We had a freeze the other night that took out my vegetables and nipped my petunias. The flowers will recover, but the zucchini and tomatoes are zapped. I hadn't thought to cover everything over night because our days have been so warm.

Today was close to 80 degrees, and our days are going to be in the 70s for the next 10 days. Night time lows? Around 45 - 50 degrees, if I can believe the forecast. 35 to 40 will be more like it, but that's warmer than usual for this time of year.

Meanwhile in Las Vegas, the hot weather also lingers, and it was supposed to get up to 100 degrees today. Their overnight lows are warmer than my daily highs, but that's par for the course.

After a spell of rainy weather last week, I went ahead and drained the river pump that we use to irrigate the grass, and now this dry spell looms. Well, too bad. The grass is just going to have to thrive with the moisture from the morning dew.

The river is low, this is what they call 'native flow:' the amount of water it would have at this time of year if there wasn't a huge reservoir controlled by a reclamation dam upstream from us.



It's the perfect level for fly fishing, and the fishing has been excellent.