Although the daylight is shorter, the heat has also gone.
Thus a pleasant week. Our start of fall is still a week away, but the weather is fall-like regardless of how we count such things in the USA. I likely will skip the event because it happens early in the morning and there is nothing to see. Find any place in the USA by going to the site and enter a town name on the right side where it has America in a search box.
https://sunsetsunrisetime.com/equinoxes/america/2024
I’ve been digging holes for plum trees and for a wood ramp off the back concrete slab. Where the Raspberries were there are plants peeking through the gravel. Today I rescued a few and will move them to the garden; later if they survive. When that area gets sunny I move to the shed and work on the frame for the ramp. That is now in place and I need to add the decking (boards). Some of that will get done on Sunday during a “mostly sunny” day. I needed nails for the project and, so, went to the lumber/hardware place on a day they were giving lunch. The cheeseburger was nice but I had to settle for a generic diet cola. They did have water and that might have been a better choice. It just seems not to go with a grilled burger.
Quail and deer are numerous. Here is a photo I took from the end of my driveway late afternoon on Saturday. There were about 17 deer. I’ve counted 23 at times with five nicely antlered ones.
The field was in alfalfa that the deer ate as it grew. Now cut, baled, and hauled off, the deer still find the field the best feed in the neighborhood.
Elevation of the field is 2,250 feet and the slopes going north reach
6,876 feet at Mission Peak about 13 miles away.
The Adult Activity Center (AAC) scheduled (for Friday) a presentation by the main senior care facility in EBRG. About 8 folks signed up and were assembled at 11:30 when the affair was to start. No one showed up! A missed connect between the AAC and the facility. We did get a nice lunch and I went to the grocery after. So, not an entirely wasted trip to town.
Tuesday next a group of 12, plus driver, are headed to Grand Coulee Dam. I’ve been past the facility on the way to work on the Candy Point Trail that leads to an overlook a mile north; see here: 47.971622, -118.986263.
The also accessible by road destination is called Crown Point.
We leave EBRG at 8 am, get a tour and a lunch and return about 4:30.
Report to follow next weekend.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan.
John H.