I just spent my five allowed afternoon minutes checking on the garden.

The birds got another tomato. This one hadn’t even started to ripen yet. Damn birds.

The beans are still not making beans.

The cucumbers are still acting as aphid motels and not making cucumbers.

Everything looks pretty miserable.

But wait! There’s good news too!

I found a potato peeking out from under the ground! An actual potato! I covered it with dirt and giggled my way back into the house to inform Lin that it looks like we may very well have some potatoes after all. Well, we have at least one potato, and it was a pretty potato too. Nice size and color. I am so excited! I’ll probably cut back the already dying vines this week, and then in two weeks we get to find out about our potatoes! Yippee!

So I am still somewhat disgusted with what this Texas summer is doing to the rest of my garden, I’m thrilled to finally know I have produced at least one good sized potato. :)