Something new.

Never too old to learn something new.  Today I read in  Geology.com,  that the Ogden Dinosaur Museum  has added two new residents.  A Utahraptor and a Tanystropeus.
They are making the models after the fossils found there in Utah.
The raptor is 7 feet plus tall and had feathers.  Looks like a big chicken.  The other dino has a very long neck.  Interesting.  One can learn a lot on Geology.com.
Granny

Weekend.

Up and at em you guys.  It's a beautiful day today.  Sun shining like it has a right to. Maybe I can get some painting done today.  The miner is about half done now.  Working on a couple of small paintings too.

Hope some of the rest of the family will join in on the blog.  Got on facebook myself and neglected to do any posting , so I guess I can't blame you.

Love ya'll, Granny

Well, well well.

I let all of you know I got kicked off facebook.  Have to pester you all through the blog.  Hope you join in.

This is where we were today.  I sat in the shade, read, watched the squirels and the birds.
Phillip went down to the river and panned.  Got lots of fine gold, but no big nuggets.  Too bad.  He did say the water had gone down some and wasn't so cold.  Area where he is working has scads of fine gold.  Have to have a good sucker tube to get it though.  He said someone else has been up there and dug a deep hole in the bank, but he panned some out of their old hole and didn't even get color.  Somebody must have seen him go up there and thought they would find gold too. They would have better luck if they had panned the grass roots.  Lots of fine stuff there.

Granny

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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Howdy

HAPPY FORTH to all of you.... Good day to stay home and keep a watch
on things. Much too dry to go anywhere. Lots of stupd people down
here and too many fireworks..

Phillip put a fence around the flower garden in front to hopefully
keep the pigs out. Looks neat.

I guess he is going to look in the old orchard on the way to town and
see if there are a few more small trees to dig up. He will mark them
for when they are dormant. He dug a cherry after it set on leaves,
but it didn't make it. I think dormant will be better, like when he
dug the peach tree that gave us so much fruit last summer, and is
loaded again this year. It got fruit the 2nd year after he dug it.

Love y'all Granny