Friday Nite Check In

 We got a little rain yesterday..., not as much as the week before.  The Little Pond and The Pastures could use a little more..., but the Fire Weed flowers are already barely holding up their own weight.  The Little Pond once had blue water in it..., at least in the pictures that were developed by Seattle Film Works for my old 35mm camera.  I guess the film developers thought that pond water ought to be blue.  I do wish there would have been enough rain to overflow the pond and skim off the green alge that has settle on it..., but that won't make it blue..., nothing but Photo Shop could do that..., maybe.

The Potato Garden has been loving the weather with hot sunny days interspersed with some decent rainfall and a couple doses of well water from the sprinkler..., just for comparisons sake..., here is the shot from two weeks ago below...,

4th of July tomorrow..., I have several memories of The 4th's past..., but the best one was 1972 just before I got drafted and inducted into the Army on July 12th.  Joe Henson and I drove my new Ford Pinto to Spokane to pick up a couple of gals that Joe got to know when he was going to college in Astoria, OR.., and we were supposed to hook up with other friends and classmates at Yellowstone National Park.  We covered a lot of miles and made it to West Yellowstone, MT pretty late in the evening and hit a rock and roll bar before we continued on to The Park and ended up sleeping in the car.  The next day we spent exploring The Park and checking every campground looking for our buddies.  We finally settled in a campground ourselves for the night.  The next day we were headed out via West Yellowstone again..., and ran into our friends there..., and found out that they had been in the same bar we had hit on our way in..., and they had stay at a motel in West Yellowstone.  Jerry Moore, Jerry Johnstun, Don Judd, Mike Green and Robert Brown if I remember correctly..., were crammed into Jerry Moore's Chevy Nova..., and they shot bottle rockets they picked up in MT at us as we cruised down the freeway to Boise, ID..., where we camped out in Jerry's brother's back yard.  The next day we cruised around the city park before we headed north and home..., which brings us to the Friday Nite Music Video from that era...,