Smiles!!!

Today was a smiles day. We went to the river early this morning. While it has been so darn hot up here on the bench, it was so nice down by the water.

Funny thing. We had some old potatoes left over from the ones Phillip planted, and not wanting to toss the sprouted things out for the pigs to find and start pestering us again, Phillip took them down to the river to toss them out for the birds. He took one of them and covered it with leaves and watered it just to see if it would grow. Well it did and is taller than the ones here at the house. He watered it again. He wants to see if it gets potatoes on it or if someone or pigs finds it first. Who knows.

I sat there in the chair with my feet in the water and read while Phillip got a bunch of stakes for the garden. He wants to fix it so the netting is off the ground so the snakes can't get caught up in it any more. Lizard got caught but it got out when Phillip lifted the netting. It didn't try to go thru the holes. Snakes and lizard's get a lot of bugs, slugs, caterpillar's and a lot of things out in the garden. Hate to lose them. Too bad the birds don't just eat the bugs.

Saw a snake on the front walk when we got home. Hope he stays in the cactus out in front and not back in the garden. Lots of little snakes with blue sides. Haven't seen any rattlers in the yard yet, but the bull snakes can give you an adrenalin rush because they look a lot like a rattler at first. When Steve was here, he said he saw one out by the shed next to his small camp trailer.

Phillip tried to shoot some quails that were digging up the pickeling cukes to get down to the damp cool dirt. Damn things make holes every where the dirt has been cultivated., but never where there are not plants. He can sit there with the bb gun but they never come when he is watching, only when he get absorbed in woodburning or in the house. He keeps at it we may just have quail pie some day yet.

Granny