Friday Nite Check In

 We got a nice dose of rain on Thursday..., and I think the potato plants will be showing even more appreciation for it in the days to come..., and I will be hilling them up a little after it drys out a bit.  It has been a good couple of weeks now that we have been warm and dry..., the rest of The Ranch will be just a greatfull as The Garden for these May showers.  The forecast for Thursday only called for "less than a tenth inch" of rain..., but we got four tenths..., and another eight tenths on Friday.  I was a bit concerned that a couple of the roof rattling cloud bursts might have pounded those tiny plants into the ground..., but they were standing tall when I checked in the late afternoon.  The forecast for tomorrow is for "slight chance of showers".  That shouldn't hurt anything..., considering what happened a few years back.

This is a picture from 5/12/22..., when the spuds were just starting to show themselves.  At that time I was figuring on a "crop failure"..., 

..., but luckily they pulled out of it and on 9/21/22 I was harvesting potatoes !!!

Here's a batch of seed potatoes from that crop.  It was far from the best crops we have had over the years..., but considering the expectations I had after "the flood"..., I can't complain.

All that rain did put my Back Porch roofing project to the test..., and I am happy to report that me and the kitties now have a dry porch and no more drip pans to stumble over.  

Before the rain showers this week I managed to spruce things up a little..., some weed eating..., pulled the ferns and grass and sticker bushes out from around the decorative rocks around the Little Pond..., and cleaned a couple of water troughs...., and yeah..., the patch on my bathtub in the Northwest 40 has been holding water.

The grocery run today put a little smile on my face..., the $5.90 gas station was down to $5.76..., the Rib Steaks were down to $14.99 a pound..., and the $27 case of beer was back down to $23..., I would like to hope the trend will continue..., but realistically I think that would just be wishful thinking..., WTI crude oil was up to $105 last time I checked today.  So..., to repeat myself..., I can't complain.

Which brings us to the Friday Nite Music Video..., a song that I have used a couple times already..., with a differnt video of Cody Jinks and "I Can't Complain".