Build it and they will come. Since adding the hoops and plastic to one of my raise beds, it’s become the favorite lounge destination for cats all over the neighborhood. They love the sauna like experience it creates apparently. That black and white cat? The one so tenderly spooning my tomatoes? Not my cat. That other cat? Not so tenderly laying right on top of my tomatoes?  My cat.

The starts in the photo are melons for the Wendell Berry Community garden. They have since been planted and subsequently decimated by slugs. Those damn slugs! I lost my cucumbers to them and have to start over. Grr…how do you fight those slimy things?