Sunday, September 2, 2012

Rains are Gone - Visitors - Usurped Porch Swing

The rains are gone now.  We ended up with 2 full, wonderful inches.  Others got more but we are grateful for what we got.  We were worried we would be too far west.

I do dread the hot temperatures predicted this week though.

DH called me out to the porch Saturday morning to see this:

From September 2012 Blog


For some reason the wild barn cats have started coming down to the house...not all of them.  We have more.  I think we may be able to start catching them for a visit to the vet.

While checking them out I noticed across the road another visitor:

 

This is where the zoom on the camera comes in very handy.

We had dinner with DH's mom in town yesterday so I think today will be spent very quietly at home.

I do have another  couple of quarts of pickles to can.  That volunteer vine is doing well.  BTW, I finally tried Ball's Pickle Crisp.  I was very impressed by the crunchiness of the jar of leftover pickles I stored in the fridge.  I will be using it again today.