July 2016

Thanks to Phyllis, Steve and Carolyn, we got in a couple days on the Gunnison River this year.  So nice to play in that desert canyon water.

We got a new neighbor this month.  PJ, from Omaha, Nebraska, bought the strip of land at the bottom of the field, and arrived in an old RV (visible at upper right), carrying a complete workout gym.  He spent the first week or so recuperating from working for a living, then got bored and started helping Linc on the home renovation downtown.  This year, the goats decided they actually liked the grass/clover/alfalfa/weed mix we'd been cultivating for them and spent a lot of time down there, or maybe they were just spying on PJ.

This home renovation business started to pay off when a tree in the yard there yielded a bumper crop of sweet cherries.  Here's a small sample of the 90 lbs we picked, another 50 lbs picked by others, and more left hanging on the tree for the birds.  It was a wonderful year valley-wide for fruit.  Finally, no late frost to zap all those blossoms.