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Rowing coach, gardener, union grocery worker in PDX

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🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 89. Survived the big thunderstorm yesterday with no problem. Practically tree trunks fir stems.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 88. House sitting friend missed yesterday's Pic but sent me this today.

Made cinnamon maple sticky buns for the family while we are all on vacation together.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day (Night) 86. Coworker house/cats/chickens/cockatiels-sitting for me took this pic after getting off work tonight.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 85. Meanwhile, we are in Sunriver and saw The Raptor Show at The High Desert Museum.

Wanted to get a "vacation puzzle" for April for our current stay in Sunriver. Decided to look at local business, Portland Puzzle Company, and found we could turn one of her paintings into a puzzle! portlandpuzzle.com

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 84. Pic thanks to a friend house sitting for us while we are in Sunriver. Opening up!

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 83. Almost open. Seeing some yellow. Updates may be spotty the next few days.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 82. Another post work night shot.

Homemade Blackberry Ice Cream. No coloring added. Just dark purple from the berries.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 81. Late afternoon.

🌱 A view of the main garden this morning. And bee with yellow pantaloons of pollen on a volunteer Sunflower.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 80. Almost opening up.

Happy International Cat Day! (Neptune is happy).

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 79.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day (Night) 78. Up into the Night.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 77. Reaching above the evening shade.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 76. Time for a "how many Aprils tall is it" pic. It appears to be just shy of 3 meters.

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Peggy Brava

Last year's sunflowers pictured below. We don't really see storms here and last year's even survived strong Fall weather.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 75. A quick pic before I head off to work.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 74. Blossom head prominent but not blooming yet.

🌱 Harvested the rest of the Garlic today. 37 heads of Chesnok Red and 32 heads of Inchelium Red.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 73. Standing and still growing taller.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 72. Another hot, summer day.

Neptune hanging out. (We obviously don't plant anything in this box)

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 71. Reaching for the blue sky and might open up in the next day or two.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 70. A view of the row of sunflowers I planted that line the sidewalk. Our "Progress" Sunflower is the one immediately to the right of the house window.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 69. First significant rainfall in quite some time last night and today.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 68. Or rather Night 68. Forgot to take a pic until I got home from work.

🌱 Giant Sunflower Progress Day 67. A pleasant 25 C at 7:30 pm. Starting to notice more wildfire smoke haze.