September Shots

Bokah!  That funny light that's so hard to capture...

Clothespins in the rain at Jaspers.

On my way home from Bigfork last week, there was an amazing fog rolling off Swan Lake.  I forgot I had the camera set to black and white, but as it turns out, it would have looked much the same in color.  It looks like the lake is sighing...

I forgot I planted these funny sunflowers! Gardener's amnesia often results in delightful surprises...

Rose hips on my Jodi-rose bush...
The blooms are shockingly bright pink, but the hips are this gentle autumn color that makes me swoon.

Yellow grape tomatoes...see the little blossom fingers curling back from the fruit?  They're about to let go, so I need to hustle up and harvest!

Tomatoes are just as pretty to look at as they are delicious to eat...this is an un-edited photo; you can't make that red color up.

Eastern Montana in September...

Even the thistles are sort of attractive in their own way, aren't they?

Monday Sundries

The bad news:

• Maggie's only little cow, Poppy, that she raised as a bum and poured her heart into tested UNbred today and will be shipped...*gulp* and lots of tears.
• My crockpot beef stroganoff is rahther....juicy.  Paula Deen swears on her dear old southern-fried heart that it will thicken, but I don't have two days and I'm out of cream-of-whatchacallits to add to it.
• No less than 30 flies have been killed since we got home; I'm starting to think that for every fly I manage to kill, three pop up out of the carcass. (Do dead flies have carcasses?  If not, then what?)
• I'm out of wine. 
• I don't get the word study homework the kids are bringing home!  FIRST GRADE word study has me flummoxed. Whatever happened to good old spelling books, that's what I want to know???  
• My fantasy football teams are pathetic because....get this....
• San Francisco all of a sudden forgot they were the best team in the NFL and are playing like Montana Class D kids. (The worst part of that is that there IS no Class D in Montana.)
• I'm out of wine.

The good news:

• My heifer, Rosie, (Daisy's second calf) IS bred so the OC herd grew exponentially today. (Which is easy, when there are only two or three cows in the herd.)
• I remembered to put food in the crockpot and I'm pretty sure I can flesh out the beef stroganoff with fat noodles.  Or not.  But, hey...it's cooked and smells like beef!
• DID YOU SEE THAT I KILLED 30 FLIES?!?!  Maggie told me that they must be some seriously stupid flies, because I'm not known for my eye-hand coordination.  Whatever.  They're dead and I did it!!!
• Found a beer-garita in the bottom of the fridge.  It was that or Marsala cooking wine.  SCORE!
• Homework is finished.  And so is the laundry, because...
• When I can't stand to watch my team(s) lose, I do other things rather angrily. It was a busy afternoon yesterday.
• TTU Red Raiders are 4-0 and the polls grudgingly put them up in the top 25...with two walk on freshman quarterbacks, mind you.  Guns up!
• I get the first shower! 

And so goes our Monday...