Too busy 2 Ride

I know, it doesn't sound quite right, but we have been too busy to ride! Except, of course, for the short trips to town to eat and run errands. I have noticed, though, on our rides around central Oregon, Lionshead and Black Butte in the Cascade Mountains. still both have snow on them. Rumor has it that you don't plant your garden until the snow is off Black Butte, but that could be in July this year! The prediction is, because of that, it will be a bad fire year; hope not! The basketball games are also taking way too much of our time. Our favorites have, or will tonight, fall by the wayside, so maybe we will not spend I mean, waste so much time on TV.

Puff and I watching the games. Go LeBron!

We used to live on the 'campus of the reservation, in fact, it was one of the first houses we lived in as newlyweds. Directly behind our house was a 'wild' rose bush, it had yellow blooms on it. Well, a couple years ago, the 'old' houses were torn down and they burned the 'residue', including the rose bush! I went to the site with my bucket and shovel to find some of the plant that hadn't burned. I found a few starts and brought them to my home. I call them the "Agency" roses because that's what my father called the area. I guess it could have been the "Campus" rose, but it isn't. Didn't think of it at the time, now it has its own name. It has grown so much that I moved half of the bush to another site in the yard. I am encouraged that it is growing so well. Maybe someday it will be all around our 2 acres - I will try! You can see, off in the right corner, a gray plastic frog. I keep running across these little surprises as I go through my parents' stuff. It's rather cute and probably has its own story, but I'll never know what it is. We've given it a new place, out of the shed and under the Agency rose. I noticed, just this year, that the 'mother' rose, up on the campus, is growing again! Can't keep a good rose down!