Hot weekend 8/20

Hot weekend

Hummingbird are still here...

Blackberries are starting to ripen up

This Apple on the old Apple in the back yard has been hanging on, most of the leaves on the branch are dead but it's hanging on.

Grimes Golden, or maybe a Roxbury Russet, or could be Golden Delicious Apple

This is the best looking apple I saw the rest are pretty knarly looking
 

Hops growing up the old Apple out back, not as plentiful as last year, probably due to the heat, and moderate drought. 

We took Mom & Dad and Jason up to the High Tide seafood restaurant up in Hillsborough, James is working there this summer.  Food was great. Not to crowded Sunday evening.

We got home just about dark, let the dogs out, and Hannah ran off, growling over to the side yard, she came running back a minute later when we got our first whiff of the noxious smell Hannah was sprayed by a skunk she was drooling and surfing through the grass trying desperately to get the smell/taste out of her mouth, the smell was really bad, thankfully somehow Zebulon wasn't with her or stayed back far enough to not get sprayed. Rose made up a Dawn, peroxide and baking soda concoction she'd read about online and we gave her a bath with that, it seemed to help cut the smell.  Oh what fun...  I woke up several times last night smelling the skunk odor, I got up and closed the window.

The Jewelweed is flowering now, the hummingbirds seem to like it, it's said the fleshy stem of Jewelweed is full of a gel that will stop the itch of poison ivy. 

That's all for now...