This is Elder Shrope's little garden out on our balcony.  Just tomatoes, cucumbers, and flowers this year.  These have survived despite the rain, wind, and even hail.

 The tomato plant is loaded with little tomatoes but we are not sure they are ever going to get ripe.  It is starting to cool down in the evenings so we may just end up with green tomatoes.  We will have to wait and see.

 The cucumber plants also have many cuccmbers on them.  They are doing better than the tomatoes.

These are the first two cucumbers from our plants.  We picked them on Saturday.  We ate them today when we had several young people from the branch over for a meal.  We served them 'haystacks' which they had never had before.  We also served them homemade brownies and ice cream.  We had three young ladies and five young men here in this small apartment, but we did okay.  They were here in the city for district conference this morning and then a special young men/young women meeting this evening followed by a special young adult meeting.  Elder and Sister Gong of the Seventy are here for conference, and Brother Ochoa of the general young men's presidency is here from Salt Lake to meet with the youth.  They have delivered some great messages and the members have been blessed to be able to hear them and meet with them.  And we have been blessed to be able to attend some of the meetings too.