Fall.

Looks like fall has come.  The vultures are heading south.  Happens every year about this time.  This morning there were 17 of them up in the trees outside the house.  While I was counting them, 5 more flew in.  Last year they got here just about dark, and rested the night in the trees.  Wilhoit must be a stop and rest area.  I would take some pictures,  but Phillip is spending the week up prospecting, and he has the camera.  Darn!

Damn grasshoppers have just about devoured everything except the weeds growing on the sewer line.  Just couldn't do that.  Too bad the vultures don't go for grasshoppers.  Would not have a one left it they did.

The Hawks would eat the grasshopper I bet.  A few years ago, Phillip and I were up in Williamson Valley, and coming home we saw hundreds of hawks on their way south, eating the grasshoppers and locusts in the new hay fields.  I did get pictures of them.  Talked to an old timer up there after that and he said the hawks rest there every year on their way south for the winter.

We need more rain. They say some is coming next Monday.  We'll see.  They do that all the time, then it never happens.  Hope they are right this time.

Got to go water the trees. hope the ones the grasshoppers ate all the leaves off, will come back.  The garden is in shreds, so I might as well not bother putting any water on it.  Just a waste.

Love ya'll, Granny.

Fall is here at last.  Been a hot lousy summer.  Oh it was a good one for Phillip, since he did real good prospecting.  But was a bad year for insects.  Name a bug, and we had them.  Had a real bad infestation of of grasshoppers.  There is jillions of them in our yard.  We got new trees this year and the damn grasshoppers ate every leaf off them, no matter how many times they were sprayed.  I don't know if they will come back from it or bot.  I'm surprised they didn't eat the leaves off the peach trees. they must not have liked them but the damn things sure liked the peaches.  Ate the hell out of them.  Same thing with the tomatoes, cukes and squash.  Ate the fruits but not the leaves.  We did get some cukes, beans and squash before they got too bad but the tomatoes are just getting ripe. Phillip put bird netting over them to keep the birds out, but the damn grasshoppers go right thru it.

Other than that, not anything else new around here.

Hope you all had a nice summer.

Love ya'll, Granny.

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