Summer has already arrived in these parts - guess we beat it by a couple of days? We have temperatures at the century mark. We are fortunate to have a nice steady breeze from the North which does make it seems much cooler? Summer will arrive officially this week along with the warmer weather.
Yesterday we spent part of the day at the Shasta District Fair - the folks that use our pasture had a Steer which was shown by the daughter. They both did great - they ended up 5th place in their class and the steer will be auctioned off sometime tomorrow. The participants are 4H members (some are independents) and they had cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens for show. The kids sure worked hard and the labor of their efforts will certainly pay off for many of them.
I worked in the yard and pasture - we got water last Sunday and the grass is recovering very nicely. Today, I spent several hours digging up blackberry plants - the root system for those critters is pretty amazing. I can see why they spread so easy and are hard to get rid of. We now have 2 horses on the pasture, Bronc and Chuck and behave themselves - no fence breaking or trespassing into the neighbors pasture.
This is a birthday week for many including myself and twin brother!! Seems that this one came around much faster than those in the past? Kathy and I have taken on a tradition for celebration - we go to our favorite restaurant for dinner then we head out for 9 holes at the local golf course. We walk to get the exercise and burn off dinner. We have plenty of daylight as this is the longest day of the year and yes the first day of summer. Like all things, there is a downside to this day. It is the day that starts the cycle of shorter days - not a good thing.!! We will make the best of it and prepare ourselves for the reentry into darkness once again.
Kathy has taken on yet another "artsy" project. She found three pieces of used furniture (table and bookcase) which looked fine but she painted them. I am sure sure will add more on this topic when she get her shot at this blog - - ?? I purchased them for $15 each from a local thrift store. I (Kathy) like the shabby chic/rustic prairie look so, for me, the paint is an improvement. I (back to Ron) am sure she will enjoy the fruit of her endeavors after the pain has worn off from all the work that was required to make it even "more" beautiful?!! She is very confident that each piece will find a loving owner who will appreciate her hard work and efforts. Her next big show will be in September so there will be many of "these" projects between now and then - - watch this space.@!??
Last week I created a problem for Tessie our dog. For some time she has been scratching so I gave her bath then a haircut then doused her with flea and tick treatment. She immediately burrowed into her blanket to rid herself of the hasty, smelly stuff I put on her. Herein lies the problem - she dearly loves to be burrowed into her blanket, now that she has contaminated her blanket with stinky stuff she won't have anything to do with the burrowing and barely wants to lay on it. I did watch the blanket initially then again after the contamination, still a problem for her. Bottom line - she will just have to deal with a soiled blanket!!
For those of you who are interested, let's Tango!
Enough babble - hope you all have a wonderful week.
More later
Ron, Kathy and Tessie
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