Here's some local wild flowers, well, mostly wild but all local,

just in time for mothers' day!

 It definitely was a mothers' day to remember:

Oh yeah, that one ..

On Saturday we drove to Grangeville where we met with Pat and Sam, to visit yet another property they own over there.

 

The canola fields were starting to flower. In a couple of weeks this whole 'prairie' will be a bright yellow!

The reason for going, was the fact that there's a lot of old 'stuff' laying around the property, and they'd like to preserve some of it to use as accent features in the new house.

                   

There's a lot of old wood from collapsed barns and rusty metal from some old cars ..

 Faded glory ..

Wagon wheels, door handles, old farm equipment, anything is fair game!
I think the plan is to move some of the wood fairly soon, but to wait with the metal until Ronnie will come over in August, since he's the one who has some specific ideas about using it ..

So far we had beautiful weather, but we're having a little more rain at the moment and according to the forecast we're going to have a lot more of it in the coming 2 weeks.
It's probably a good thing since we're a little on the dry side ..

                            
These are apricots, from the only such tree on the property. 
It is heavy with fruit but dropping some also, and I'm afraid that is because it is too dry. Let's hope enough stay on!
I've bought some tomatoes, zucchini and cilantro, which are looking great but of course I'm watering them:

Cilantro

I sowed some (leaf) lettuce in all of these pots too, right next to the plants.
Hopefully some of it will come up!

I also couldn't resist buying a beautiful hanging basket with trailing pink surfinias, and the wild rose next to the RV has exploded with hundreds of yellow flowers, like it does every year according to Pat!

The birds are busy defending their territory and, I expect, sitting on eggs or maybe already having chicks ..

A Chuckar (partridge), such a beautiful bird! They can have up to 40 (!) eggs over the summer, laid in clusters ..

  

A Lazuli Bunting and a female Lesser Goldfinch (I think).

Lately I've been reading about a disturbing side effect of the Covid-19 virus ... Corona-kilos. 

It's a thing!

No clue though as where they're coming from ..

It's a mystery!?

Like I keep saying, my brain is still too befuddled at the moment to do anything too intelligent, but besides reading and going for walks I manage to do some puzzling.
I just finished this one, it's a fun one .. except for that cotton field at the top!

 

James, of course, is totally not affected by anything that's going on (he doesn't really think about it, or so he says), and has been productive as usual.
It doesn't look as spectacular as any of the previous work, since a lot of it is done under the floor and/or in the walls, but the electric is mostly done, and the water lines and the plumbing pipes are almost in ..

Tomorrow the AC/Heating guys will be here to start working on putting in all the ducts.

In the meantime, Pat and Sam have been collecting some stone and rocks from the back of the property, which are going to be used around the fireplace.
You can see some of them in the picture below ..

It's going to be a puzzle  .. but fun to do!

Also, Don has delivered a load of freshly milled wood, that he cut from an old tree up in the canyon, which he took down last Fall. 
It is going to be used inside as well, but needs to dry a little more before it can be used ..

Well, there you have it, another exciting week in the live of the Hess's! 

To be continued