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| My larger flowerbed. |
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| Some of the many mushrooms we have. |
Wednesday 5/31. We left on our garbage run at 9:00 am and by the time we returned to Rose Camp a little after 1:00, the sky was overcast. The reason it took so long is, of course, we never go Down There without running several errands.
The trillium blooms along our road are all gone, having been replaced by arnica, sweet peas, flox and lupine. So many colors!
After a late lunch, I broke the small branches we brought up yesterday into kindling and stacked them in the wood shed. The day remained overcast and our high was 64.
Four of my irises are going to bloom this year. I transplanted them near the hen house three years ago and this will be the first time they have bloomed. My lilac bush is also going to bloom. It didn't last year. Can hardly wait!
Thursday 6/1. It was 52, overcast and sprinkling lightly this morning. I put in a fire just to take the chill out.
We worked in the dirt after breakfast. JB used the tractor bucket to bring dirt to fill in the hole I had dug around the cistern riser and laid in plastic to keep the snow melt from leaking into the cistern. I tore down half of the small wall and rebuilt it to make a larger place for a flower bed. JB brought in two bucket loads of dirt to fill it, then I finished the wall. He also put three bucket loads of dirt at the end of the swale by the hen house.
We left late for our morning walk and got caught in a light shower on the south ridge at about 11:00 am, but we were able to get back to the porch before the rain really started coming down. It kept raining until about 2:00 pm and then we went out to work on Miss Kitty. JB discovered that the thermostat was missing! So we spent almost two hours trying to put her back together. We were unable to get the storage box back in, but got the dashboard all done. Tomorrow we will put the doors back on.
The sun shone most of the rest of the afternoon and our high for the day was 62.
The longer we use the coolers, as opposed to a refrigerator, the more I wonder why how quickly the pioneering ways were discarded and then forgotten in the face of technology. And how soon common sense disappeared. It seems the best rule of thumb is K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Friday 6/2. It is 50 and partly cloudy this morning. I am going Down There for a grocery run and to get shelving that is on sale for the one side of the outhouse that we are using as storage.
Thought for the day: It is not the business of the government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others. The moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line, they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve. Henry George
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