The toaster oven is convenient for things like our oven-baked fries. (Yummy.) It's especially nice in the summer. No need to heat up the whole oven for baking small things (and we can even take it outside to avoid heating up the house).
This is one of three clematis vines my mother gave me from her garden a year or two ago. I haven't had the best of luck with clematis, in the past, but so far (knock on wood) these are hanging in there.
(And a bonus photo of the same flower one day later...)
Carpenter bees are real pests around our yard, so this year we've made a couple of traps for them-- one for the patio and one for the shed. We've caught quite a few bees already.