same for the weeds, they're having a hell of a good time out there and it's too friggin hot for me to want to go weed.

Another day another disappointment on critters... I spotted a blind senior gal that checked a lot of the boxes for me.  A conversation had ensued... and now tonight word comes that the foster mom has decided to keep her.  Great news for the kittie and foster mom, sadness for me.  Still nothing from the folks I was to meet with over the weekend either.