Yippee!

""~~~~HOT~~~''

This goes to show you just how hot it is down here. Even the deer think so.
Don't know who took the picture, I stole it off the net. Never the less, It's damn hot.

Went to the doc this AM. Didn't confess my addiction because I decided to quit cold turkey. Didn't stop by the store and replenish my anti-depressants. But(giggle) I did get some ice cream bars. Shush, I'm not yelling it out loud you know. And you really can't call them an anti-depressant because there isn't enough chocolate in them. Oh well! Cold turkey wasn't such a good idea after all. Just wondering how long I will last. Any way the doc did give me another year. He must have meant it because he said he would see me then.

Phillip picked 4 green peppers tonight and made some sauteed peppers, onions and mushrooms for supper. So good with the pork chops. Yum! I thought he was going to pick squash but he says they need to grow more. He did get a few radishes for the potato salad he made yesterday. By the way, I think there is still some of that left in the fridge.
Just looked at the clock. It's almost my bed time.
Granny.

Forsooth!!!

I have a confession to make... Yeh I know I shouldn't a done it but, forsooth, I did. I have become addicted. Yeh, I know I should be more careful but darn it, anti-depressants are so very addictive. And these ones are the most addictive of all. You have no idea just how bad it is until you have gotten yourselves hooked on them. Yep!! I looked in the jar and not one hershey's kiss left. I don't know if I can make until I hit the store tomorrow after I visit the doc. I really don't know if I should confess my addiction to him or not. Better not,because he might tell me to go into drug rehibilitation. I just know I would never make it back with out some kind of chocolate fix. Sheeeesh!! What to do? Now is this a revolting development, or what?
Granny.

Cooler day at the river.

Phillip caught this butterfly slurping nectar from a mint sprig. Actually he took several pictures trying to get one with it's wings all the way open. Darn thing was just pigging away and wouldn't cooperate and keep his wings open. Ungrateful wretch!... Can you believe the nerve of that creature. Any way it lead Phillip a merry chase trying.

We went for a walk down stream and saw the hawk waiting on a limb just below the nest. The nest is in a huge clump of mistletoe. We were below him when Phillip took this shot of it. This is a huge tall cottonwood tree, and the nest is almost at the top. The hawks used the same nest last year, but never could get a pic of either of them. Phillip tried with the Sony but when I tried to zoom in and crop it out the pixels spread too far apart. Zoomed in 5 times with this new camera and cropped this out.

A pic of some penstemons. This was before the rain so they are a bit droopy. Quite a color splash in a somewhat arid scene. They were growing along side the road.

One of the denizens of the deep. Well probably deep for him anyway. Actually he was in about 4 inches of water. He kept wanting to hide under the rock and I kept tapping it till he came out. Gotcha!!! Lots of these guys down there in the river but too small to catch and eat. Lots of tiny fish in this hole as well. Some are bottom feeders and some look like trout. Too darn small to tell for me.

As usual all this excitement made me weary so I went and parked my butt in the chair and put my feet in the water. Doing the thing I do best this time of year, Nothing!!! My favorite thing next to playing puter games when it's too hot for anything else.

Today was another exciting day in the life of the AZ Hanks. Yes by golly, we got to take the garbage to the dump on the way to town. Had to pick up a new tire because one of the back ones got a side wall puncture. Oh joy!!! We needed that like a new hole in the head. See what I mean by excitement? Sheeeesh!

Granny

Oh yeh!! It's Friday.

Yep!! And is has been all day.

Makes me wish I was a kid again at times.

The better part of the day was when the laundry was finished and put away.

It was a lot cooler today because we still have some left over clouds from a rainy Fourth of July. Finally!! The poor corn in Phillips garden was beginning to look a little stringy and more like corn stalks you see in the fall. He really planted it along the fence to shade the garden. He did that last year, not expecting to get any corn due to poor pollination but we got quite a few ears. Who know what will happen this year. Rain really makes a difference. Can't seem to get enough water on the garden.

Jake was saying he don't like spiders bigger than a dime. There are spiders down here as big as the palm of your hand. They are called tarantulas. Quite harmless to people but nice to have around in the yard to eat other spiders and bugs. Phillip dug up a huge yellow and tan one when he was putting in the water line to the shop. Should have gotten a picture of him. We see them all the time but never seem to have the camera ready then. They are real shy.
Gotta post this, Phillip almost has supper ready.

Granny

Ain't that the truth???

You can just go into the next room and then wonder what the heck did I come in here for. I have to go back to what I was doing just to remember what I went in the other room for. Have you ever put something in a place just so you would remember where it was? Then now you can't remember the place?? I better go see where I put that right now. What was I talking about? Better read back and see. Oh Yeah!!! Never mind....

Yep, that the way it was when dad was laid off work almost every winter till he went to work at Bunker Hill. Funny how things come back in style.

That 24 hour thing is just so much horse pucky. The darn things breed and multiply tenfold in that amount of time and they never die.

Went down to the river today because they said it was going to be 99 or a 100 and clear. Ha!!

It was clouding up just about the time we got there and It was so cool I almost didn't want to come home. We got clouds and you could count the sprinkles, they were so few. The rancher up on the hill has put cows up there and the darn things come down to the river to drink. Cow poo all over. Tomorrow is 4th and there will be people down there with their kids expecting to let them play in the water. Gonna be a nasty revolting developement when they get there. Everthing way too dry to have a weiner roast with out burning up the country side. Won't be a good day for parents down there.
Oh well , que sera, sera.

Granny

Birthday drive

Yep another one of those days.  Bruce and I went for a drive yesterday for my birthday.  We were going to go to Missoula to the Fort Missoula museum, then to the Memorial Rose Garden and then to the Elk Foundation Visitor Center....but I started getting a flare up in my right foot (which is rare for me) and by 2 am my foot was so swollen and in screaming pain...didn't get much sleep.  Hobbled out of the bedroom to go stick my foot in the bath tub with nice cold well water for a few minutes.  Got a glass a milk and took some ibuprofen, layed in the recliner until about 6:30 dozing off and on and then finally the foot started feeling much better went back to bed and slept till 9 am.  It was still hurting me after that so we decided the museum would have to wait for another day................bummer!! 

We decided to go for a drive. We went up Hiway 56 and took a road that should have taken us into Idaho and from there we would have connected up to the Lightning creek road or we could have gone down the Trestle Creek drainage. We planned on having dinner in either Hope or Clark Fork BUT... we ran into fallen trees and snow up near the top so we had to go back down to 56.  We ate in Libby, MT.  Got back here around 8:30 PM.  Here are some pics I took along the drive:

I had to get this big mushroom thing. It about 8" in diameter:

Oh and the drive coming back down!!