Feels like we finally made it to a maintenance mode in the garden; no new huge projects….just maintain what we have going on! This week was a bit of a breather woot woot 🙌🏼
Garden update….it’s all growing….weeds and all 🙈 weeding is now the thing that could always be done. Some days that’s all we do….some days we put more compost here and there. Everything is out of the green house that will be out! We planted some okra and two more different types of melons in the potatoes for “companion planting”….an experiment… we’ll see how it goes!
It’s getting hot most days. We took a half day one day and found the local pool for our two fish! 🐠 🏊♂️ ☀️
We got to hike this week! Probably the most we’ve done in a week since we’ve been here!
After church we headed to Wire Pass. Imagine the letter T the top part of the “t” is a 14 mile hike called Buckskin gulch and its the longest slot Canyon in Utah….maybe the world. The bottom part of the “t” is wire pass….it’s a 1.7 mile hike through slot canyons to get to Buckskin gulch. We did the wire pass part of the “T”. It was really neat! In the slot canyon it was drastically cooler than the normal temp. There were parts the boys could touch both sides of the canyon. Had they been older (or we had more water) we probably would have done more but the little over three miles on a 100 degree day was just fine for us!
We also went into Zion and hiked the East Rim Trail. We brought snacks and water and set off on the coolest temperature day we’ll probably see until we head north. Highs in the mid 70s made this hike much more relaxing. We think we did about 6 miles round trip. The boys did amazing. We truly had no idea where the trail would lead but we made it literally up a mountain and had a really neat view into the eastern side of Zion. And then we went down and I kid you not Merrick ran about half the way! Literally sprinted. He would run to a shade spot then “rest for energy” and then take off again. He and I had a fun time doing this! He also napped that afternoon 😜
We planned on having a cowboy meal….aka dress up like cowboys and cook over the open fire. Well, the day before planned dinner Utah was put under a burn ban soooo no fire. But we made the best of it. We lit some candles put a couple logs around them and ate on the floor….all in our cowboy get up of course! Two friends joined us (in their get up as well) and that is who gets all the credit for these pictures! All in all we had a good ole cowboy night!
Prairie pictures- check ✅
And incase anyone is wanting to know more about the dress 👗 ….I found that beaut in the laundry room in Tucson in a give away pile before we ever knew we were coming here. It’s a size 3x….I had zero intent of every wearing it but I loved the print and thought I could make button earrings out of it….then we found out we were coming to a ranch so I held off cutting it up….and boy oh boy I don’t know if I ever could cut it up now!
Fun fact- never in my life have I ever seen so many lizards! They are everywhere!! They scurry here and there, it’s taken a bit to realize it’s not a snake…but I’m still startled by them sometimes!!
And we got a new humming bird feeder…and I could see and watch them all day! It’s a suction feeder right to window so we are really enjoying our close encounters!
