Hi Margaret, I don't remember the story from last year, so it was good to tell it. What a wonderful story, I can just picture it. We spent Fri - today up at our land in the middle of Colorado and I can relate to the scenery you painted in the story. It was really dry up at our land but the temps were great, similar to your Boise weather, 45 this morning when we got up. My iris up there look good, one even must have had a flower as there was a bitten off stalk. Our 110 trees are looking good, even most of the 30 aspen, thank goodness it rained almost every day in June. Our rainbarrels were even full. The flowers were tremendous this weekend, there were 2 kinds of yellow flowers, white, about 5 different kinds, pinks, purples, blues, oranges and reds. The Indian paintbrush were out in force. We saw on our land, mountain bluebirds, tree swallows, chickadees, pigmy nuthatches,crows, blackbirds, and of course the night hawk was there. What a wonderful weekend, as George says, life is good. Jane > > I have a perception that I told the same July 4th story last year. Sorry > about that. Margaret L