Well I guess I'm just not much of a blogger, despite my intentions. We were blessed with a smoke-free summer this year - no major fires in the valley at all. Yay! The mosquitoes were ferocious however, and came earlier than usual. The meeting with the Yakamas was a total waste of time, so we're still contemplating plans for bank preservation. All they want to do is getting running water behind us by dredging out the ponds and all the way down through everybody's property to connect to the river below us. Yeah right. That sounds like an excellent idea, if you want to live on an island with an eroding bank. No help with advice on the most fish or neighbor friendly way to use rock. Sigh.
Strange summer weather - not very hot with an abnormal amount of rain. The snow-pack ended up being less than normal so they were calling it a drought,and the river did drop really fast. September was not its usual self - no Indian summer and way more rain than I needed. Now it's cold and we're getting more wind than normal. I was out trying to get the RV ready to roll the other day and had to come in because it was rocking so hard, it was making me seasick! I think we had 40+ mph winds that day. It cleaned off most of the trees - so long fall color.
Our vegetable garden did horrible this summer. The gophers ate our onions and root crops, the peppers didn't get enough sun and heat to produce as usual, and the tomatoes were just plain sorry. We only ate one melon and it was tasteless. The only real successes were the cukes, squash, and cabbage. Disappointing, and now Greg is really disheartened about the garden for next year. He quit weeding it before the end of summer, it seemed so pointless. I hope he gets back in the groove again, I can't even keep up with the flowers let alone take on the veggie garden by myself! We did can up some green salsa - nothing stops the tomatillos.
We had the house painted in September and, of course, everything along the foundations got trampled and abused, so it looks especially sad right now. It will all be fine in the spring.
The weather is supposed to hold for another week now - cold and sunny. We're planning to head south next week. Still lots of stuff to get done though.
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