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.