Wow, did you get any rain the last two weeks? We had 14 inches in four days during the worst of it, then last week was another deluge. I can't say that much rain is good for the crops or makes a produce farmer's life easy, but the tomatoes seem to have come through it without any loss in flavor and the watermelon loved it. We grow the variety "gold flower", originally from China and, as far as I know, still exempt from tariffs. 
when the little curly tendril opposite the stem turns brown, the melon is ready to eat. This variety has yellow to orangish- yellow flesh, and is a seeded variety. I don't grow seedless varieties, which I consider to be abominations.
And here are some aptly named "Sun Sugar" tomatoes ripening on the vine: 
Although this year maybe they should be called "Rain Sugar". Though a hair less sweet than the famous "Sun Gold" tomato (how sweet is a hair, anyway?), Sun Sugar- unlike Sun Gold-does not split open even in heavy rain, very useful in a year like this. Our tomatoes grew so vigorously this year that the weight of the vines toppled over our trellis in many places.
Which makes picking more difficult.
In other news we are busy now transplanting fall crops such as kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and seeding beets, turnips, radishes... cultivating, hoeing, and pulling weeds... and the next planting of zucchini is about to start producing...
and the peppers are getting ready to pick....
Do you ever have the feeling that you have too many things to do all at once?
"All's well that ends in a good meal"-- Arnold Lobel
