I don't know what I was thinking, planting so much summer squash this year, but the reliably prolific vegetables are about the only thing that's doing well in this cool, wet, sorry excuse for a summer. I can see the vines stretch forward hungrily every time the neighbor's kids venture into the backyard, and a bunch of Papua New Guinean yam cultists have begun holding midnight rites before the titanic zucchinis and yellow squashes I've ignored on the ground.…
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