OK, so it's been a while since I've posted an update. Of course, I didn't realize it had been THAT long! My sister told me today that I needed to update my blog, and I agreed. Then I pulled it up, and...sorry!!! So, what have I been doing over the past month? Not writing on my blog! Ha, ha, ha! Seriously, it has been a pretty crazy month. The battle of the garden has concluded, and I have won. Yes, the cat hasn't dug any holes since I put up my cat repelling devices. It's called "Catstop" and it runs on a 9 volt battery. If a cat...or anything...triggers the device's motion detectors, the cat gets scared away by ultra sonic noises. Anyway, I truly didn't think it would work, but it does!!! Next year I will be putting up the motion detector controlled sprinkler. Forgive me an evil chuckle...Moi-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! Anyway, that's the most recent thing. Before that, my Beehives challenged the rest of the young women to a Book of Mormon Challenge. We are reading the entire thing in 90 days. I'm pretty dang proud of my Beehives!! They're right on it! I also went hiking again. This time it was up a mountain called Flat Top. I'll bet you can't guess why! Just picture a mountain...with the top part sliced off. I would have gotten a picture to show you, but it was too cloudy. However, I did get some pictures that I am only too happy to share with you! In some of them, you can see the mist choking out our view. In others, you can see a sunny sky, but not the mountains that are right in front of us due to the cloud cover! OH, and also...there was still SNOW up there! Yup...SNOW!!! So, of course, I had to get pictures of that. Usually, there isn't snow up there this late in the year. But... I've already complained about the weather in my previous posts, and this was further evidence of the crappiness thereof. However, I was bound and determined to go for a hike in shorts. It is Summer, after all! It's just been too cool to wear summer clothes. So, this was the day to wear summer clothes. It wasn't too bad, thankfully!!! Now we're headed in to fall. We've grown a garden, and sometime next week will be the day of harvest. I think we'll only be getting cabbage and a few radishes. Hopefully next year will be better. I do have to say, though, that our peas grew to be over 5 feet tall. The blossoms are really pretty, but no fruit for our labors! It's pretty frustrating, actually. But completely out of my control. Live and learn...live and learn. Another exciting thing that has happened over the past month is that a neighbor a few houses down had a fire. So I'm sitting in my house, and all of a sudden I heard these sirens. I didn't think anything of it until they got really close. I look out my window and there are 3 or 4 firetrucks going down my street. One of them was parked right in front of my house...blocking my driveway and everything! AND, guess who was on those firetrucks? Yup...FIREMEN!!!! It was pretty fun, actually!!! I had to call my friends that live down the street and ask them how they were missing all of it. They showed up at my house not too long afterward. After all the excitement, they wanted to see my garden. So I took them into the back yard, and what should we see? My neighbor 2 doors down...PEEING IN HIS YARD! Why he couldn't go into his house and use his bathroom is beyond me, but there he was. I would have gotten a picture, too, but my friend laughed too loud and we were busted!! Oh, well! I'm sure there will be another time. Well, that's the excitement over the past month. I will try to be more faithful about keeping everyone posted and keeping up on my blog. In the meantime...