Your Welcome...

It rained, poured and spilled for a time this morning, and then we had a steady slow rain for over an hour.  We have cloud cover from horizon to horizon and the temp is now 72 degrees.


I gave up on the rain last night,  put down my two new soaker hoses on the two rows of tomatoes and watered them for more than 2 hours.  That is why it rained.  Your welcome.

I searched online yesterday to see if I could get and idea as to why my potatoes do not yield they way I think they should.  The only thing I found that I might be doing wrong is not planting them deep enough.  I usually just plant them about a half inch deep.  Someone said that potatoes only put on between the seed potato and the top of the  ground.  Next year I am trying the recommended 3 inches or more.  Following the Trump rule, I read it on the net.


Our Billy with the bad leg is trying to breed our grown nannies this past week, starting with Black Goat on the 19th, on to Holly, Red and Big White yesterday.  It he can over his handicap, we should have babies the last two weeks of November.  If that does not work, we are counting on our backup billy, Chocolate Milk.  We will see.

Looking forward, Itinerary

Less than two weeks to our big trip.  JIC, below is our Itinerary.  We are not sure what day we will get back home.  Maybe Tuesday, 7/20, or Wednesday, 07/21, or even Thursday, 07/22.  I have vacation scheduled through 07/27.

Hotel	Place	date
Quality Inn and Conf Room	Grand Island, Nebraska	5-Jul-16	Tuesday
Best Western Plains Motel	Wall, South Dakota	6-Jul-16	Wednesday
Comfort Inn	Custer, South Dakota	7-Jul-16	Thursday
Best Western Sunset Motor Inn	Cody, Wyoming	8-Jul-16	Friday
CANYON LODGE WESTERN CAB	YELLOWSTONE	9-Jul-16	Saturday
CANYON LODGE WESTERN CAB	YELLOWSTONE	10-Jul-16	Sunday
MADISON CAMP	YELLOWSTONE	11-Jul-16	Monday
MADISON CAMP	YELLOWSTONE	12-Jul-16	Tuesday
Flat Creek Inn	Jackson, Wyoming	13-Jul-16	Wednesday
Flat Creek Inn	Jackson, Wyoming	14-Jul-16	Thursday
Holiday Inn	Vernal, Utah	15-Jul-16	Friday
Steamboat Hotel	Steamboat Springs, Colorado	16-Jul-16	Saturday
Glacier Basin Park	Rocky Mt National Park	17-Jul-16	Sunday
Glacier Basin Park	Rocky Mt National Park	18-Jul-16	Monday
	HOME?	19-Jul-16	Tuesday

Getting Ready, Garmin Nuvi65 GPS

To go West.

I hooked up our Garmin Nuvi65 GPS to the computer today and updated the maps with George's help.  I could not figure out how to hook it to the computer, but he did.

And, in the bag with the GPS was the car charger for our computers.  Last year before vacation, I bought a power supply/charger for our computers that plugs into the truck.  I thought I had lost it, well I guess I had lost it, but now it is found in the bag with the GPS.  All this time, I thought all the cords with the GPS were just for it.

It is hot, hot, hot here and the net says it is going to be around 90 in Yellowstone in July.  We are going to have lots of fun just the same.

Brother is in the hospital, but I think he is going to be OK.