Locally, Summer started cool and damp. This hasn’t stopped some of the plants from putting up a show. Here are two, photos Sunday by John:
Syringa is the State Flower of Idaho. It is native and fire-adapted. When completely top-killed by fires, it will re-sprout from rhizomes and root crowns afterward. A fire that burns across the root system of clematis will burn the soft rope-like root system. Sagebrush is also killed by fire as it burns down into the roots.
The Autumn Clematis is an invasive plant that can look pretty while blooming but it is our Kudzu. That one is found in Texas and across the south and to the east and north.
When I wrote the check for the water pump replacement, I screwed up and did the numerical part and the written part differently. Banks use the written line. That had One thousand and should have had One thousand seven hundred (or seventeen hundred would do). I realized this on Saturday and called Kelly and left a message. A check for $700 will get mailed on Monday.
So far in 2025, that’s my dumbest stunt.
My 40-year-old (?) Craftsman Radial-Arm saw stopped last 
week. Several phone conversations later, I’m convinced it is not coming back to life. Unfortunately, the service desk person at a local shop said bring it in, so I built a ramp and managed to get it slid into the bed of the pickup. At the store, the head repair guy said “Oh, that’s an electrical tool and we don’t work on that sort of thing.”
Perhaps the first full-week of Summer will be better.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John