(Pro-Military July 26 demonstrations, via Egypt independent)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Pro and anti-Mursi protesters clash near Cairo’s Tahrir square
• Family of Egypt’s Morsi threatens legal action over army ‘abduction’
• Egypt interim president addresses nation for July23 anniversary
• Bloody Sunday night in Sinai
• MB’s al-Erian calls on Egyptians to besiege the U.S. Embassy (video)
• Egypt’s president hails ex-military presidents on the anniversary of 1952 revolution
• Third Field Army warns Palestinians and Syrians against interfering in Egypt’s internal affairs

Tuesday

• Egyptian prosecution detains 22 Morsi supporters over Tahrir square clashes
• Scuffles at pro-Morsi protest‪ leave 22 injured – field hospital
• Israel beefs up rocket defenses on border with Egypt
• Interior Ministry: Pro-Morsi protesters were not peaceful
• Head of Al-Azhar meets Nour Party figures
• EU emphasises 5 steps for Egypt to attain democracy
• Activist Ahmad Douma attacked by Brotherhood’s supporters

Wednesday

• Bomb at Mansoura police station kills one, injures 17
• Al-Sisi…

Well all this rain has been great but many of us have also experienced hail damage over the last few weeks. I escaped the hail storms in my vegetable gardens until last Friday. I was out-of-town at the time (which was a blessing as I would have been super upset). My house sitter called and told me (before I came home) that it was hit pretty hard. I came home 5 days later and this is what I found. The chard, zucchini, beans, cucumbers and a few tomatoes got hammered so hard they were skeletonized. But most of my tomato plants were covered with row cover (to protect them from the dreaded leafhopper) and they were fine. Four tomato plants that I didn’t cover also got severely beat up. The eggplants that were covered with row cover were fine but the grapes got severe bruises on the fruit and the…