Welcome to fall in the Pacific Northwest--rain, rain, and more rain!  After four months of no precipitation at all, the rains have finally returned.  In looking over my last entry, I see that I was hopeful that the garden my husband & I planted would do well.  HAhahaaa---this was a very very dry summer which spelled bad news for all things growing.  I only got two rows of corn weeded in early July before visiting my mother in Montana for two weeks.  Oh no!  In those two weeks, the remaining 9 rows didn't get much attention MUCH to the weeds' delight.  Yep you guessed it--they took over!  Result: very little corn, and what we did get was pretty meager.  Ah well, such is life.  On the other hand, the tomatoes did pretty good--I was able to freeze at least five gallon-sized bags for later use in spaghetti sauces, chilis and stews:)  We also planted onion starts this year--wowsers, are they ever sweet!!  Harvested six boxes of yellow Satina potatoes also :)

Now all that needs to happen is for the marsh to fill up with water so ducks & geese will have a place to winter.

Time flies. . .

Time flies when life gets in the way, doesn't it?  Time and tide wait for no man, so the old saying goes, and that has certainly proven to be true!  In my case, to blog or not to blog--ah that is the question!  I love to write, and can do so much more effortlessly in this medium rather than longhand, for my brain often works faster than my pen and the result is "WHAT?  I can't read my own writing!"

Life, since my last entry, has brought interesting challenges my way--a daughter becoming a United States Marine, a middle-school granddaughter coming to live with us for most of the school year, then a black op adventure of tough love that has resulted in my oldest daughter and her husband disowning me and my Marine cutting off communication with me for over a month.  Add to that mix my mother having colon cancer surgery (subsequent checkups have been clear, praise God!) and there you have it: borderline high blood pressure LOL

But on the upside, it's just my husband and me again, and there is peace to be found at last.  The garden was planted in May, and by the looks of the corn, we may very well see it "knee-high by the fourth of July."  More positives: Cats purr; chickens lay fresh eggs; love & support from family is constant and nonjudgmental.