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Finally! We harvested our first tomato:

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It’s been hot here in the Napa Valley.
But not as hot as I hear it is on the East Coast right now though. And humidity too. Ugh.

Do you remember that shocking yet sweet feeling of running through the sprinkler on a hot day?

It’s hard to believe that another Fourth of July weekend is winding down. Has an entire year really gone by?

This year, with Samantha going on five, has been much different than last.
Last year she was still more of a toddler; this year, she is surely a little girl.
She has opinions on what to do, how [...]

The most interesting change since Update #4 is the grow of the grape clusters in the second photo below. The leaf canopy hasn’t seemed to have grown much, with the exception of filling out some.

So do you like that this year I’ve been featuring the same vineyard in each update?
Or would you like to see more on [...]

Though it is just now starting to get too hot in the Napa Valley for peas to grow, we harvested our first crop only yesterday.

Tom added them to his Wild Mushroom Pappardelle (recipe below).

Wild Mushroom Pappardelle with Garden Peas

Ingredients

Fresh pappardelle
1/4 cup good olive oil
1 medium shallot, diced
1 cup chicken stock
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon [...]

This season’s first harvest from the vegetable garden:

My four–AND A HALF–year old demands a band-aid for every little scrape, cut, or bruise.

She gets a lot of those at her age.

Anyway it’s, ah, miraculous how the band-aids help.

But somehow I don’t think a band-aid will help here much:

After unusually late rains this season, summertime has finally arrived here in the Napa Valley.

Remember when you were a kid and how sweet those first days of summertime would be?

This weekend, we noticed the first of our heirloom tomatoes.

It’s officially (finally) summertime here in the Napa Valley.