PORCH PONDERINGS

Time Flies

Can you believe it's already the 21st of October? How time flies. And we still don't have any rain or snow to speak of. There was a bit of a storm eight days ago. But not a drop of snow or rain since then. Too weird and too dry.

I got sad news a few days ago. The husband of the woman we worked for in Gardiner passed away. The motel we managed was a family-owned affair, the wife of this man was in charge. Dennis worked in Yellowstone, retired some time ago from his job there. He'd been in bad health for a few years, but this was a heart attack and very unexpected. Sad news for us. He was a good person.

We put the garden to bed a few days ago. The potatoes were still in the ground. We dug out 37# of potatoes. That's after 50# of butternut squash. So pleased by that. And the squash came from just two plants! Amazing. I guess they really liked the hot spell we had in July.

The OctoPrep Challenge is rolling right along. Everyone is seeing the end. Only a little more than a week to go. I just pray I was a help in keeping everyone on track, making sure people didn't get disqualified for running into that 72 hour time limit.

Pray for us that we get some rain or snow.