I got a subscription from Charles today to NetFlix and got all set up this afternoon and watched my first movie tonight. It's a pretty cool way to get movies! I watched Bicentennial Man, about 200 years in the life of a robot that develops emotions and becomes human. Kind of sad.
We found disaster had struck, they had some water damage to the Lodge over the winter and it was closed for repairs. The owner was outside and we had a good visit with him, we asked him about the resident ghost, Zeke. The story the owner told is different from the one Ernie told, Ernie said Zeke killed his bride in the hotel on their wedding night, the hotel owner said Zeke is the son of the former owners and he was killed in a car wreck and is a friendly ghost and now that his parents are gone, they also haunt the place. He said if anyone sits on a counter, a glass will break somewhere in the hotel. The owners wife didn't like anyone sitting on counters and that's her way of showing her displeasure. He also said the son liked to wear plaid shirts and several people have seen a ghost in a plaid shirt wandering around. I like the friendly ghost story better! I don't suppose there could be two haunted hotels in Greer, both with a ghost named Zeke, one good and one bad, could there???
I saw online that you can schedule a Murder Mystery Weekend or dinner for groups at the Amberian. Sounds like fun, the owner said they give everyone a part to play and I guess the group tries to solve the crime. What fun!
We found that Tuesday isn't a good day to visit Greer, most of the restaurants are closed, we usually eat at the Rendezvous, but it was closed too. We'd seen this cute little cafe on wheels called the Frosty Bottom on our way to the Amberian and the name tickled us so we decided to eat there. We got sandwiches and they were so good! I got one called the Treehugger, a veggie one and it was delicious! Mom and Carleen had one called the Barnyard. Carleen got hers on a croissant, she didn't want the rye bread. I usually don't like rye, but this was good! I need to take John to try it out!
At Christmas this past year, Greer had something they called a North Pole Experience. This was the bus used, I think it is kind of based on the movie Polar Express. It sounded like fun, but was expensive, I think it was around $400 a person for the bus and an overnight.
Remember when I put out the Sun Chip bag to compost a while back? Today I uncovered it and peeked to see if any composting was taking place. Nope, none, other than a bit of fading, it's still intact.
These flowers are on some weeds just outside my garden. They look so pretty I just couldn't cut them down!
I need to decide where to plant my lavender plant and get it in the ground! I decided to plant a few of the Concho Chili seeds, didn't want to plant them all in case they don't have time to mature this year, but I just couldn't resist trying them out.
If you'd like to visit, tours will be now until the 3rd of July at 9, 11 and 1pm. You can find times and events on their site on the Internet, http://www.redrockfarms.com/. I'd go at a time when there isn't a tour and just go to the store. The tour was $5 and all we did was stand in the hot sun and listen to the owner tell us a bit about the history of the farm and the different kinds of lavender planted there and about all the neat places his insurance company won't let him take the tours anymore. :-(( I wanted to go see those places!
It was even smokier this morning than yesterday and the wind was blowing, not good for putting out forest fires! It wasn't very windy when we got to Concho, I wonder if the fire is making it's own weather? This is what it looked like towards St. Johns.
We got rain today! On the way home it rained on us and we even got a bit here in town. We could see lightning in the distance, which wasn't good. Come on rain, the forest fires need you, but no lightning to start more fires!
Here's the herb tins I got today and the cookbook. I just love the little tins!
Highway 191 was closed late this afternoon. I thought with all the moisture we got this winter we wouldn't have to worry about fires this summer, guess I was wrong!
That's part of the cemetery above, I couldn't get a shot of all of it, it's covered in cedar trees. Here's the headstone of Richard Reeder. I'm not sure of the exact true story of what happened to him, but apparently he was shot and killed because of a disagreement with another Floy resident. The story is that the shooter hung himself while in jail waiting trial. Such a loss! We think the grave of the person that shot him is in this same cemetery. There is one with the same name anyway. They have been peacefully residing here for a long time now. Too bad they couldn't get along this well when they were alive!
There is an auction coming up this week and we stopped and checked it out today. Some cool things but nothing I want bad enough to sit and bid on it! This little car tickles my fancy, it's just so cute! I can see myself running around town in it! But, then again, I don't want it that bad! 
These wagons are so cute!
There was a bite in the air this morning. The thermometer said 50, but it feels colder! I hope my poor tomatoes and peppers can stand the cold and wind! It's another windy day, I chuckle as I am reminded of Dad and what he would say when the wind didn't want to give it up for the summer. He'd say, "I remember back in the summer of '37 the wind blew all summer long and they had to cut the hay by lantern light at night. That was the only time the wind died down enough not to blow the hay away and this summer is looking just like the summer of '37!" Hey Dad, maybe we are going to have another "Summer of '37"!
I scanned in two of John's scratchboards and cleaned them up today. Takes me forever to get them ready, especially the ones with color, for some reason it's hard to get the colors right and the black sometimes looks colored, too. I think it's all the black makes the scanner go wonky. I used some Photoshop techniques I learned in Jessica Sprague's classes today, they helped make the editing easier!
Since the plane crashed into our high school last week I kind of cringe when I hear an airplane go by overhead. I'm coming to agree with Z. George who hated airplanes flying over his ranch. Roy said when an airplane would fly over the ranch, Z. George would step outside and shake his fist at the plane and say "The killingly mutts, they're going to drop a monkey wrench out of the plane and hit a man on the cranium." One of the boys would reply, "Well Pa, they have a right to fly over this ranch." His reply to that was always "I own this ranch from the center of the earth to the outer reaches of the atmosphere." The boys would come back with "Doesn't that make your ranch shaped something like a toothpick?"
Then we stopped at Iguana's Imports, we love that store and just found out they are closing! So sad! Not much was left, but we did find a bedside table to go in the attic.
Then we stopped at Lowe's and got flowers. Jessie and I had a good time browsing the isles, looking at all the beautiful flowers and picking the ones we wanted to take home to plant.
Then over to Wal Mart to pick up a few things, then Little Caesars for pizza, then on to Jessie's. After lunch, Susan showed us the road that goes to the Floy Cemetery and John pulled up the sign and we loaded it. He's remaking it with the correct name. I snapped a photo of the remains of an old house in the town. 
Stopped at Mom's on the way home to leave off the headgates John made her and pick up the grass clippings she saved for my compost. We were both tired by the time we got home, whew it was a busy day!
John tried rowing with his feet up to keep his pants dry, it didn't work and he ended up getting wet. 