Flags and Shade

Grant bought me a flag for my birthday this year.  I've been wanting a big one for the last few years, but never have done anything about it.  I mentioned it in passing to Grant this Spring and he remembered!!!

Grant usually puts up the shade tarp on the deck in June, when it starts to get hot.  Although we enjoy the evening shadows created by the sun moving past the house by around 5pm in the summer, we also like to use our deck in the morning.  It's been a coolish, wettish Spring/Summer, so we have been able to do some of our normal summer tasks a little later this year.  We're still marvelling at how lush everything is compared to last year, when we had little to no success with gardens.

Hobart the Patriot!

And Grant makes shade for the deck with a tarp today, the 8th of July