It Turned Out To Be A Bad Air Week

 Riverton, Utah       High 94 Low 77

The weather finally had cooled off a little from a high yesterday of 103 to 94 today. It is still hot, but mid- nineties is a little relief.

We did get a little bit of rain today and poor little Penny heard the thunder and got scared.

We have had smoke in the air for the last week. Some days we couldn't see any of the mountains surrounding Salt Lake Valley. There were heath advisories every day. The weather guessers say all the smoke is coming in from Spokane and Northern Idaho, even though a lot of Utah is still on fire. One of the fires had grown to over 100,000 acres with very little containment, and there have been several new fires this past week.

We were planning on having the great grand kids come over, but our grand-daughter called and said she was having complications in her pregnancy, so wouldn't be able to make it. I was planning on getting pictures this time, so sorry, there won't be any pictures.

Cindy has had  a good crop of tomatoes and has been bottling a lot of them. 

For the first time since we've had the quilt machine, I am all caught up with Cindy's quilts. She does have a lot in process though, so the rest will be short. I did have one of my customers bring over two quilts, so I will have something to do. 

Sorry for the short post.

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Bad Air Day

 Riverton, Utah      High 101 Low 75

It is still very hot and the weather guessers are predicting more of the same. What happened to August cooling down?

Today it is so smoky from all the fires that we can only barely see the mountains to the east. The news showed a couple of new fires caused by lightning. They still don't have all the older fires in the state put completely out. At least we don't have any fires in our area.

Cindy's garden is going crazy and the plants are loving the heat. I got the netting on our grapes, and hopefully we won't have birds feasting on the grapes. 

We are getting Tomatoes and some squash, with lots more growing. Cindy says there are two melons growing, but I didn't get pictures of them.

The Zucchini blossom is huge. The plants are going everywhere and you have to watch where you walk because they are all over the sidewalks. 

 

I had made a cage out of fencing for the beans to grow on, and it got so heavy, that the wind knocked it over. I had to add some pipes to help hold it up to hold all the plants.

And I finished another Christmas quilt. It is the same log cabin quilt Cindy has made before, but this time we quilted it in a Christmas bell pattern.

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And It's Still Hot

 Riverton, Utah             High 101 Low 74

It's hot enough, that the weather guessers issued an extreme heat warning for Northern Utah.

I started to put up our bird net around our grapes so we could have grapes and not feed all of them to the birds. I could only get part of it finished before it got too warm. I guess I will have to go out earlier in the morning next time to try to finish. 

About all we have been doing is go to yard sales. We did find a few treasures. 

We have both been making more quilts and quilting them. That's all I have pictures of today.

The next one, Cindy made too many blocks, so we incorporated it into the back.

Utah has a Pioneer Day Holiday on the 24th of July (to celebrate  the day the Pioneers entered Salt Lake Valley). The governor had issued a State wide ban on Fireworks for the 4th of July, but he said we had enough rain that the fire danger wasn't quite so bad, so he lifted the ban for the Twenty-Fourth. Fortunately none of our neighbors went crazy with fireworks this year, unlike other years. Both Cindy and Penny were relieved that none were going off any where near us, but poor little Penny could still hear them and got a little scared at all the banging going off in the distance.

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Change Of Pace

 Riverton, Utah        High 96 Low 72

It is still very hot, with no signs of letting up.

Today I want to talk about Cindy's garden. We put in all the 2 foot high planter boxes. We did put in potting soi at the top of them this spring. As a consequence, her garden has gone crazy. The tomato plants are huge. Also the squash, which we have already eaten some of, have almost got out of hand.

Sorry, the picture of the tape measure is not very good, but the plant I was measuring was 5 feet tall. and there are some about a foot higher, and this is from the top of the soil in the box. 

The onions are huge. 

Lots of green tomatoes.

In spite pf all the fruit getting frozen, we have a good crop of grapes and I will have to put up the bird net before too long or the birds will get them. 

Cindy's garden sure likes the good soil  and the boxes have really cut down on the weeding.

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Really Hot

Riverton, Utah         High 106 Low 74

The last week has been way hotter than normal. The weather guessers are predicting a record high ever for Salt Lake City. As warm as it is outside, it probably is going to make it. Summer got here with a vengeance.  It has been a very unusual Spring and Summer. Right now my phone shows hotter here than in Yuma.

There was not much going on, other than quilts, so here are more quilt pictures.

About the only different thing that happened was Penny got a long overdue hair cut. She sure looks better. 

I almost forgot, we did Have two great-grand kids over to swim yesterday afternoon. I forgot to get pictures.They seemed to have fun and I hope they come again, a little sooner next time

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Happy July Fourth

 Riverton, Utah         High 97 Low 66

July got here and so did summer. It got hot here with the weather guessers predicting in the 100's next week.

During the week I repaired the bottom of the stucco on the posts of our gazebo. I had to use special caulk for the very bottom and then stucco patch for the discolored stucco.

Friday morning we went to an estate sale. We had only been there a short while, when all of a sudden, there were five police cars. It seems one of the neighbors, seeing all the people leaving with stuff, thought a burglary was in process and called the police. All was well, but we thought it was funny. 

Yesterday we went to Cindy's oldest daughter's, Stephanie, for a Fourth of July party. There were lot of kids and Stephanie had a bunch of one month old puppies. The kids had fun playing with them. Penny didn't like playing with them and seemed to say to me, "please get me out of here". She jumped  on my leg, and said, pick me up.

It's a little hard to tell, but there are four puppies steeping in this corner. there are seven total. Although they are only a month old, they weigh almost as much as Penny.

We were worried about people Setting off fireworks last night because Penny is very scared by all the boom going on, but at least anywhere by us, people honored the Governors mandate about not setting off fireworks because of the fire danger in the state. So far, about 350,000 acres have burned, and some of them are 0% contained. There have been lots of homes and cabins burned, some with no warning to the owners to save anything. There were some new fires yesterday caused by fireworks.

I hope everyone had a good Fourth of July.

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