Even though we have already had some "first harvests" from our yard, they have all been perennials. The asparagus comes up every year in the early spring and the strawberries were planted in previous years. Even the fruit on our fruit trees that the squirrels eat were from plantings many years ago.
I planted tomatoes, squash and green beans in the garden, but I timed the planting so they would not be ready for harvest until after we were back from Eagle Lake. The last few weeks have been wetter and warmer than normal. As a result, tomatoes are already getting ripe. I have picked one large one and about 10 cherry tomatoes and one grape tomato. They are really good. Especially the cherry tomatoes. The squash that is supposed to take 50 days from planting has started producing in a little over 40 days. I planted two kinds of yellow squash and two kinds of mid eastern light green squash similar to Kuta. I picked 4 yellow squash yesterday and Joseph and I had them cut up in fried rice. It was really good. Mom should be happy to have tons of squash to eat next week. It looks like the green beans are going to be a little ahead of schedule and there will be tons ready to pick when I get back next Monday. The abundant rain and nutrients have resulted in what looks like a really good green bean crop. There are thousands of little beans about 1/16 inch in diameter and about 1 to 1.5 inches long already growing and thousands of blossoms that will be beans next week. I might have to take a load to relief society again. No photos this time. The camera is in California.
This is the view of the valley from the cave.
I used the timer to get a shot of all of us on the ridge of the canyon. We looked for a passer-by but found none, so the camera timer of 10 seconds was just enough time to get into the photo. 
This is the view looking down into the canyon. The slide of loose rocks shown at the top of this photo is a great spot for sliding down the hill. 
The next two videos (due to memory constraints, I put both videos in seperate blog entries you can see below) are the boys going down the slide of loose rocks. It is a lot like cross country skiing without the skis, but much slower due to the greater friction between shoes and rocks. I shot both videos from the same spot about two thirds of the way down the slope. 
We did not limit our activities to looking for geocaches. Some hid under trees.
Some rolled down fun hills. This is low resolution because it was captured from a short video clip.
And lots of bugs. 
Harper Lyn Easton
10 months ago
