Cool down.

ok wasn't going to post but I checked the news before bed so thought I'd at least do a quick update.

First... it was much cooler today.... I think 70s though it may have hit low 80s.   It was cloudy when I woke up!   Way different then the forecast.   But it's supposed to be right back up there the rest of the week and it may hit 100 on sat!

Anyway I was able to plant a few more things.  I put in some basil because the seeds never came up.   I also put in some "rocket" snaps out front.  One is two toned red and white.  The others will just be yellow if they grow... we will see.

Lettuce in the garden still looks good - and I think I saw a spinach sprouting.   The potatoes and squash look different every-time I look at them so THAT's good.

I planted a yellow tomato in case mine don't work... but I waited to long and almost killed it.  So now I'm hoping it will spring back.    My other tomatoes look better.

I discovered a few more wild flowers in my weed area to the side.

Don't know if I mentioned that area before - it's on the side of the house and it is about 20x12 or so and was full of weeds when I bought the place.  Last year I sprinkled wild-flower seeds that didn't seem to do anything and planted a columbine and some other flowers.  Well the columbine came back!  and it did great!  It's pretty much finished now.  I'll cut it back and see if I can get it to bloom again but they tend not to.    I also had a day lily come back.   And mom's boarder plants did- almost forgot about those.   But most of the area is still weeds.  

Though now I have some purple wildflowers and some stuff that I think are black eye'd susans?   They look like daisy's or sunflowers but their petals are almost straight down instead leaving the brown "ball" of the flower exposed.  I don't know if I like these, but at least I know they aren't weeds.

 Fire update as I go to bed the headline is Day12: 68200 acres. (eek)  55% contained  still 189 homes destroyed and 1 death.  Below is an outline map I "snipped" yesterday.  The red blob in the upper left corner is the fire.   My brother lives at the blue circle and I'm down in the purple circle.   So quite a distance... but I did go to school in Ft Collins.   -- I didn't know you could upload pictures to blogs - I thought you had to have them on photobucket or something.  this is cool.   I wonder how long google will keep the picture?