Fall

Well, Fall is here and we had our first storm. It blew a few limbs down, tangled up some wind chimes and destroyed one of our little wind mills, but otherwise it wasn't too bad.
JC and I went to the farm supply in Philomath to get electric fence posts so we could fence off the south and west sides of the back yard. It's just temporary, but hopefully it'll keep the puppy in and the bears out. It's not about the apples that they eat, it's about all the damage they do while they're eating them. We found out from the dept. of fish and wildlife that for some reason bears are terrified of electric fences, so we tried it and it worked. Last year we waited too long to put it up and they hit us again, knocking down the back fence, busting limbs out of trees and crapping all over the place.
Taz got zapped three times before he figured it out. Now he stays way clear of the new fence and hasn't gone near the places where he was getting out of the yard.
It rained most of last week so we couldn't make our annual opening day fishing trip in to Drift Creek, but it looks like Monday will be a good day for it.