Thursday This and That

Four of the 67,000 fans who watched the Seattle Sounders take on Manchester United last night:  Annie, Willie, Alicia and Debbie. 

There may not have been a lot of joy in Sounderville as the English team ruled the game with a final score of 7-0.

This picture was posted on Facebook with the news that they had watched Manchester United's big star "Rooney" score a hat trick in last night's match. 

So, I think the excitement of seeing one of the world's biggest, most well-known athletic team made up for the Sounders' loss.

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While the kids were enjoying their soccer game in Seattle, I saddled up Lily and took her for a pleasant evening ride around the countryside. Took my camera along and snapped some photos of animals enjoying a lovely summer night in the beautiful fields along the road way.

Meanwhile, Bill had driven to Grouse Creek with his fly pole.  Apparently, the water is now low enough that he's having some luck in the fish pools along the creek. 

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I saw a comment on Facebook posted by a former student who was asking his mom to save him from the heat.  He works in Washington, D.C., and he said the heat index there today is 115 degrees.

There's no complaining here in North Idaho as we're enjoying very liveable temps in the low 70s.  Maybe we'll get off easy this year without sweltering, and that will be perfectly fine with me.

I'm sure the unsettled weather has been playing havoc with anyone putting up hay.  Yesterday a young lady told me that a portion of their hay got so wet by recent rains that they offered it to whoever would remove it from their field for a dollar a bale. 

Harvey, who does our hay, told Bill the other day that he is very, very careful before cutting so he can ensure harvesting the hundreds of tons he does each year under dry conditions.  

That means each rain storm puts his schedule that much further behind, but we're not complaining.  Dry, mature hay is always more desirable that moldy hay. 

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I'll post a few photos from last night's ride and call it good for today.  Since we haven't had rain in the past couple of days, I need to do some watering.

Happy Thursday. 

Taylor's cows in one of their recently harvested hay fields.

Bert Wood's cows in Meserve's pasture.

Two of my three fence munchers waiting for Lily's return:  Lefty and Heather.