Go West

A post from the road in the middle of Wyoming 

Is that all there is ?

Yep, and Beau culled out some things

16 plus hours later we made it to Gladstone.

 Jace, Jimmy and I camp for two nights and got to hang with the crew before Jimmy drove me back down to the Springs so Beau can get organized before heading North 

 

July - Grafting

I made a cut through the bark into the phloem

I dipped my peach whips in gibberellic acid and a little rooting powder

Sealed the cuts with some tape and sit back and wait

 

And now I'm just waiting on the wine berries

So Much To Do

• It's been a great year for blue berries and I been on top of the harvesting

I picked and Susie made me a bowl for breakfast

Raspberries too

lots of snow peas

Garlic was harvested, washed 

cured and hung up to dry

all smiles before my spelunking adventure under the house 

one of the repairs 

Sealed 

The fun is done

Thursday night market 

in the mill works district

Celebrating Joanie at Steve and Pegs

with a lovely cake that Susie made and Steve's fish fry

Jim and Joyce would have been  impressed

The girls and what's left of the cake

 The start of my packing for Alaska

TOOLS

Susie and I relaxed along the river before we loaded up her tile piece into the pickup and hulled it up to the city house.

One of my most valuable tools is my old 82 Chevy

I picked up a yard and a half of garden mulch on the way back home from Dubuque.

Last time I had Beau around to unload it.

The cucumber vines are latched on to the hay fork that I need to unload the truck

and this tool works well for these weeds

 I'm keeping a eye on the little yellow dot just to the right of the little shelve

Don't let your tools get wet.

And this tool got soaked while getting the work done.
 

FOOD AND DRINK

 

Strawberry margaritas

Meat balls

Pete's Thai Kitchen cocktails

with sprinkles

Gigi

Pre-roast chicken

Last word with borage flowers and a capris salad 

Watermelon daiquiri.

JULY BLOSSOMS

June flew by so quickly and now we're already at the July 4th weekend

The berries have been abundant. First strawberries, wild black raspberries red raspberries, alpine strawberries and blue berries

and we'll finish the berry season with wine berries.

July is in full bloom with Lauren poppies

garden fashion for him

and her.

Susie is all a glow

 Time for smores