The smoke has blown away for now.
It's turned into coat weather outside.
And, we have yet to receive a drop of rain.
My phone says maybe at 9 a.m. some drops may fall, but if not, there's nothing predicted for the next ten days.
That's not good because pastures are drying up.
We'll be feeding hay soon.
Who would have thought that weather conditions would turn so bad so fast, especially with all the rain we had in the spring and early summer.
Weather is always a guessing game, and here in North Idaho, the extremes often come in to play.
So, we figure out how to deal with it.
In other news, we had another dinner with garden delights last night.
Local meat, processed about a mile or two away via crow flying patterns.
Both carrots and potatoes, harvested from the garden yesterday made the tastebuds happy later in the day.
Sadly, the photo of the potatoes below doesn't do their deep purple color much justice. I've never seen purple potatoes until this year, so it was fun to see a change of pace in the spud patch.
My pumpkins are growing significantly every day, especially with added fencing to keep the deer from eating them.
I had to put up even more netting yesterday because when I went to pick some beans from my mound garden, both stems and beans had been sampled.
So, our vegetable dish last night included a grand total of four green beans.
With gardening here at the Lovestead, I always value quality over quantity.
So, if I can at least get it to grow and harvest most of it, that's a good year and probably some unhappy deer.
Pretty much a ho hum day today, so I'll quit muttering and wish you a good day.
Enjoy the photos.
Thursday Throwbacks: Images of special happenings, great moments, good peeps and pretty places from the past. Hope you enjoy the photos and scroll along with the song.
Yeah, that's Michelle, but more importantly that's our Jeralyn right next to her.
Jeralyn was Idaho's school counselor of the year, and Michelle spoke at the national event.
